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One more little item Jeff. By swinging the limbs away from me, less chance of a new groundie smacking my feet and legs with a load ;)

No.. the wood was not allowing for a "power through" since it was so damn stringy. Smaller limbs yes, but nothing 4" plus. The choice of lowering the pieces was for our ease of handling to the chipper. Every piece wanted to run down hill..... you can see a couple of limbs that did just that...

It was the animals that was the deal breaker. The guys they send out (with few exception) are such hacks. If that fence went down and the horses got out... Life could have sucked. I also get to mill the wood this way.

Top was small. I decided to go smaller when the wind had come up... So I went higher, trimmed off the weight and wind catching limbs I wanted for the fall direction I wanted. I was falling side (90) out from the head wind. So I cut to give myself the advantage. That top probably did not weight...

If the tree were a tad more crispy, I could have powered through. I did more collar cuts to save from having to fetch wood pieces from down the slope at the fence or having to pitch them onto the driveway. Three cuts were mostly directional with a small notch to swing the limbs away from me and...

Going to harvest the wood, move it down the driveway to the mill in the front yard :D

They frig shit up and make a mess of it to be blunt and honest. Free is not always the best option. I let them do one here or there. This turned into some good family time :)

They are quite stringy at the collar and quite heavy when green. The collars get quite stringy from them pushing sap when they are attacked by the beetles as well. Can be a sticky mess. We had to keep making adjustments in wraps as we progressed up the tree. Tree is dryer towards the top since...

So Rob's parents had pretty much spent the summer on property helping with garden harvest and providing grandchildren with hours of amusement. We had one of our larger ponderosa pine die out and PG&E was riding our arses to let them remove it. 30 or so feet from the primaries, really no biggie...