I took out a few hazard trees this past weekend and they might just yield enough wood for 2016/17.
First two are a couple of little alders that are growing out and over my garage, but you can't really tell from the angle I took the pictures from. I put a pull line in one and rigged a 3 to 1 progress capture pulley to pull it away from the garage and felled it from the ground. The other one I climbed and topped because it had too much trunk lean towards the garage.
The other tree was a Bigleaf Maple that had a lot of crown dieback and was randomly dropping dead limbs. So it was either watch all that wood rot for the next few years or put it to good use. This one was around 100' and 40-42" DBH and I couldn't drop it in one piece without destroying a lot of other stuff and making it hard to get the wood out. I climbed it and took out three BIG tops. Luckily the trunk was so big there wasn't much of a ride. I left about a 50' spar to fall from the ground and again rigged a pull line with a 3-1 because I wanted to fall it directly against the lean and it had to go in a tight spot between a fence and pond. Good thing I set the pull line because I could barely get it to move with a deep face cut, and a set of double stacked wedges. Only bummer is the butt is more rotten than I expected but ya don't need to gut the center of the hinge!
First two are a couple of little alders that are growing out and over my garage, but you can't really tell from the angle I took the pictures from. I put a pull line in one and rigged a 3 to 1 progress capture pulley to pull it away from the garage and felled it from the ground. The other one I climbed and topped because it had too much trunk lean towards the garage.
The other tree was a Bigleaf Maple that had a lot of crown dieback and was randomly dropping dead limbs. So it was either watch all that wood rot for the next few years or put it to good use. This one was around 100' and 40-42" DBH and I couldn't drop it in one piece without destroying a lot of other stuff and making it hard to get the wood out. I climbed it and took out three BIG tops. Luckily the trunk was so big there wasn't much of a ride. I left about a 50' spar to fall from the ground and again rigged a pull line with a 3-1 because I wanted to fall it directly against the lean and it had to go in a tight spot between a fence and pond. Good thing I set the pull line because I could barely get it to move with a deep face cut, and a set of double stacked wedges. Only bummer is the butt is more rotten than I expected but ya don't need to gut the center of the hinge!
