dead oak status?

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  • #77
so climb the damn tree and cut the leaders out, white oaks hold good enough for that. jeez.
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Just cut the fooking thing already from NeTree

Lorda mercy, I sure did manage to get some of you boys all het up :lol:

OK, so I DID cut it already...today after work. I used a throw line to pull a rope into each lead and shake the boogers out of them...shook the dead wood out and verified the leads were still sound. I spurred up to the main fork of the leads and cut off each lead which left a very manageable spar.

Put a good pull rope at the top, went down on my friction saver, saver got stuck, spurred back up to snatch the goldarned thing out, put a Z-drag, 2:1 system in (single butterfly midline, anchored to truck, pulled thru biner at butterfly back toward truck) and had the 3 Bosnian fellows that were on site keep steady tension while I did my back cut.

My first face cut was too shallow so I dropped back and made a better one...didn't like the direction it faced so I nipped out the non-street side of the face cut.

Once I got enough of the back cut made I had the fellows keep pressure on the pull and set TWO wedges (that has to make some of you crazy). Cutting that high with the MS 450 was a bit dicey but I finally whittled down to the hinge while they pulled. She toppled over just fine.
 

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im with ya squish. something breaks out where your tied in the tree stays where its at. no, its not nessasary but its wise and takes no time. and i disagree, if you work with trees and chainsaws a wedge or three should be in the truck
 
I think he meant 650, not 450 regarding the saw; I think it was a 3:1 unless he didn't do a Z rig; and I bet if he wouldn't have ferked with the wedge, much less two, that he would have been done before it was DARK!













:P:P:P
 
2 hitches?

Like a dual tie in?

Or one backing up the other?
 
Ha one backing up another, another example of him taking something good (a wedge) and doing it twice (two wedges)
 
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  • #87
You shoulda seen him climb with 2 friction hitches.

Carl!!! You are merciless!!!

But, usually right...yep, it was my 650...and it is 3:1. I drank a LOT of Bosnian coffee once we cleaned up...me and the 3 Bosnos at the picnic table under the back porch...and ate 2 of their high-test white-gas deserts they always seem to offer...all that before any real supper food. I plead delirium!

So, thanks, Carl, for getting my story straight for me.

And, yep, I did have 2 friction hitches running at one time. I learned on manila with a taut line in the 70's; didn't know about Blake's or Knuts until mid 90's. When I was transitioning from Blakes to a Knut I was not really convinced the Knut would work. I ran a swivel and Knut close and low on my saddle for awhile as I finally began to believe a Knut would work...I remember it made Frans crazy at the time. :O

I'll show some of that in another thread.
 
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