Scoping out the future work

I have been looking at this shagbark off and on just haven't put the saw to it yet. I have been working on a lot of stuff that was knocked down last year with the dozer but I have that about finished up. Not sure still whether I will help it down or just wait. I have a couple other spots to cut but this hickory would be a fine addition to the pile and it already has a good lean. Should go right down with easy access to load after chunking it up.

For sure get that thing down! Wish I had a few hundred of those trees. I think we have six.

It's gonna come down. With or with out your help,
With your help you know when, with out your help, ? ?

It's funny when I look at the pictures I took of this it looks like it has even more of a lean than I thought. Maybe just because the picture focuses in on it more than out in the open live. Either way I think after looking at the pictures it just better go to the ground next time I get the chance.

It came down today but it barber chaired on me and also turned just enough to get hung up slightly in some small trees. It fought me but eventually I won. Sorry right after it hung up I thought should have brought the camera. Had to be home early today so only hauled about 1/2 a pickup load will need to go back for the rest.

Glad to hear it went well after it barber chaired on you. That could have been bad, real bad.

You are absolutly right Ralphie those can be very dangerous and was I thinking with the lean it had it might do that. I made sure I had a good clear escape path. It didn't crack and swing way out because of it getting hung in the small trees. Just got the rest of it home.

Wow! You can heat your house for a couple of winters with that haul and have enough left over to roast a pen full of pigs in the summer!

Looking good, LP! Glad it came down and no one was hurt. Looks like the ol' Ford is working good for you.

Yep the old Ford is working out well so far. I do have to drop the gas tank and fix the sending unit. That darn hickory is heavy wood. I could really feel it in my arms last night and that's unusual for this time of year after all the wood i've cut and hauled. Just darn heavy.

You need to split that stuff on 'da spot next time. I can't remember, do you have a hydraulic splitter?

For backbreaking jobs, I take the splitter with me. If that huge locust and two cherry tree job I got pans out, I'll be taking the splitter with me.....

I do have hydraulics but it was muddy so I didn't really want to chance it. Also I had to wheelbarrow some of it a short distance (15-20 yards) or I could have rolled it but once I get it lifted and into the wheel barrow may as well put it in the truck. Plus I had a date with the little woman so was on a schedule. Arms feel fine today "what don't kill you will make you stronger" Heck maybe I can pick that little woman up now and give her a little kissin

As long as you make it back home in one piece at the end of the day (albeit a little sore), all's well......
My wife (AKA 'Da Boss) gets mad at me when I'm out back throwing those big rounds around, and I come in the house that night complaining how sore my back is.....