Deerlope
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This may be a little off topic but why do you leave the stumps so high?
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Egon
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Is that a result of attending the
" Reske School of Directional Felling " /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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" Reske School of Directional Felling " /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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trlong
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Deerlope,
I don't usually leave the stumps that high. They're at that height only 'til I have time to trim them off. I cut them that high 'cause that's a steep slope and I could get a much better footing, and be ready to clear out to a safe spot, by standing, rather than bent or kneeling, should the trees start to drop toward me. When I get to it, I'll take a bigger saw and flush the stumps. Obviously I'm a novice at this. I'm trying to err on the side of safety.
Tom
I don't usually leave the stumps that high. They're at that height only 'til I have time to trim them off. I cut them that high 'cause that's a steep slope and I could get a much better footing, and be ready to clear out to a safe spot, by standing, rather than bent or kneeling, should the trees start to drop toward me. When I get to it, I'll take a bigger saw and flush the stumps. Obviously I'm a novice at this. I'm trying to err on the side of safety.
Tom
trlong
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Egon,
Unsure of the "Reske" reference but, obviously I slept through Tree Felling 101 /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.
Didn't mean to hijack this thread though.
Tom
Unsure of the "Reske" reference but, obviously I slept through Tree Felling 101 /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif.
Didn't mean to hijack this thread though.
Tom
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I don't usually leave the stumps that high. They're at that height only 'til I have time to trim them off. I cut them that high 'cause that's a steep slope and I could get a much better footing, and be ready to clear out to a safe spot, by standing, rather than bent or kneeling, should the trees start to drop toward me. When I get to it, I'll take a bigger saw and flush the stumps. Obviously I'm a novice at this. I'm trying to err on the side of safety.
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Mornin Tom,
Call it what you want, but I do the same thing as you. Just that little extra amount of time to clear out /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I usually try to get the tractor hooked onto it via 100 ft of 1" dia rope and soon as I see any movement Im back out to the tractor and givin a tug.
What you got there Tom, poplar???
scotty
I don't usually leave the stumps that high. They're at that height only 'til I have time to trim them off. I cut them that high 'cause that's a steep slope and I could get a much better footing, and be ready to clear out to a safe spot, by standing, rather than bent or kneeling, should the trees start to drop toward me. When I get to it, I'll take a bigger saw and flush the stumps. Obviously I'm a novice at this. I'm trying to err on the side of safety.
Tom
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Mornin Tom,
Call it what you want, but I do the same thing as you. Just that little extra amount of time to clear out /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I usually try to get the tractor hooked onto it via 100 ft of 1" dia rope and soon as I see any movement Im back out to the tractor and givin a tug.
What you got there Tom, poplar???
scotty
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Any way you could get up above and pull the butt end...or are the branches so intertangled that other trees would keep it put? Maybe a snatchblock on a tree above (note the return to topic!)
And thinking out of the box...I once had a birch hung up on a single poplar branch. A couple rounds from my 12ga sheared off the branch and the birch fell the rest of the way. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pete
And thinking out of the box...I once had a birch hung up on a single poplar branch. A couple rounds from my 12ga sheared off the branch and the birch fell the rest of the way. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Pete
Deerlope
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I wouldn't too excited about hanging them trees up cause I do it all the time. Last one was a soft maple a pretty rotten in the center. I notched it, cut it, and it came straight down and now I got a pinched saw. I put a choker on it up as high as I could reach and started winching. I got it off the stump and retrieved my saw. Must have had to winch it 20' before it would fall. I might add that the bugger was about 22" dia at the stump.
Deerlope
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I would hook a come-along up the hill some palce and pull it down that way.
Egon
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Musta been " A Marine "
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Tom,
How about a cant hook on the trunk and try twisting it out.
Another thing I have heard tell of. Place a snow shovel next to the butt end on the ground. Use the cant hook to put the butt on the snow shovel blade. If it doesn't happen automaticly you should be able to slide the butt along with the snow shovel.
Phil
How about a cant hook on the trunk and try twisting it out.
Another thing I have heard tell of. Place a snow shovel next to the butt end on the ground. Use the cant hook to put the butt on the snow shovel blade. If it doesn't happen automaticly you should be able to slide the butt along with the snow shovel.
Phil
