CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Finally got around to getting some video of things more recent. I am not a big one on sitting at a computer and rendering this stuff, splicing it all together and what not.
SO we had this leaning ponderosa on a property we had both Dave and Deva help us with. Deva prepped two this size on the same slope that we were able to fell up hill where the excavator could yard them out. This one just was not going to happen that way. Leaning all down hill towards a little barn. Still green though. HO just did not want to take the chance of leaving it. All the wind shading above it was almost gone. Just needed to go.
SO the plan is to preserve as much understory as possible, can't fell it straight down hill due to targets. Side hill is understory. ALso down hill is a class two creek. But we did have the recently made skidding road.
SO tree had to be reduced, brush lined down the hill and across the creek as much as possible.
We got a late start one week on the tree and lined all the lower canopy out. Some was not going to clear the creek, so we landed it for yarding on the tree side, and dropped the real low stuff just below the tree to be bundled and yarded out later.
The Videos start on out second day, returning to the site and tree to continue. I had left a throw line in the tree at almost 150 feet so I could pull up an ascent line and get right to work....
SO we had this leaning ponderosa on a property we had both Dave and Deva help us with. Deva prepped two this size on the same slope that we were able to fell up hill where the excavator could yard them out. This one just was not going to happen that way. Leaning all down hill towards a little barn. Still green though. HO just did not want to take the chance of leaving it. All the wind shading above it was almost gone. Just needed to go.
SO the plan is to preserve as much understory as possible, can't fell it straight down hill due to targets. Side hill is understory. ALso down hill is a class two creek. But we did have the recently made skidding road.
SO tree had to be reduced, brush lined down the hill and across the creek as much as possible.
We got a late start one week on the tree and lined all the lower canopy out. Some was not going to clear the creek, so we landed it for yarding on the tree side, and dropped the real low stuff just below the tree to be bundled and yarded out later.
The Videos start on out second day, returning to the site and tree to continue. I had left a throw line in the tree at almost 150 feet so I could pull up an ascent line and get right to work....
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