Firewood and an excavator with thumb

My neighbor Had three trees to cut down. I promised I would do it for him he said I could have the wood. He doesn't have a large chainsaw and doesn't burn. My other neighbors son dropped off his excavator and help me push the trees over after I made a bottom cut and left the big thick hinge to help drop them. All of the log shown in the pictures were lifted with the excavator and move several hundred feet to a processing area. This morning I went out and spent an hour scraping off poison ivy vines before I did any more cuts
I don't have any pictures of dropping the trees cause I was busy cutting and my friends was working the excavator. Sorry. I've use this excavator plenty of times but only once before to hold lives while I'm cutting them . I did help him on a job where he had a drop 100 Pinetree's and we pushed them over and chipped them up with the excavator

Here are pics of the trees that I dropped in a little while I'll go out and use the excavator to hold them in the air while I cut rounds.
I'll post more pictures of the excavator holding the wood for me to cut when I go out later. The larger of the oaks and they're all Oaks is about 36 inches in diameter. The last pic is the smaller diameter branches that I left for my neighbor. I've got the excavator till Tuesday to play around with

 

Nice fun toys to play with!

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yup lift log and cut waist height! no need to fingerprint them all!

 

Nice pile of btu's right thar! It's always nice to have big machinery to lend a helping hand.. er arm!

 

Those little excavators are awesome for wood handling and especially with the thumb!! Nice pile o wood too!!

 

Nice logs! Awesome score!

 

Ok just came in, all logs are cut up
Here's some pics
I cut the logs on a hill with heavy mulch
Put one solid log at the bottom to act as a stop
The next log would be slightly uphill from the stop log. Didn't want them rolling away!

 

I tried to stand on the uphill side while I cut. The log could drop and roll down and away from me. Very comfortable way to cut big stuff. I only had to use a peavey to roll the logs earlier to get the poison ivy vines off.

The bucket was almost 38 inches wide so I had to reposition bucket to get the last cut in the center done

 

More of the same working my way up the hill

The last pic is lifting and cutting the stop log at the bottom

 

Finally all done. I am wiped out! It's 80 and super humid here and I'm no spring chicken either!
Still have to clean the excavator good. The cab is full of chips

Pic of all wood cut up. One big knarly log in front will be put to the side and not split

 

A good day's job well done, I'd say. Time for a cold one, or two

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I've often thought of adding a mechanical thumb to my backhoe no hydraulics. But I don't think I'd use it enough. If I was buying a new backhoe for my tractor it would have a thumb. But I bought used
I use the forks the most. Don't get me wrong the backhoe is great to have, but mostly it's a counter weight for the forks with occasional digging. Plus I can always borrow this excavator

 

Nice job Mike
Your going to get a lota nice splits outa those puppys :stacke::stacke::stacke:

 

Now you just need to get one of those saw/splitter processor heads for that excavator

 

J. Dirt those are really expensive. I'll tell the guy who owns the excavator about it.
Oops he doesn't burn wood

 

Haha but he could sell wood....

 

J. Dirt This is a pic of him bringing wood to me, from a job after Hurricane Sandy