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Take downs
« on: January 15, 2012, 01:46:56 pm »
I'll start .This was a small dead ash ,a 65 foot double in the back yard of our rental .

I dissembled one side of the double and layed the other side through a 14 foot gate opening .Funny all the onlookers thought it couldn't be done but then they just don't know old Al very well . ;)

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2012, 02:14:02 pm »
I dont usally take pics of tree work I have done for others. For some reason this one is in my PB.

A tree guy had removed all the limbs but left the tree standing. My friend from work ask if I would come finish the job. I just used my 7901 with 32" and 066  for back ups.

Blocking it down while holding 066 head level was not my idea of fun in 100 degree heat that day.  I finally got it down to size and leveled stump up to set things on it for their yard.

I then quartered up the chunks with 32" 7901 to go into a nice bonefire.




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Re: Take downs
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2012, 02:43:33 pm »
I don't trip this one but helped buck it after it was down .The largest diameter ash tree I'd ever seen .It was in the area of 60-62 inchs .There were two of them about the same size .Tom the guy in the picture fell them and bucked  away on one with a 660 and a 36" and I the other with a souped 038 Mag with a 32 . I'll bet we chewed away on those things about an hour or so before we got them whittled down to size .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2012, 06:43:17 pm »
Oh  got a ton of them .This big old fat white oak blew over and landed on the roof of a house .Would you believe it never as much as broke a roof shingle .This is Tom running one of my 125 Macs .That danged tree must have had 50 gallons of the nastiest smelling water in it .Smelled like a hog sty .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2012, 09:37:23 pm »
Had its own internal water tank?

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2012, 05:03:55 am »
This was one of the last ones I took down last fall .100 foot white oak that died for some reason . Although the outside looked nasty the inside is some nice stuff ,clear no limbs . I got  all the logs moved out except the bottom 16 footer which will weight in at nearly 7,000 pounds .Bad weather sit it and there it still lays .

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2012, 06:20:56 am »
Do you mill them yourself?

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2012, 01:11:28 pm »
Dang Al, you are in the middle of alot of big take downs over your way.   Must be nice.

I used to have the woods ported 084's to quarter up big wood like that for the firewood guys. Then they could buck the quarter sections with their saws. No milling here.




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Re: Take downs
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2012, 07:14:06 pm »
I had a flock of dead ash plus a sugar maple and that oak which I should have fell 5 years ago .I still have a bunch of ash to put on the ground .--Plus what ever is dead in the 3 acre woods beside me .

I'm saving the good saw logs and the rest is firewood .I'll bet I've got over 10,000 board feet in logs alone and I'm not done yet .I wouldn't be surprised when it's all said and done there will be 20,000 BDF .

Lot of work .At times after hitting it for week or so I'd almost think I was a logger which I'm not .These are the logs out of one tree ,hundred foot ash

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Re: Take downs
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2012, 07:22:55 pm »
Do you mill them yourself? 

I will .I have a good start on a bandmill .Tracks and carriage are done .I have to built the saw and set works yet plus the clamping ,log loader etc .

Rubber tired deal with either a 34 HP wisconsin or an 18 Briggs or a 16 HP Wisconsin .I have all three .Hydraulic feed and log loader .Probabley chain set works .

I'm thinking about a log roller ,haven't got that far yet .

 

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