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Cutting up very bad tree.

rockyridgefarm

rockyridgefarm

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The cut end is the second one up from where I cut it off at the stump.

I got about 3/4 of the tree cut and split into this wagon. It is 15 feet long, 7 feet wide and 2.5 foot tall
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It's not as bad as one I cut up years ago. The one I cut had BEEN HIT BY LIGHTNING and split down the middle. The tree was so big my 16 inch chain saw bar could only go half way threw each split. I cut one side and it didn't fall so I used a wedge to make it fall. It spun on it self and fell up hill and hit my chain saw and broke the carb off of it
 
I would say you are exactly right , a nail would have been over more rings , looks just like a bullet in there somewhere .
 
Yes it was and glad it killed the chain saw not me. The chain saw I had was an old David Bradley that I picked up for $25 and it was big and heavy
 
trees are acrobatic. I've had them flip, jump. hop, splinter & make just about any maneuver you can name. The most spectacular was when I cut a big Beech & it fell across the holler so both ends of tree were level & about 10 feet off the ground in the middle. Then I cut another big Beech so it fell in the middle of the downed Beech & broke it in two. The top of the downed Beech then flew into the air & flipped over 1 1/2 times & landed on its own stump. That flying top easily weighed a ton & seemed to fly in slow motion.
 
just asked because of all the fuss about cutting down this tree with the centre rotten. need to look up and see which way the tree is leaning
and make your notch accordingly.i have cut a few like that and thought nothing of it , just always keep in mind where u are going to jump to
if something goes wrong. my dad was a tree faller for over 30 years every winter in the deep snow, with his homelite saws all through.the
last saw he bought was the 922 homelite and i have it now.i even have the C9 he bought in 1964. he started out with a crosscut by hand .
he fell a 48 tree in 1948 by hand. the only accident he had was in 1979 when he broke his leg in a falling accident, after that he retired
from falling tree's. he started falling tree's in his twenties. plus it was manditary to wear your hard hat, which were aluminum i still
remember. and the smell of that bush from the truck when he came home which was not very often during the winter. i would just go and sit in
the truck just to have the bush smell.
 
I guess I miss all the fun. In all the years felling trees watching as a kid and later doing the sawing. I have never had trees do all those things you guys tell about. the most interesting one was in the midddle of the field. I was dead for about 2 years and when I cut it. IT just sat there with the notch cut out and most all cut off. the tree was about 56 inches across and was using a 28 inch bar. It settled down on the saw. As I was going to get the other saw to cut the first one out dad said it cracked. I siad it did I didn;t hear it with the saw running. then it just tipped over in slow motion spent all winter sawing and burning that tree. Actually spent about half of the next winter cutting and burning one half of the trunk. IT split in half as it fell. a 14 foot half was about all I could lift with a 6036 Skytrac to load it on a truck frame to haul up. buned the top one winter and the trunk the next.
 
(quoted from post at 19:16:44 11/14/22) just asked because of all the fuss about cutting down this tree with the centre rotten. need to look up and see which way the tree is leaning
and make your notch accordingly.i have cut a few like that and thought nothing of it , just always keep in mind where u are going to jump to
if something goes wrong. my dad was a tree faller for over 30 years every winter in the deep snow, with his homelite saws all through.the
last saw he bought was the 922 homelite and i have it now.i even have the C9 he bought in 1964. he started out with a crosscut by hand .
he fell a 48 tree in 1948 by hand. the only accident he had was in 1979 when he broke his leg in a falling accident, after that he retired
from falling tree's. he started falling tree's in his twenties. plus it was manditary to wear your hard hat, which were aluminum i still
remember. and the smell of that bush from the truck when he came home which was not very often during the winter. i would just go and sit in
the truck just to have the bush smell.
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Rustred, I don't see "all the fuss" about cutting the tree down. What I see is a drawing of attention to the extra care that anyone should take when cutting a dead tree. A few "words to the wise".
 
I know a man who should have looked up when he was cutting a tree. A branch broke off and killed him, a widowmaker.
 
When I cut a tree like that
I always have a buddy with me
one looks up and the other runs the saw
and have a go to spot in case something happens
 
I'd carefully split the blue stain and find out what's in that chunk of wood. It looks blue enough to be copper jacketed bullets. I ran a few of them through my band mill. They cut a lot better than 16d nails!!
 
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