Just a Little Fruit Tree They Said

My dad said this little old lady from church wanted an medium sized apple tree taken down.
Show up at 5 planning on being done by dark. With the 42cc saw and my dad's little greenworks 40volt battery saw.

What we found though was something a little more substantial.
Large maple. Atleast it's far from the houses or power lines. And she said it can take as long as we need to. Gotta love free and little old lady's.

Yep she came down all right. Put a 1.5 hours into it tonight. Will be another week end I figure to get it done. My dad and I will split the wood 50/50. Should be fine and dandy for winter 17/18.

Wood Wules said:

Nice job with a 42cc. I assume 16in bar. What is the diameter at the bottom?

I wonder what kind of fruit she was getting off it.

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Nope that saw is my father's. Pro Mac McCullough he got of Craig's list for $150 heck of a deal. 70cc and 20" bar. We weren't far from the lady's house. When we saw the tree he went back and got it.
The tree measures 35.5" through the middle.

Wood Wules said:

That makes more sense. You should take more pictures as you work it. What kind of splitter do you have? Each piece cut up must weight a lot.

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Will do. Probaby won't get to it again for close to a week. Regular jobs and all that.
Don't have a name for the splitter. My grand pap made it 35 years ago. He took scrap from the steel mill he worked at and welded it up. No motor then it connected to his tractor PTO. Now all the big tractors are gone my dad hadn't used it for a while just burning coal. Then last year I decided to start burning wood be pulled it out of the woods and rebuilt the cylinder, valve and pump, and connected a 6hp motor.
Sorry for the story book, grandpa passed away a month ago, and I'm of my proud of that ugly machine.

AmbDrvr253 said:

Wondering what kinda apples came off it.............

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I don't know she has been in that house since she was a kid in 1934. My guess is she just thought apple trees got old stopped producing and grew real big ha.

Splitting up the last of the big stuff. Snapped this picture.

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Haha. Quad ramps.
My father and I rolled it up ramps relatively easy. The hardest part was keeping our halves from falling back on the ground.
Still wasn't easy, it's amazing how heavy green wood is. The stuff was wet too, you could see the water dripping out as the wedge went in.

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No handles and these maples seem to hold a lot of water. They were splippy, and sometimes the bark can just peel off where you are holding them.
I couldn't have done them myself at least not without hitting the gym for a few months first.

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