Just a Little Fruit Tree They Said

[Lcback]

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.

 

[jkbemdavis]

I have no idea how she could confuse an apple tree with a maple... lol

 

[baseroom]

Nice! I guess it's better than a "big oak". That turns out to be a small willow!

 

[Mag Craft]

Nice open area and free wood. Good deal in my book even if there was a little confusion.

 

[Lcback]

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]

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.

 

[Lcback]

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.

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]

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.

 

[Mag Craft]

Yep now that I see it down with the saw on the stump it is a good size tree. Lots of good firewood.

 

[Lcback]

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.

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.

 

[Wood Wules]

Regular work shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of tree cutting.

Sorry to hear about your grandpa. I have a feeling he's proud of you.

 

[AmbDrvr253]

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

 

[Lcback]

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

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.

 

[bag of hammers]

Nice firewood score, sounds like a sweet old lady too. Condolences on losing your Grandpa, very cool doing the splitter restoration for you. Hope you get to run it for many years to come...

 

[Lcback]

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

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[byQ]

Splitting up the last of the big stuff. Snapped this picture. View attachment 178955

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How did you get that big round into a horizontal position on your splitter?

1) I have a lift on my splitter
2) I rolled it right off the truck onto a rack on the splitter (it never saw the ground)
3) I had 2 helpers besides myself
4) The tractor is outside the picture frame
5) I am so strong!
6) Other

 

[Lcback]

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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[Highbeam]

I'd be cutting them down with the saw before moving them. Easier to lift and move. Fun too!

 

[begreen]

I'd have the splitter set up for vertical splitting for all the large rounds.

 

[sportbikerider78]

Splitting up the last of the big stuff. Snapped this picture. View attachment 178955

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I took down a maple and ended up with rounds just slightly smaller then the one you show. I lifted them myself. My estimate was 275-300lbs each.

I'm very used to dead lifting 300+ lbs at the gym for quite a few reps. But its not the same as picking something weird and ackward off the ground. No handles! LOL

 

[Lcback]

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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