Pilot
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- Joined
- Nov 20, 2004
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- Location
- Oregon
- Tractor
- JD 770, Yanmar 180D, JD 420 (not running), had a Kubota B6200
Roger is a very experienced logger, former Clackamas county "logger of the year" in a big timber county. He has done a little logging for me and he volunteered to take down some trees that I wanted down before the winter storms hit, as they were a danger to the house.
He's a little embarrassed, as things didn't work out quite as planned.
32 inch Doug-fir, 100 ft. tall, 90 ft. from the house and 20 ft. or so from the pole barn.
Fired up his saw, nice undercut, checked his aim, started his back cut, didn't like the alignment, so moved his saw and started cutting again. Got in a few inches, and pounded in some wedges. A little more cutting, more pounding, more cutting, more pounding and eventually it started to move right toward Roger! I hollered, he didn't hear me but he moved fast. And from where I was, it looked like it was headed for the side of the barn.
Well, it couldn't have been better. Didn't hurt anyone and just missed the barn, lined up perfectly for removal.
Take a look at the pics. One shows the cutting error and it broke where he didn't leave a high enough step and enough hinge. The other shot shows how close it came to the barn. All we did was cut limbs to make it easier to pick them up; none have been moved from where they fell. Not shown is that the butt kicked back across the stump about 4 ft. Had it not kicked back, the longest, lowest limbs would have hit the barn but probably wouldn't have hurt it because it would have just been the ends of the limbs. As it was, it didn't touch it and the top fell about 3 ft. short of hitting my utility trailer.
The second and 3rd trees hit right where he was aiming.
He's a little embarrassed, as things didn't work out quite as planned.
32 inch Doug-fir, 100 ft. tall, 90 ft. from the house and 20 ft. or so from the pole barn.
Fired up his saw, nice undercut, checked his aim, started his back cut, didn't like the alignment, so moved his saw and started cutting again. Got in a few inches, and pounded in some wedges. A little more cutting, more pounding, more cutting, more pounding and eventually it started to move right toward Roger! I hollered, he didn't hear me but he moved fast. And from where I was, it looked like it was headed for the side of the barn.
Well, it couldn't have been better. Didn't hurt anyone and just missed the barn, lined up perfectly for removal.
Take a look at the pics. One shows the cutting error and it broke where he didn't leave a high enough step and enough hinge. The other shot shows how close it came to the barn. All we did was cut limbs to make it easier to pick them up; none have been moved from where they fell. Not shown is that the butt kicked back across the stump about 4 ft. Had it not kicked back, the longest, lowest limbs would have hit the barn but probably wouldn't have hurt it because it would have just been the ends of the limbs. As it was, it didn't touch it and the top fell about 3 ft. short of hitting my utility trailer.
The second and 3rd trees hit right where he was aiming.