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Re: Take downs
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2012, 09:05:39 pm »
This is another tall ash .I had to knock about 20-25 feet out of the top to preserve a walnut so as not to clip it on the fall . View is from about 60 feet up in a bucket truck

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #11 on: January 20, 2012, 10:29:42 am »
This thing is the largest shag bark hickory I've ever seen in my life .It was over 100 and  three feet at the cut .

Tom for some reason wanted to put a rope in it and cut some out of the top .He did a pretty good job shooting it through a  6 foot hole .Differences in the way things are done between a ground  feller like me and a tree trimmer .The end results are all that matter though not the methods .

I bucked it and cleaned up the mess in my neighbors yard which took me the best part of a day .Geeze there's enough hickory in those 16 foot logs to make hammer handles for half the state of Ohio .

The stump over the rootspread was five and a half feet and I counted 270 growth rings .Have no idea what killed it nor many hickorys over the last several years ,just died on the vine

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #12 on: January 20, 2012, 10:37:58 am »
Just think, that three had been there since the early 1700's

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #13 on: January 20, 2012, 10:48:05 am »
That oak stump I'm standing on in the avatar  was probabley at least 12 inchs in diameter during the revolutionary war .It exceeded  the big hickory by about 20-30 years judging by the ring count . The average life of a northern red oak exceeds 300 .Some rare ones maybe 400 .Not too many of those eastern giants left standing though .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #14 on: January 20, 2012, 04:24:43 pm »
Here is one from this last summer.  Mom had one leaning over the house so I cabled it up and started cutting.  I was using a new to me poor running Mac 10 10 but I guess the tree did not know that. I used my pole saw to take some of the weight off the house side of the tree.

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The snowmobile rider is my brother last year and the harp was last summer also.

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2012, 05:01:18 pm »
This was one of my screw ups .Damned cotton wood was right over this guys barn with a lean .I knew I could turn the lay at least 90 on the fall and tried for about 110 degrees .

Trying to hit a 20 foot hole which I almost did until I cut the wrong  side of the tapered back cut and put a top limb into a big hickory and there it hung .Had to fence post that SOB until it was about straight and snatch it with a skidloader .Didn't take much except I should have hit it the first shot had I payed attention .Chit happens .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2012, 04:10:36 pm »
More ash,it's endless it seems . A pair of fat ones growing at the side of a woods where they didn't have fight for sunlight .

As a result they only made about 65 feet but fat as a hog and totally unsuited for lumber .However from the pair there was over 6 full cords of wood .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #17 on: March 19, 2012, 09:37:42 am »
I see I'm not the only one that has been kept busy with Ash trees the last several years. Dang EAB >:(
Here is a video of my 5200 Poulan, proof I do use them. LOL  And a couple pics from another Ash I took down & bucked up with the 245A. And one I used the 4200 on. Wern't monsters by any means, all 3 were 25" .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADMdSPK7_VM&feature=player_detailpage






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Re: Take downs
« Reply #18 on: March 19, 2012, 03:52:44 pm »
I see I'm not the only one that has been kept busy with Ash trees the last several years. Dang EAB >:(

Seen EAB so bad down the road from you they were scattered in my buddies driveway when I pulled in (shiney little buggers).

The woods behind him has a lot of dead ash and elm.  I reckon a elm disease  ???

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #19 on: March 19, 2012, 09:52:17 pm »
It's decent firewood .Not as good as oak but still good .It makes wonderfull lumber also if you' re into wood working .If you get creative with stain it's hard to tell from oak especially if quarter  sawn .

Now I'm trying to save the best logs for saw logs because this is it for ash in probabley the forseeable future .Once it's gone it's gone .

I figure we've got 5-7 years at best to get the dead ones while they are still fit for lumber .That 24 incher is a perfect sized saw log .

 

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