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  1. SouthSoundTree

    Big cottonwood!

    IF that was directed this way, no. My supervisor bombed what he could from the bucket, removing some of the width of the the crown and some weight. Then a piece of 1/2" amsteel, a hydraulic winch, and right-pedal-power. I wraptored up 2 more behemoths to set a pull line in each, and many that...
  2. SouthSoundTree

    Big cottonwood!

    We did about 15 big'uns for Parks. Roger might be familiar with Lake Sammamish. They'd been topped 30 years ago, and still around 130'+. One that was about 6-7' diameter had a 4-6" shell. Coulda felled it with an MS 150. Somehow it held up with a full, solid trunk starting at about 60', and full...
  3. SouthSoundTree

    Big cottonwood!

    I'm a long sleeve person. Shade is better than sunblock, IMO. Glove cover my hands. I should wear a neck flap and sun screen in places like face and neck. I wear a sun hat, too. It is PPE. A just had a something removed that was pre-cancerous, at 34 y.o., from her upper back (high sun exposure).
  4. SouthSoundTree

    Big cottonwood!

    rip-cutting it, an interesting idea. I dropped a spar on mulch that was wet and deep, splattered the house. I started having it washed right away off the house. The son was all saying, "don't worry about it, I'll get it later." Later would have left stains of decomposing bark mulch, I'd bet.
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