My little brother Tommy, Dad and I were felling trees. Joel who runs my younger brothers laser on nite shift had three dead trees he wanted cut down. So we went out I got there at 1:30 and looked at them. Two I could do but there was too much stuff around the third one to do. Tommy said they were big but not real big. So I took my little 2145 and the 2171. Then thought what the heck and threw the big one in I only ran it once this year and it would be good to make a few cuts with it.
The first one was a dead ash 30" dia. I looked at my main cutting saw with a 20" bar and I could do it but I had the right saw for the job. So I grabbed my big boy 2186 with 32" bar. Most of the bark was off and it had a good lean. But it was in the clear and only tall grass around it. So I stomped the grass down and wacked it and hit with a mighty Kaboom! It had some good sized branches that were punky and it cracked and shattered when it hit the ground. Joel's little boy about 5 was jumping around yelling Dad it just exploded.
The second was a big maple 33" one way and 38" the other. And it had poison ivy vines on it so I put my brother to work peeling the vines off with a hatchet. But it had a rotted hole from ground up to 2 two foot. So I cut my hinge in at 3.5 foot the highest I could run the saw safely. It was a little soft but didn't seem bad. Dropped it right where I wanted it. But half the hinge just crumbled while the other half had good fiber pull. I don't cut many trees with lots of big branches. So I cleared a lot around the tree so I had three good escape routes. I crashed down and was a eye opener when the trunk lifted up 7 foot the rolled to the side 5 feet and landed on the ground. After I got two blocks cut off of it the stem was held off the ground by the branches so I could cut up 15' with out pinching the bar or hitting the ground. Man it felt good running that 2186 with 32" of bar berried in wood and chewing through it!
While I was blocking the trunk Tommy was limbing it. All of a sudden I hear my Dad yelling watch out watch out. My brother cut off a limb and the tree was rolling big branches up 15' in the air over him. But he was able to back up and stay away from the branches. Its always good to have someone around watching.
Then we broke out the splitter and started splitting the ash while dragging branches to the fire pit and burning them. Joel's wife cooked us dinner so we stopped splitting half way through the ash then got back to splitting. Our trailer is 5x10 with 33" side rails and I figure it holds about 1 1/4 cords. And we had the trailer filled just as it got dark. Joel couldn't believe how much we got done in three hours or so. There are just a few small pieces of ash left to split. And the maple is blocked up and ready to be split.
What a great day!! Sorry no pictures I was in a hurry and forgot the camera.
Billy
The first one was a dead ash 30" dia. I looked at my main cutting saw with a 20" bar and I could do it but I had the right saw for the job. So I grabbed my big boy 2186 with 32" bar. Most of the bark was off and it had a good lean. But it was in the clear and only tall grass around it. So I stomped the grass down and wacked it and hit with a mighty Kaboom! It had some good sized branches that were punky and it cracked and shattered when it hit the ground. Joel's little boy about 5 was jumping around yelling Dad it just exploded.
The second was a big maple 33" one way and 38" the other. And it had poison ivy vines on it so I put my brother to work peeling the vines off with a hatchet. But it had a rotted hole from ground up to 2 two foot. So I cut my hinge in at 3.5 foot the highest I could run the saw safely. It was a little soft but didn't seem bad. Dropped it right where I wanted it. But half the hinge just crumbled while the other half had good fiber pull. I don't cut many trees with lots of big branches. So I cleared a lot around the tree so I had three good escape routes. I crashed down and was a eye opener when the trunk lifted up 7 foot the rolled to the side 5 feet and landed on the ground. After I got two blocks cut off of it the stem was held off the ground by the branches so I could cut up 15' with out pinching the bar or hitting the ground. Man it felt good running that 2186 with 32" of bar berried in wood and chewing through it!
While I was blocking the trunk Tommy was limbing it. All of a sudden I hear my Dad yelling watch out watch out. My brother cut off a limb and the tree was rolling big branches up 15' in the air over him. But he was able to back up and stay away from the branches. Its always good to have someone around watching.
Then we broke out the splitter and started splitting the ash while dragging branches to the fire pit and burning them. Joel's wife cooked us dinner so we stopped splitting half way through the ash then got back to splitting. Our trailer is 5x10 with 33" side rails and I figure it holds about 1 1/4 cords. And we had the trailer filled just as it got dark. Joel couldn't believe how much we got done in three hours or so. There are just a few small pieces of ash left to split. And the maple is blocked up and ready to be split.
What a great day!! Sorry no pictures I was in a hurry and forgot the camera.
Billy
! Then it didn't happen !
LOL
