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Definitely worth a stop and pic. She's a real beauty.

I have an 8 pounder I haven't used for quite some time. The hydraulic splitter wins the race.

Where are they going? slabs?

That's always good advise, Sean. One time, but actually a couple of times, I have rocked my chains 20' from the rootwad in clear clean wood. In each case the tree was hollow, fallen downhill, and over the years seasonal rains had washed the dirt and rocks from the rootwad down into the...

Here's a euc at Sonoma Mt. Regional Park. upper right hand corner in the first pic. It's not a blue gum... leaves are too small, but it's a good size tree.

Nice hingewood pics.

Nice to have.

Big tree's in marginal condition, and narrow places to fit them. It's a nasty combination. Wicked. Good pics, too, by the way. Thanks for sharing.

Rodney Ciro, third gen timber faller in the county, has a lot of good stories to tell. One about packing a gunny sack full of steel wedges. frig carrying the sack, he thought. So he started dragging that sack of steel wedges across the hillside and wore a hole in the sake and out spilled the...

Definitely more practical approach. Nice chunk of steel nonetheless. "Back in the day" I recall, 24 inch steel falling wedges were still in use. ol' timer told me, "tap them in. Don't pound them, or you end up compressing the wood without lifting the tree." He was referring to setting a...

Funny, it looks like a scrape of sheet steel.

for what is that to be used?

All makes good sense. Understanding wood fiber Sloping back-cuts, however, can direct the force of a wedge to split out the back of the tree. In this particular case, as per your diagram, the stump side of the back-cut will split-out under the wedge. Same when driving wedges in the region...

This thread is turning into a darn good study in Eucalyptus. I'm digging it.

The bluegum, E. globus, in my region and pruned like that would grow back fine. in 30 40 years most people wouldn't know it was ever trimmed. Probably look good too.

Brutal. Trees and structures together, all meeting their end.

Free the Eucs.

Excellent documentation. Just keep on doing what you're doing. Great!

Incredibly brutal images. And no regen? That's it? Once they're gone they're gone? Where I live there would be seed and sucker regen up the ying-yang. Rad!