Cracked oak

[Cobleskill]

In small Oaks I have seen a cone of rot at ground level. It usually doesn't go up as high as normal stump cut height. If it does it usually is small diameter.

 

[pantheraba]

The only targets (besides the house) are the tops of nearby trees. I considered felling the whole thing but it will damage several other trees as it falls. Getting about 20 feet of those last leads down will make if fellable. I'll get Alex to man a pull line to direct the tops while I cut them.

AL, I wish I knew somebody that would want the trunk...I'd rather see it milled than burnt. Access to retrieve the log would be a problem, though...I can barely get my Dodge 1500 thru the woods behind the house to get eqpt to the site. It'll probably end up firewood.

 

[NeTree]

So.. is it done yet?

 

[gf beranek]

Nice work, Gary!

 

[Al Smith]

Don't get to hastey on firewooding it if you've a mind to save it .It's oak and it will weather a long time before it degrades to unusable .

Crib it up on something like a piece of the lower limbs and paint or use roofing tar to seal the ends .If say after a couple years you don't find a use for it then firewood it .Just a thought .

 

[pantheraba]

So.. is it done yet?

Ha! I wish!! My wife informed me last night she hoped I would go with her tomorrow AM with her to do something...guess when I had planned to finish the tree? Looks like it will either be tomorrow PM or Thurs. AM (Alex is a fireman so I get to work around his schedule..AFTER working around the wife )

 

[NeTree]

Just remember... happy wife... happy life.

 

[sotc]

And if your wife ain't happy long enough, you'll be unhappy with half your stuff! (Bill engvall or foxworthy or some other funny guy)

 

[Bodean]

Gary, get up that thing and chunk that monkey out.

 

[woodworkingboy]

"Yes dear" is the secret to a happy marriage. About twenty years to find that out.

 

[Al Smith]

Well yeah sometimes you have to act interested weather you are or not .Kind of like "faking " it ,well sort of in another way .

 

[pantheraba]

hahah...Al, that's good.

Deva...I promise, I want to get it DOWN...just consider this long drawn out exchange foreplay. Plus, Willie is right...I want to keep all my "stuff" together

 

[Bodean]

Word'em up, G-dawg.

 

[pantheraba]

Set up to do Thurs. AM...had a call this AM from a church that I quoted a big pecan removal to last year...didn't get that job. But, my contact called today and another pecan had busted out a 20 foot lead yesterday...dead calm, no wind, limb just snapped; twas hung up about 15 feet up. Luckily no cars or people nearby.

I went early, checked it out, gave a price and he said, "Do it". So I did. Sent a running bowline up to the end of the limb and used my truck to pull the limb over into the parking lot. Then climbed up and cut the fractured 8 inch diameter limb back to good wood. All that was easy, even fun..it was the clean up that sucked. Way too hot and in the sun...had to cut up the wood and stack it for them...luckily they didn't want it hauled off. A pretty quick $250.

Cracked oak confrontation tomorrow.

Here is the tree from today....what I saw when I got there and how I left it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sweet..... TCOB!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Easy peasy!!!

 

[pantheraba]

Yeah, I'd like more of those broken pecan jobs...quick and simple.

 

[Burnham]

 

[pantheraba]

The oak is down and it did have some surprises. I have some video I am working on and some stills. I'll go ahead and post the stills first and get to the video later.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Good to know it's down Gary... Can't wait to see the vid brother

 

[NeTree]

 

[rskybiz]

Did an oak recent same spirals lightning struck .02

 

[pantheraba]

We found the proposed hinge was already gutted by Mother Nature. We had a slight pull with Alex's truck...the spar went down fine...chains and strap did their job. We took out the 3 major leads with 3 cuts...made some pretty good noises that the video captured.

My MS650 ran fine for the felling...during the bucking it started bogging badly and we didn't get to finish the arborotopsy. I am guessing the saw was responding to the heat but don't know the cause yet. The 290 and 019T had no problems.

Video later.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nicely done Gary..... Nicely done

 

[pantheraba]

Thanks, Stephen...trying to edit the video to minimize the boring factor.