I am taking the rest of the week off, and hope to at least start assembling it.I was curious how you were doing with your mill... Now I know the answer is "not at all"!
I am taking the rest of the week off, and hope to at least start assembling it.I was curious how you were doing with your mill... Now I know the answer is "not at all"!
It will be taken down in due time. Part of clearing some of my property. If it falls now it's now going to hit anything. It's very much like the one I pulled down by hand. Pretty soft.As I said before; that isn't the one which you need to worry about. It's hung in the other trees pretty good, and since it's a poplar will shed it's limbs then slowly deteriorate. The maple looks rotten and has been dead for a while, based on the lack of small limbs and the mushrooms on what's left of the bark. It's also free standing, and can come down in any direction, probably in large chunks.
Not enough room to move it once hooked. Part of the problem.you can hook a long chain to the bottom of the tree to the tractor and slide the bottom out until the tree top falls out of the other tree and slips down it to the ground. If doing that you have to make sure the tree is not wedged in the dirt and the top starts toppling over. I had that happen to me but luckily never hit the tractor.
Other ways is with the power saw but it is to dangerous if you haven done it before. You cut 4 foots junks off the bottom until the bottom actually end up so close to the tree that it is hung in. When cutting these 4 foot chunks of the bottom of the tree you have to cut the underside of the truck or the saw will jam. The tree trunk will fall towards the tree it is hung on as you cut off the 4 foot chunks. Here is the catch.... With the butt end close to the tree that it is hung up in the tree will be leaning towards you and the top will topple back towards you. You have to be ready. I did it many times but it is a dangerous thing to be doing and not recommended unless you have lots of experience doing this sort of thing.
That's a lot of rings to count.Trying out the new ms462. There is a lot of oak wilt going through the area now. Quite a few are 180yrs old. Interesting when counting the rings, the first 100yrs the things were only 4" dia or so, then take off to 30".
I have what they call a tree farm here, they are field grown and most likely were at one point an off site species, Loblolly pine, but at 80 ish feet tall are not christmas trees!Nah, Christmas trees are field grown and an off site species. Height is what I’m honestly thinking of most of the stuff I thin is about the same weight as well as diameters is the east coast mature forests. Take our hardwoods out here they’re taller and larger diameter in about 45 to 50 years you can have a mature Red Alder out of a root rot patch with a life span of around 80 maybe 90 they can put some height on with a nasty sweep.
What pressure do you run in them?1. They are radial tires; they pretty much always look a bit low.
2. They both look low, when there's a half core of oak on the forks. lol
SR