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Actually I was just born with good genes .My dad was still cutting firewood at 80 .A stroke got him a 86 .My mother passed a few months ago at 91.

I'll get on it a little at a time .I have to take time to take my lady friend on another honeymoon .You see at our age marriage is out of the question but honeymoons are very much an "in" thing .70---the new 40----:D

The continuing saga of the damned pig nut /smooth bark /bitter nut hickory .I finally got the thing all brushed out and chunked up into fire wood .Keeping in mind I have a lot of irons in fire at one time or so it seems .Thus it takes me forever to get things done . That damned stuff is as...

It's just simple high school physics which applies to pulling 1500 feet of armored cable at 12 pounds per foot or moving a 12,000 pound log equally . That or geometry have never changed in all of history .The Egyptians somehow built the pyramids without the aid of bulldozers and cranes and...

In theory you could move a battle ship with a garden tractor if you had enough rope and blocks .Of course it would take a mile of pull to move it an inch . Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes They figured that stuff out in...

No but I do make certain my nails are short without going any further in detail .;)

Now the rest .I had to pull and twist and cuss to get this damned thing broke loose .I must have changed directions half a dozen times .Not something I'm real proud of but considering what I had to work with it's the best I could come up with

I won,tops on the ground .First pics of the I think nearly 100 year old snatch blocks .I might first add the head pulley ,the one on the load has the whole load because all three lines are on it .The tall pulley has half the load ,two lines .The power has 1/3 the load .Each line has 1/3 the load...

Okay sports fans,ring side with Al Smith vs hickory tree . It rained again but I did get the 100 year old snatch block fixed .It had a hook that must have came off a 20 ton crane and hand forged shackles .Off came the hook just left the shackle.Now I can lift that heavy rascal . .It's double...

OMG the continuing saga of the freakin wind blow. I've carved on that thing until I have standing nearly straight up ,fence post style with a tractor holding it off .I might get it when I put a three part line on it .First I have to fix one of my snatch blocks .Once I get the top on the ground...

With a passion,and it is muckin fess .At the moment I'm just cutting my way in through the bottom and dragging out a semi full of brush .I'll go hit it for an hour or so then finish mowing my yard when it cools down a bit .

It's not that important and I'm really not in a hurry.Fact as I type I'm going to try another approach in just a little bit .Thanks for the offer but I work seven days a week and I have no idea what time ,sometimes I get off . I don't know if it will work or not .Shooting a wire pulling slug out...

Cutting off short pieces from the ground upwards .Usually on a tree that got hung into another one .You have to be careful doing it .<iframe width="854" height="480" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eA5a3bIkHj4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

All good info except I don't have the cahoonas to do that way .I did another one,much smaller with a hanging top,not on the ground ,fact I had the pictures on here .It was only half this size . This one has 3 tons of top over my head .If I screw up it might be the end of me .I've got a plan but...

No the top is still hung but here isn't much fiber left to it .I think one little tug will get it .I'll attack some of the grounded limbs with the pole saw .They are under tension .If they snap back with a pole saw at least they won't try to take my head off . There's one limb which looks...

I got the limb jerked loose,damn tree is still stuck though .I used a snatch block and a two part line because all I have is a 26 HP Ferguson TO 20 that was brand new in 1951.Needs all the help it can get . Started to rain,Bud Light time .

Yes I think it has to go from the top down not from the grounded limbs .If you look at the second picture that limb is basically held in place from the weight of the fallen top .If I can snatch it out with any luck with more more fiber that's left it will drop . If it doesn't fall I'll either...

I hope to save the trunk,standing up for lumber .They will stand up right for a long while before the roots give way .Which in this case might be a better option as I have no way to mill it other than a chainsaw at the moment .I can't imagine trying to chainsaw mill it .There's probably close to...

The last part of the post didn't come out right .I said or tried to I'll not try to "fence post" the top down .To damned big and too unstable . Pig nut hickory gets a large canopy as opposed to shag bark,those I have fence posted on occasion .Which BTW is not my favorite method to clear a blown...

I had mentioned this on another thread .Big storm front pushing ahead of it either wind shear or gust-nado conditions that can often reach 110 miles per hour .Snapped the top out of this thing like it was a tooth pick .It was around 100 foot with about 40 left standing . I might have to do some...