Well today I got back in the woods out at Jims... We cut a monster RO that didn't come back this year and was standing dead. Just imagine a real forest red oak with a trunk WAY up there. To get the wedge out of the butt required some creative chainsawing, my 20" bar would not meet up in the middle so I had to cut the wedge out in thirds. We aimed for a clearing and it fell pretty much where we planed but as it was falling it hooked up with another huge red oak and pulled that one up by the root ball - geeze nothing like a little excitement hu?. The one that got pulled up by the root ball missed the bobcat by about a foot - I thought I had that thing parked far enough away, just barley... That was the first tree of the day...
The second another monster RO, we studied, The butt is just as huge and looks to be burl. The branches in the top of this tree a good 50 foot up, reach out in all directions. Hard to tell where that one would fall. So we decided to hack away at that one another day, when we are stocked up with wedges (didn't have any today) I need to make some up in the shop.
The third tree... a big ole tall yellow poplar with the top blown out of it. We cut that one and it's was still standing when I left... how? I have no idea but it is, the first wind to come along will take it down, I'm sure...
The second another monster RO, we studied, The butt is just as huge and looks to be burl. The branches in the top of this tree a good 50 foot up, reach out in all directions. Hard to tell where that one would fall. So we decided to hack away at that one another day, when we are stocked up with wedges (didn't have any today) I need to make some up in the shop.
The third tree... a big ole tall yellow poplar with the top blown out of it. We cut that one and it's was still standing when I left... how? I have no idea but it is, the first wind to come along will take it down, I'm sure...