Here's a small tree for you

JimMorrissey · Feb 8, 2005

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Unless you are an experienced tree guy...leave it to the pros. Large tree removal is quite dangerous unless you've been trained property and are in good shape. You can get mauled in a milisecond. My grandfather and my father were "tree surgeons" as they use to be called. They've told me some horror stories (deaths) about very experienced workers of theirs. It's just not worth your arm or leg or life IMHO. I think your family would agree /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

JimR · Feb 8, 2005

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( Jim, that's quite a bit of work... probably heat the house for half a winter. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif Where did you get the cab? I'd like one for my 7360. )

It's a Sim's cab.

JimR · Feb 9, 2005

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I'm 51 and in pretty good physical shape and not overweight. I did climb this tree using a ladder and cut off most of the branches using an electric chainsaw. The two main branches were felled using my Husky 55 Rancher. Then I dropped the main tree using the Pro-Mac 650 with a 26 inch blade. It has been sitting for 18 years in my cellar. I never could have dropped this otherwise without taking something out. It was way too big and I had the wires on one side and the house on the other. I pulled the branches with a large marine rope that I have using the tractor and my daughter driving it. Where in Ma. do you live?

JimR · Feb 9, 2005

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( Jim,

Looks like you have some shrubs to remove too! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )

We are going to try and pull these to plant elsewhere. I wish I had my old backhoe now.

Birdhunter1 · Feb 9, 2005

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( My neighbor has a large willow (4'+ at the base) that the last ice storm took out about 50% of the upper branches - hope I can get my splitter done in time to help him. )

Why in the world would you want to split Willow wood?

turnkey4099 · Feb 9, 2005

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( ( My neighbor has a large willow (4'+ at the base) that the last ice storm took out about 50% of the upper branches - hope I can get my splitter done in time to help him. )

Why in the world would you want to split Willow wood? )

Errm...because it's there?? Levity aside, altho it is gofer wood, I heat my house with it and have for 20 years. Willow is probably bottom on the list of firewood but in my case it makes sense. It is the -only- wood that is available locally. I do occasionally score a maple or locust but those are rare. The other choices are pine/fir/tamarack and all of them require at least a 100 mile round trip for me as opposed to a few miles from my house. Yes I burn more. I usually run about 5-6 cord per year where with tamarack I might have used 4-5. Comes down to $ per btu. In my case Willow wins hands down.

Harry K

EastTexFrank · Feb 9, 2005

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That's a lotta work.

Last summer we had a huge oak at the bottom of the yard come down in a summer storm. It took out a 50' section of fence and 2 other trees on the way down. I got it all cleaned up except for the bottom 20' or so because my 18" chainsaw was totally outmatched by the 4' trunk. I had to invite a friend from Dallas through for the week-end with his big saw to finish it off. He went home with a trailer load of firewood and came back for more. All in all, it took me 2 weeks of part time work to get it all cut, cleaned up and burned. It really hurt to put so much good wood in the burning pit but we don't use wood except in the smoker and there were so many trees down around here, you couldn't give firewood away, even cut and split.

You obviously worked a lot harder at it than I did to get it done in that timeframe and have a lot more nerve than I have. I don't know if I would have tackled any standing timber that big, that close to the house. With my luck .....????

Good job.

JazzDad · Feb 9, 2005

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You ran out of daylight, or you would have also dug out the stump? By hand? With a trowel? OK, I will admit it was a pretty good day's work. But tomorrow- try to do better! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

JimR · Feb 9, 2005

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I ran out of daylight. I had one more cut to make and decided to call it quits. Now it's going to snow and all the hard work is going to be buried under it for a little while. Here's the nightime shot. This is a picture of the large trunk after I dissected it all which ways. You can see the rot in the far piece.

penokee · Feb 9, 2005

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Jim -Nice job, monster tree, but where's the Racoons, Squirrels and Birds going to live - their hollowed out Wildlife tree home is gone? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
penokee