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We have been doing some firewood logging of hazardous, dead, rotten and hollow hardwoods lately. This tree was 40" where I cut it. There was a porkupine in the log that crawled out when my brother removed the chokers. I had one crawl out of the stump on me yesterday too.
This tree had a good size canopy with plenty of hazards present. The drop zone was angled across the logging road we were using to skid. We had to drop a small dead pine that was caught in the top to clear it for the fall. Temps were about 15F when we cut this and were well below 0F yesterday. The snow is getting up there too.
I used my newest 660 with a 32" bar. The tree had a slight lean to the lay, but the two biggest branches came back over my head to balance the tree out. Wedging conditions were crap, but threw almost everything we had at it and pounded in tandem to bring it down. We had to drop another small pine that was caught in the top to release the tree for the fall.
That's my brother on his skidder and assisting on the wedges also. I did the falling and our good friend and property owner did the pictures and some limbing/bucking and hooking chokers.
Hope you guys like this since it is my first substantial post.
This tree had a good size canopy with plenty of hazards present. The drop zone was angled across the logging road we were using to skid. We had to drop a small dead pine that was caught in the top to clear it for the fall. Temps were about 15F when we cut this and were well below 0F yesterday. The snow is getting up there too.
I used my newest 660 with a 32" bar. The tree had a slight lean to the lay, but the two biggest branches came back over my head to balance the tree out. Wedging conditions were crap, but threw almost everything we had at it and pounded in tandem to bring it down. We had to drop another small pine that was caught in the top to release the tree for the fall.
That's my brother on his skidder and assisting on the wedges also. I did the falling and our good friend and property owner did the pictures and some limbing/bucking and hooking chokers.
Hope you guys like this since it is my first substantial post.
Oh I've done it before many a time it just wasn't my favorite thing to do .
