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Situation- slope is 35 deg. (on a Mayes angle finder)
5 trees, blow down, bases are up-hill and they are all hung up in lower slope trees.
Largest is about 16" diam., about 30-40' length, all lodgepole pine.
They're all laying into the surrounding trees at a 90 deg. (level) angle, but due to the slope I can walk under them , do jumping-jacks with a MS-180 in each hand, and not touch them. If I wanted to.
But I don't, so what is the safest way to get these cut up?
I'm thinking a notch on the tops, as far out as I can get, then a bottom cut going up. They should hinge and after some carefull relief cuts, come down enough to push 'em to the ground.
I can string a lot of cable and a come-a-long if required.
Thanks, JB
(I'll check in later, only a few hours of light left.)
Situation- slope is 35 deg. (on a Mayes angle finder)
5 trees, blow down, bases are up-hill and they are all hung up in lower slope trees.
Largest is about 16" diam., about 30-40' length, all lodgepole pine.
They're all laying into the surrounding trees at a 90 deg. (level) angle, but due to the slope I can walk under them , do jumping-jacks with a MS-180 in each hand, and not touch them. If I wanted to.
But I don't, so what is the safest way to get these cut up?
I'm thinking a notch on the tops, as far out as I can get, then a bottom cut going up. They should hinge and after some carefull relief cuts, come down enough to push 'em to the ground.
I can string a lot of cable and a come-a-long if required.
Thanks, JB
(I'll check in later, only a few hours of light left.)