Trees all falling the wrong direction

[Slamfire]

I had a hung up tree once, and managed to rotate the bottom spinnig the top out of the tree it was hung up in. My heart was in my throat the whole time. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I think I'll just have a load of cull logs delivered for fire wood usage. My woods are full of beetle killed yellow pines and are too dangerous to fool around in. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Slamfire]

I had a hung up tree once, and managed to rotate the bottom spinnig the top out of the tree it was hung up in. My heart was in my throat the whole time. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
I think I'll just have a load of cull logs delivered for fire wood usage. My woods are full of beetle killed yellow pines and are too dangerous to fool around in. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Farwell]

I lost around 50 Red Pine trees 2 years ago to bark beetle. I had them cut before they became dangerous. Now the bark beetle has started killing my Jack Pine. I thought that Jack Pine was immune to most critters but I guess not. I am really surprised at how quick the Jack Pine went from a healthy looking tree to a skeleton. I dropped one the other day and it was very dried out and the branches broke very easily. Won't be long and I will probably loose all my trees. So far my Maple and Oak seem okay.
Farwell

 

[Farwell]

I lost around 50 Red Pine trees 2 years ago to bark beetle. I had them cut before they became dangerous. Now the bark beetle has started killing my Jack Pine. I thought that Jack Pine was immune to most critters but I guess not. I am really surprised at how quick the Jack Pine went from a healthy looking tree to a skeleton. I dropped one the other day and it was very dried out and the branches broke very easily. Won't be long and I will probably loose all my trees. So far my Maple and Oak seem okay.
Farwell

 

[Slamfire]

Mine were attacked after a 2 year drought. Have you had dry weather?

 

[Slamfire]

Mine were attacked after a 2 year drought. Have you had dry weather?

 

[Farwell]

We have not had an excessive amount of rain or snow in my area of Michigan over the past several years and in most cases the rain fall has been below normal but I don't think that it has been bad enough to call it a drought.
I think that with all of my Red Pine gone the bark beetles have found a new source of food, Jack Pine. So far I have only found one Jack Pine out of around 60 that have been attacked.
Farwell

 

[bugstruck]

Here's my situation. I can't get the one I was dropping today to fall /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I made two decisions on dropping a tree today that were such a comedy in errors it was pathetic. Actually I'm laughing at myself still. Put the weight on the throw line and on the third try got a good line up over the branch of a 8" x 60' pine. The throw line went over an adjacent trees dead limb and I saw an opportunity. That will feed the rope better on the pull back and I can surely just tension things a bit and break the dead limb off, right? Wrong!! Rope went up and over fine and I made a second ingenious decision to do a slip knot similiar to an improved clinch after passing on a knot that would have gotten me out of this every time. That was mistake # 2. Kept the thow line on the main line as a tag just in case the slip knot didn't want to free itself, if I need it to. That didn't work either as that good ole clinch did just what it was supposed to, locked down tight when I went to tension and break the adjacent dead branch off. I can tell you that 1 1/2" dead branch holds that whole tree off the ground with the tractor pulling the trunk away and 4' or better off the ground. Well I pulled it two directions 3 times and it's still a standin. May be for a good long while too. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif I was at the barely reasonable danger limits of tree and tractor and decided it looked just fine where it was. No sense in turning one calamity into another. So part of the mission is accomplished, it can't fall on the boat anymore. That's about all I accomplished today after 5:00 pm. Should have stayed on the indoor projects as they were going fine. The inside work was wood somebody else cut down, metal, and drywall finishing. I should stick to what I'm good at. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif Roping trees obviously isn't my strong suit. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif