Getting ready to drop a large Sugar Maple at the corner of the house

I wish I would have been able to come over and help ,it is going to be a while before I run a saw. Nice job and I hope the Mrs. is doing well

 

Nice job sir! Glad all went well. That is a big ol gnarly thing. Lots of SM's around here like that. Yard trees in urban areas. Towns occasionally take one down. I seldom take the big trunk wood as its a PITA to process for me.

Never knew that notch type had a name. Most of the trees i fell i use that method.

 

I was able to get a few rounds cut off of the butt end and noodled them so I could get them in the truck to put them over at one of the storage / processing areas. Some of the noodled chunks are at the right edge of the first picture.



The stuff at the left end of the pallets is 1/4 cord of fresh cut Sugar Maple. The electric company had marked several trees to be cut near the HV lines that run back through our woods. The tree cutters showed up this morning and I took the day off work to watch them. They took down 3 large Cottonwood trees (several other regular size trees also). They had three boom trucks, one of them with BIG boonie tires. The first two Cottonwoods came down without incident, but the third that was leaning over the HV lines didn't go quite as planned. No injuries and no damaged lines, but the tree fell 90* from the direction they were trying to take it. Grading the stump afterwards got them a D- from me... He had cut completely through the hinge on the one side halfway through the tree. I should have gotten pix. I'll go back out tomorrow and get some. I came walking over and was chuckling and said "you just dodged a bullet there". The whole crew was around the stump doing a "post mortem" of the cut and there were no smiles...

Anyway, while they were working over by the lines I dropped a 12" Sugar Maple that's been in the way for years over by the big barn drive, CSS, and cleaned up all the brush. That's where the 1/4 cord on the pallet came from.

Here's a couple pix of their crew.



The three largest trees just to the right of the cone are the Cottonwoods that got dropped. The one leaning towards the truck was the almost disaster. We may skid them over to the sawmill and cut em up for stickers... or just let them lay... That's our house in the background, about 100 yards through the woods. I already forget how high up the bucket reached on the boonie tire truck, but it had an extra elevator at the bottom that was fully extended. I'm not sure if I would want to ride that thing or not... It was up there and I know it always looks WAY higher when you're at the top...

Hoping to get back to noodling some more chunks off the big Maple over the next couple days. I need to get that eyesore cleaned up before too long.

 

More Maple chunks headed for the sawmill. Our mill is small but some of these trunk chunks may have some interesting grain so I just gotta see in there...