Chainsaw Bar Length?

[vtsnowedin]

Last weekend the trees started to leaf out and I noticed two more dead trees that need to be cut down. No reason they should have died, the largest one is not even 6 inches in diameter and not very tall. I can only guess that lightning hit the trees even though they are shorter than surrounding trees. :confused3:



Later,
Dan

If they were shorter then the surrounding trees then they may have just lost the race for sunlight.

 

[Egon]

Ah, you beat me to it!

Axe works too!

 

[TomSeller]

You need to saws so when your neighbor shows up you can put him to work

 

[peterc38]

You don't need two saws.

I hope my wife never reads this. Although I was up to 7 saws at one point, I have now reduced the herd to 3

Sometimes it ain't about need, sometimes it's about want. :laughing:

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I've been told a man just can't own too many chainsaws.

 

[PoorPlowboy]

In my experience, which isn't much, is that a minimum of two saws are required. The smaller one for the last half of the day, and to cut the larger one out when you pinch the bar.

 

[turnkey4099]

Axe works too!

Years ago I was working on a clear-cut of a burnover. I was the only one who had cutting rights there.

Rolled in one day and found a tree down that shouldn't have been. Also found a "beavered out" notch obviously done with an axe where the perp had chopped his saw free.

He had made away with one small tree (leaving all the mess for me to clean up) apparently before sticking his saw.

Harry K

 

[dmccarty]

If they were shorter then the surrounding trees then they may have just lost the race for sunlight.

That is a good thought and much better than a lightning strike. We have lost quite a few trees to lightning so that was my first thought but loss of light could be it. Flip side is that the trees would get a fair amount of light from the east and west and very little from the south...

Later,
Dan

 

[JDgreen227]

Not trying to hijack the thread, but what dmccarty says about trees dying with no apparent cause reminds me of the sugar maple in my side yard, it was about 25 years old and 16" across at the base when cut down, about 8 years ago I noticed many of the limbs were dying for no apparent reason, the limb dieback got progressively worse until close to two thirds of the tree was dead. when I cut it down two years ago I found no hollowing of the trunk and no sign of disease. The only reason I could think it might have died is because back in 2002 and 2003, we hired an excavating contractor to come in and dig a new foundation hole, although the hole was at least 25' from the tree trunk, a LOT of heavy dump truck and front end loader traffic crossed dozens of times over at least a third of the roots and I suspect soil compression was the reason for the dieback.

 

[vtsnowedin]

That is a good thought and much better than a lightning strike. We have lost quite a few trees to lightning so that was my first thought but loss of light could be it. Flip side is that the trees would get a fair amount of light from the east and west and very little from the south...

Later,
Dan

I expect that it is the total light received in a summer that determines if enough photosynthesis can occur for the tree to turn a profit. Saplings growing up in a cut or blow down clearing in a forest have to grow really fast and straight to beat out the competition as only the one to reach the canopy height first will win out and all the other contestants will wither and die. Survival of the fittest don't you know.