Re: Gentle persuasion over time.. suck cess
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:06 pm
The bottom of trunk is right on the edge of my property line over by the store. You can see a shovel handle sticking out from under it.
The top of this puppy clearly invaded my other neighbor's yard. Not to mention top of tree #2 it took down with it. As I predicted the 3" branch that was holding this puppy up sheared off when exposed to the full weight of that much wood.
Once it started falling it quickly picked up momentum,,, in addition to taking off the 3" branch, it took about a 6" wide bite out of the back trunk of that same junk tree it was stuck in... You can see the raw wood from tree trunk #2 poking out from underneath the big dog tree #1 trunk.
It is going to take me several more days to cut this up to burn... I may also try to use the come along to lift the trunk of the felled tree up off the ground to make it easier to cut off chunks with the chainsaw.
The difficult work is done but there is still plenty of "hard" work left.
JR
It was not trivial to move the bottom of the tree that was digging into the dirt plowing a furrow. I got to use some applied vector geometry to make that task easier. By attaching the come along pull attachment point up higher on the nearby tree to pull both up and over at the same time, the tree was much easier to move (thanks Euclid). The top of this puppy clearly invaded my other neighbor's yard. Not to mention top of tree #2 it took down with it. As I predicted the 3" branch that was holding this puppy up sheared off when exposed to the full weight of that much wood.
Once it started falling it quickly picked up momentum,,, in addition to taking off the 3" branch, it took about a 6" wide bite out of the back trunk of that same junk tree it was stuck in... You can see the raw wood from tree trunk #2 poking out from underneath the big dog tree #1 trunk.
It is going to take me several more days to cut this up to burn... I may also try to use the come along to lift the trunk of the felled tree up off the ground to make it easier to cut off chunks with the chainsaw.
The difficult work is done but there is still plenty of "hard" work left.
JR