Fellas my MS251 has met its match. This stuff is absolutely brutalizing my saw. Biggest Osage I have ever seen. I committed a heinous crime by cutting it up for firewood. Main trunk 16" round, 40 foot long, and straight as an arrow. Unfortunately it's in my way and I don't have a good way to get it out of the forest except in pieces. I can barely lift the 16" rounds.
That is a biggun and I’m sure you are wishing for a little bigger saw! Look like you are gettin er done though!
I swapped to a chain with taller rakers and that did it. You really need to take slow nibbles with this stuff. This is a little over half the hoard. Called it quits for today. I ended up leaving the bottom 20 feet of the tree for future milling purposes. It's airborne so I have a couple years at least. Was an interesting project. The tree was parallel to my trail but then the top half crossed over the desired path and hung up on a maple about 30 feet up. What I did was cut a notch underneath where the tension b/w the top and bottom halves of the Osage met and then backcut the top which caused it to drop. I then took 16" rounds off the bottom and worked my way up slowly. Basically took little bites as the kerf would close up. Kept removing weight from it. Finally I got everything except the top portion: You can see here if I just cut the piece on the right then the vertical piece would be at (small) risk of coming back at me. So what I did was cut it 90% to weaken it mostly and then put the winch on it and yanked it to break it. Then from there I yanked the vertical portion until it flopped onto the ground and the rest was a cake walk. A fun and engaging puzzle where if you make the wrong move you die. Definitely at the 80th percentile of my skillset. I've only been using a chainsaw for a couple years and this took me all day to figure out. I have a new problem: That mark is where my X27 bounced straight off it. It laughed off my 6ton splitter. I can't afford to rent a splitter for this amount. I'm uninterested in attempting with a maul. Might have to noodle it down. IDK. These rounds are insane. they're 16" and easily 120 lbs. I can barely lift them. I did put the moisture meter on them, basically tried to keep it in a single ring to approximate the correct way of measuring a split and read 17% so these are either mostly or fully seasoned which is awesome.
MY #1 favorite firewood. Great burning firewood and can sit in your firewood stack for years and stay rot free.
Back in the day, Dad and I worked up a lot of Hedge with McCulloch 10-10's. His big saw was a Mac Super Pro 81. Great score!
Hey metalcuttr he's living on the hedge! Got a good chuckle out of me...of course! Nice stuff there cezar. My holy grail score. And I love the thread title!
