There's gotta be a Macgyver way to get most of the tree into your stacks. Maybe round by round on a leash with a log grapple, zip line style?
Biggest I dropped. Roughly a 36 maple. Too big for my taste. Just wait till u limb it and fine branches 6 ft down in the ground. Watch for the tension good job
I agree with Dennis, just start picking at it over the next year bit by bit. Soon it will be all or mostly cut up. I wouldn't be able able to sleep at night knowing that wood was laying there waiting to be cut up.
I'm sure I'll salvage the top of it, but the 15' or so of the main trunk that's spanning the creek/ditch is going to stay. The wood is too large and too far off the ground for me to easily and safely get. Even after I run through the 8 or so years of easily accessible wood that’s on my property, my neighbors have 2 acres of mostly dead ash trees I can have and then there’s 10 or so acres of woods behind that of mostly dead ash that I could ask about if needed. I guess I’m in a unique spot, a good 50% of my forest was ash and it’s all dead now. I probably shouldn’t post of a picture of the 30” ash tree that’s spanning the creek not 30 feet from this one that could have fallen on my deck that I took down last year. And there’s a 20” tree about 40 feet in the other direction that fell on its own and is all the way down in the creek. I don’t intend to mess with any of it, it’s just not worth my time when there’s dead trees nearby that are much easier and safer to harvest.
Ash is tough wood, witnessed by the fact that they make tool handles and baseball bats out of it. But that's kiln dried and finished. Leave that log out in the weather and bugs and it will be punk in a short time. I certainly understand your problem, but every problem has a solution. With all the great wooden headed minds here we'll get that sucker cut split and stacked in nothing flat! I think you're in the Cincinnati area, I'm in northern Kentucky with 3 big pro saws and time to kill! Let me know... Great work by the way!
