yesterday's pine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8g__syN4_I

3 minutes

Mr Skidsteer strikes again..

put a couple clips in their for the skidsteer lover in all of us... Driveway was 2 months old.. I wanted to use plywood to protect it as the crane dropped the pics, but the operator would have none of it..

Always nice when the customer come out to help you "sweep" the backyard..


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Cool!

Love the "self limbing" pine tree.

Ed

Ya and the spar cut itslef in half too, pretty cleanly..

Dan, what's the reasoning behind those cuts? It seems that if you were able to reach the top to make the notch/plunge/backcut, you could just as easily have notched and cut it normally while the skidsteer pulled. Granted I weren't there, but I'd hate to leave a tree nearly severed that close to a customer's home. As to the stub, I KNOW it could have been cut normally. Just wondering what your purpose was with the "remote" idea.

there are uses for that particlar cut.. note that there is no way it is not going on the hinge (to the derired direction of fall), and secondly that there is close to 0% chance that a gust of wind could trip the snap cut on the back cut, as a high pull line still requires a good bit of pulling with the skid steer to trip the top. So on this particular fall the real reason was to have a chance to move the bucket and get a cool camera angle... though there have been other situations where as a fat, old, lazy climber, I have used it to avoid having to jump out of the bucket.