Yesterday I spent most of the day cleaning up the mess I made...
I started by taking my truck and flatbed trailer into town where my big house is and meeting with my tenants there.
They had gotten approval to remove a large cherry tree from the association (I approved also, but I wanted the wood for my smoker).
The tree was pretty close to 50' tall and the stump was over 15". We used my 20" MS290 FarmBoss, and his 14" Stihl (I'm getting one of those!).
I used all of the chainsaw skills I learned from Mike (LstInThot) and the results were almost professional (Thank you Mike). We used a rope and occassionally a come-along to control each main branch as we dropped them to prevent damage to houses, cars, and other trees. We were 100% successful. I also ended up trimming a crepe myrtle with a drastic cutback to reign in it's growth.
It took less than 2 hours to cut it up into scrap, and save piles. It took another 2 hours to load & tie down the scrap on the flat bed, and the good stuff into the bed of my truck. After a late lunch I got some seat time by unloading the trailer with my grapple I got all the branches in 2 loads and dropped them on a burn pile.
After that I piled all the good wood near my bucking area and I burned off the rest of the gas in my saw chopping it up into small chunks perfect for my smoker.
It was not a lot of seat time, but it sure was nice and efficient seat time. :thumbsup:
Be well,
David
