The worst stumps you've ever seen.

[Gord]

It's hard to really appreciate just how frighteningly bad these are, but picture a dense conifer forest (with a few big snags mixed in) and a madman cutting up 100' plus trees like this. In his own words 'We would just cut them and then we had to run like mad.' They're really fortunate no one got hurt. They left us one cedar hung up in a big fir snag to deal with...

[No_Bivy]

seen worse here.....same moto from the dudes felling though:O

[sotc]

most of em have hinge wood:)

[Gord]

Ok how could you honestly make a worse stump than some of these. I threw one of mine in there...see it?

[Dave Shepard]

Fourth down, second column?:/:

Actually, I'd say, first column, second down.

[MasterBlaster]

That would be a cool avatar for Stumper. :drink:

[CurSedVoyce]

I will take a picture of a couple really bad stumps from around here. Kids mostly trying to earn a buck and people willing to take a chance to save some..:O

[Stumper]

That would be a cool avatar for Stumper. :drink:

Aww Butch... those are uglier than me!

[JamesTX]

First column, third one down - why does it have an impression of the chain and bar?

[Dave Shepard]

That'll happen when the tree sets back hard.

[FJR]

!

[Skwerl]

Wow, that is incredible! :O

[MasterBlaster]

Hell, I gotta repost this...

[Dave Shepard]

You'd get first place for that Butch, if it was a stump.:/:

[MasterBlaster]

Hey, eventually it was!

[CurSedVoyce]

HAHAHA.. Yup butch, that one takes the cake....

[Stumper]

I looked at one a few years ago-complete with homeowner explanation of his wisdom, forethought and sublime ingenuity. He ringed the cottonwood tree with his 12 or 14 inch barred chainsaw, no superfluous nonsense like a face cut, and left it with about 6 inches of heart holding it until the next good wind.:|:

I'll grant that he did actually have room to fell it in any direction but he apparently didn't bother to consider that someone might walk under it at the moment of failure.

[stig]

It looks like this 250 year old beech was felled using the same method.:D

[sotc]

dont you see the corners? they are in the middle:lol:

[TheTreeSpyder]

Many things can be L-earned from Hinge Forensics (http://arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=10746) (warning: olde AS thread from happier times there, with the usual suspects, even a pic from Eric).

Even 5 years later; Butch has like a dozen of the top 10 Viewed, Replied, Rated threads ever that he started (with "no-thing to say of course"..... or other wierds, "how do you start a long running thread with just a smiley"?). Shame to be such a freakin'slackard; whar the hell is he now anyways?


Oh, well ne ways:

[MasterBlaster]

THose threads are still there? I know the Party Started was was closed.

[TheTreeSpyder]

partyStarted was closed and moved as lead in pic forum,wudja do today, tautline appreciation thread, stupid human trix, Mistletoe sux, 1st takedown, 12 or 16 strand is all i actually see, but some are listed 2x and i was jest guesstimating..

i ain't crunching it further, but it is only logical that noone else in those top listings appears so many times, even when they had years more to do it... The number's mute testimony is deafening, and really helps to make their point(lessnessism).

[CurSedVoyce]

Them be some uglies !:O

[CurSedVoyce]

This is one from the neighbors across the street.. Find a lot like this around here.... It ain't as ugly as some of the ones you guys posted, but scary none the less. This bull pine snag was just plain ready and brittle... I offered to help but:roll:

[sotc]

beauty!

[Burnham]

Here's a sweet little number...:O

One of our "Forest visitors" who desired a little illegal firewood harvest. It hung up, along side and slightly overhanging one of the roads I manage.

I cleared it with a pull rope placed by throwline and the winch on my truck.

Cleaning up this sort of foolishness can get nerve-wracking at times.:whine:

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder which cut they started first?

[CurSedVoyce]

Run !

[Burnham]

I wonder which cut they started first?

First the sorta horizontal cut from the left side, forming the base of the face. Then the sloping cut, conventional face cut style, again from the left, leaving huge dutchman. Last, sloping back cut oh so cleverly planned to keep it from going over with the lean, opposite the desired lay...which of course it went ahead and did anyway, right after he cut through all the holding wood.
:|:

[CurSedVoyce]

There must be days my friend.. there must be days. Cause you are the fix it guy ;)

[sotc]

suprised you didnt find a "wild thing" stuck in there still:D

[CurSedVoyce]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Now THAT was FUNNY!

[Newfie]

This is one from the neighbors across the street.. Find a lot like this around here.... It ain't as ugly as some of the ones you guys posted, but scary none the less. This bull pine snag was just plain ready and brittle... I offered to help but:roll:

He needed a few more inches of bar so he could completely cut off the holding wood.:roll:

[Burnham]

suprised you didnt find a "wild thing" stuck in there still:D

I keep thinking that one of these days I'm gonna find the "wild thing" operator under one of these sticks.

[CurSedVoyce]

Funny but not funny Burnam...:|:

Here is one of 3 on our property that I just adore.. They are before we took over the property BTW. So here is number one. Boot shot is for size. Figure a foot as I am a size 8. I really appreciate the dish out effect :lol:

[Dave Shepard]

I'd have to ALAP that if it was on my place, possibly in a subterranean fashion with the backhoe.:/:

[CurSedVoyce]

It will be Dave... See the dead pine behind it??? Yup, gonna burn them both... ;)

[Gord]

I had to add this one in here, under the heading of "Worst stump by a Pro Faller." Apparently it took four chains to cut this up enough to get it down due rocks throughout the wood. The lowest edge of the undercut is about 6' below the backcut. Not a great location at any rate.

[sawinredneck]

I have to say I probably would have kept on walking if I had seen that tree Gord!!

[CurSedVoyce]

Dang..... One of those.... Um If I could just cut this from about 15 feet up the tree ...... Kinda deals.. Man I hate rocks. Always feel unsafe in them too... Not many escape routes .

[Hobby Climber]

No pictures to show but the worst stump I've seen was about 5' across & 4' out of the ground. Its root flairs were lifting up many of the patio bricks on one side & cracking the cement pad on the other.

Worst part about the whole thing was it was covered in Poison Ivy! :O

The customer wanted the stump out but didn't want me to disturb his cement or brick pad or I would be responsible for the damage.

There was no access for a proper size grinder other that a vermeer 252 or similar size unit...maybe. And this guy was becomming more dificult with more stipulations and wanting it in writting that he wasn't gonna pay me until HE was satisfied with the job.

Before the guy went any further, I told him that the best way for him to deal with his stump was to:

-Hit the poison ivy with round-up to kill it,
-then burn it off the stump after its dryed up to get rid of it,
-get a good chainsaw & have half a dozen extra chains handy,
-cut it out in sections, (cube it),
-dispose of it as he sees fit,
-(I go on & on about what he can do about the bricks & cement work, and how to deal with the remainder of the stump in the ground...etc, etc).


The customer tells me that, 'you could not pay him enough money to do all that work by myself'! I said to him thats something that we can both agree upon and that I felt the same way.

This is the part where I turned & walked away, leaving him with a dumbfounded(sp?) look on his face!

BTW, the stump & ivy are still there and its been over 5 years since my visit with this customer, go figure.


HC