I hate vines. Can be a PITA to deal with but if the wood is nice i dont mind. Id've done the same for that wood and have!
I tend to see fruit trees grow like this a bit. The twist in it seems to be more profound as it dries up. I have some plum that I picked up last year springish time. I don’t have pics for it but I think I have a thread on it. It’s twisted so bad and dried up that I literally had to throw everything in the truck whole. No tools, it just wasn’t worth working on the chainsaw when it went full on dull on me. I guess I call this one an adventure because I don’t actually cut down trees very often. But I do happen to run into issues when I have everything the saw needs and no tools. Leads to improvisation and throwing it in the back of the truck and trailer. I had to leave some behind though because it was far too big to get in the back on my own. Too long as well. I bit off more than I could chew or rather the chainsaw....
Red Maple in todays splitting is doing the same. Nice & muddy in the low spots after Monday nights 8" snow, it was showing grass by the end of Tuesday.
So I was cutting this spruce at about 8500 ft and you can see that it has a pretty good lean. I had a cable attached to it so we could pull it over in the direction of the face cut and I left enough holding wood so that it would stay in place until pulled on. Well the BIL was on a hill and when he went to pull it over with his winch the weight of the tree started pulling his truck down the hill so he let up on the winch. But by this time he already broke the holding wood, so guess which direction the tree fell. Yep toward the lean. Just what I did not want. It was a pain but I did get it all out of there. This spruce was probably 90 to 100 ft tall.
