We checked on this job the afternoon we dropped the huge post oak... Small oak take down She had 2 pecan trees and I think a Black Locust to take down. Had a day off after nite shift, so we got the man lift rented and went to work. 1st pecan tree Take it from the top... Now the trunk cut... No problems so far. After the trunk was on the ground, went to cut left hand knot off. Something was in there. Dulled chain......put on a spare chain, moved lift and started on 2nd tree...
2nd tree... Had room beside the house to drop a couple whole limbs... These were towards the road... It had a big green briar vine that went almost to the top... Almost done. Then things got interesting. I had noticed the front yard was getting soft, as we loaded the 1st tree. So I went across the ditch a couple times, getting the logs from the 2nd tree to finish load...then the bottom fell out... The head of the street dept brought their tractor over and pulled me out. Didn't take long for the water to fill up the ditch... We did get a good load home... Pecan we have left to get when it dries out. We still have the other tree to take down and the neighbor gave us the OK to take 3 or 4 more like it in the hedge row. And another neighbor stopped by and want us to look at 2 trees she has...
First Jeff you work too hard!! Second your grass is green mine is white ish Third Great job stay safe
No sir, we piled it in the ditch above where the tractor was stuck, we also got the knotty piece of trunk cut into about 3 pieces. The city dept has already hauled it off...
Looks like fun Jeff. Wish i could get another picker job like that. Did you let Miss Carol got up in the lift? PITA getting stuck, Been there more than once with the PU. Interested to see the BL. Of course that would catch my attention.
