What did you accomplish today?

[cannabineer]

Wedges.

Expound, elaborate and give us the skinny please

 

[Chunky Stool]

Not too bad, lost power for a whole day and then intermittent until yesterday. Creek didn't flow but only got 4.5 in instead of 7. The wind was brutal, 25-30 with 60+mph gusts. Lots of fallen and ruined trees. I'm going to have to drop my last Monterey Pine I planted 35 yr ago; it lost some major branches and with pine blister it won't survive in the long run. It's about 70 ft tall and I'm trying to figger out how I can drop it myself lol

How’s your herb garden?
I lost power for almost 8 hours and got PM on fan leaves and a few stems.
it took a couple weeks to get rid of it completely.
Had to do a full defoliation of large leaves.
What a pain!

 

[solakani]

Expound, elaborate and give us the skinny please

Wedges are designed to do two things: (1) keep your bar and chain from getting pinched when making the back cut (or felling cut); and (2), tip the tree over in the direction you want it to fall.

Using wedges to fell trees - UW-Madison Extension Forestry

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[DarkWeb]

Expound, elaborate and give us the skinny please

 

[cannabineer]

Wedges are designed to do two things: (1) keep your bar and chain from getting pinched when making the back cut (or felling cut); and (2), tip the tree over in the direction you want it to fall.

Using wedges to fell trees - UW-Madison Extension Forestry

tweetshareemailWedges can help control the direction of trees falling even when they are leaning the wrong way. In a previous article, I talked about my use of wedges for bucking logs. In this article I willRead More...

woodlandinfo.org

Thanks! I’ve never handled a chainsaw.

 

[raratt]

Wedges.

Not really needed, a good undercut will guide it, as long as it isn't leaning or lopsided. .

 

[Singlemalt]

How’s your herb garden?
I lost power for almost 8 hours and got PM on fan leaves and a few stems.
it took a couple weeks to get rid of it completely.
Had to do a full defoliation of large leaves.
What a pain!

too early to tell: I have some 2 month old OG Kush in a tent; because it gets cold here at nite I have them on 18hr light from midnite to 6pm; the power went out around 5 am that first day so they had a 5 hr day and a 24+ nite; then intermittent for 2 days. If the power stays stable I may avoid any problems but we'll see

 

[DarkWeb]

Not really needed, a good undercut will guide it, as long as it isn't leaning or lopsided. .

No you don't always, but it will also help guide the tree and reduce a chance of a roll which can be very dangerous.

 

[Singlemalt]

Not really needed, a good undercut will guide it, as long as it isn't leaning or lopsided. .

it is now lol,and the trunk at cut level is is over 3.5 ft diameter. It's close to house and my mom's granny cabin. Biggest trees I've ever cut down were about 2.5 ft dia and not over 30-40 ft.
edit: the fallen branches are on the side I wish it to fall, so now it's weight wants to go towards both our places

 

[raratt]

No you don't always, but it will also help guide the tree and reduce a chance of a roll which can be very dangerous.

Discretion is the better part of valor. I felled a 125 foot doug fir, but it was symmetrical and on pretty much level ground. I was prepared to leapfrog backwards if it went sideways.

 

[DarkWeb]

it is now lol,and the trunk at cut level is is over 3.5 ft diameter. It's close to house and my mom's granny cabin. Biggest trees I've ever cut down were about 2.5 ft dia and not over 30-40 ft.

Yeah that's a big boy definitely. Do you have a saw?

 

[raratt]

it is now lol,and the trunk at cut level is is over 3.5 ft diameter. It's close to house and my mom's granny cabin. Biggest trees I've ever cut down were about 2.5 ft dia and not over 30-40 ft.
edit: the fallen branches are on the side I wish it to fall, so now it's weight wants to go towards both our places

Time to call the tree guy, I wouldn't mess with one close to buildings.

 

[Singlemalt]

Can you drop it in sections? I think this is why arborists invest in trucks with lifty things.

I'm almost 71 yrs old and I don't like heights. I'll tackle just about anything with my feet on the ground (the ground pounder's credo). It would be around $1500 to pay for it.

 

[Singlemalt]

Yeah that's a big boy definitely. Do you have a saw?

yeah I have saws, just thinking as to whether this is beyond my pay grade lol

 

[cannabineer]

I'm almost 71 yrs old and I don't like heights. I'll tackle just about anything with my feet on the ground (the ground pounder's credo). It would be around $1500 to pay for it.

Yeah you are dealing with considerable stored energy.

 

[Bareback]

Some years back a part of my fence blew down. I replaced all the wooden posts that broke with the metal postmaster posts. They cost around $30 a piece but I'll never have to replace them.

This isn't my fence just a picture I found online. I'm too lazy to go out in the rain and take a picture.

Those look just like the ones I stole from the the stop signs around the time traffic accident rates began to increase. Hmmmm I wonder if they were connected.

 

[DarkWeb]

Discretion is the better part of valor. I felled a 125 foot doug fir, but it was symmetrical and on pretty much level ground. I was prepared to leapfrog backwards if it went sideways.

I've dropped a bunch, I'm no pro. I've seen some crazy shit.....logging is big up here. I'm good friends with a retired crazy mf'er. Older guy jumped out of helicopters in Vietnam and was a tree climber. I work on his 34' Ford for him. Super cool dude and still looking for that adrenaline

 

[DarkWeb]

yeah I have saws, just thinking as to whether this is beyond my pay grade lol

It would be a good idea to have it taken care of.

 

[natureboygrower]

@Singlemalt do you have a come along? I've guided some leaning large crowned hardwoods with them before. You'd still have to get the rope up the tree a little bit though. It would help guide it in the direction you wanted it to drop. 70' is no joke! No matter how straight up and down it is, the pucker factor would be in full effect til that one was on the ground.

 

[cannabineer]

Those look just like the ones I stole from the the stop signs around the time traffic accident rates began to increase. Hmmmm I wonder if they were connected.

Officer thinking. Stop sign poles will hold the fence. Yield sign posts will fail, but gracefully.