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Works on big and small...
Gord's description from the TB thread, no other pertinent info in the thread, I don't believe.
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/old-douglas-fir-removal-embedded-pics.10825/
The first piece had the big limb on one side so it went over easy.
The second piece I made a real mess of...I was tired and didn't cut a deep enough underbed in it, so it didn't want to go over easy despite having a decent enough lean, so after setting a few wedges and pounding until I was ready to puke, partly from the dust which is kind of terrible (why didn't I tie a rope on the top...?) I cut it up too far and it pinched my saw, bravo! so I took off the powerhead and managed to throw a rope up over a stub near the top of the piece (it was kinda precarious as it had already lifted about 4" at the back) and got the ground guys to pull it over, it went before they even got the rope tight.
The third and last piece I set a rope on but I also made a proper magic cut and it went over just as it should, rope not needed.
We left the spar at 50', it's funny tho because it's so fat it only looks about 25' tall.
Yeah and the bark was terrible, I gave up pretty quickly trying to spur up it, it's hard enough to flip 25 feet or so of lanyard without gaffing out three times every step. The lower bark was 100% rotten and the upper stuff wasn't much better.
Works on big and small...
Gord's description from the TB thread, no other pertinent info in the thread, I don't believe.
http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/old-douglas-fir-removal-embedded-pics.10825/
The first piece had the big limb on one side so it went over easy.
The second piece I made a real mess of...I was tired and didn't cut a deep enough underbed in it, so it didn't want to go over easy despite having a decent enough lean, so after setting a few wedges and pounding until I was ready to puke, partly from the dust which is kind of terrible (why didn't I tie a rope on the top...?) I cut it up too far and it pinched my saw, bravo! so I took off the powerhead and managed to throw a rope up over a stub near the top of the piece (it was kinda precarious as it had already lifted about 4" at the back) and got the ground guys to pull it over, it went before they even got the rope tight.
The third and last piece I set a rope on but I also made a proper magic cut and it went over just as it should, rope not needed.
We left the spar at 50', it's funny tho because it's so fat it only looks about 25' tall.
Yeah and the bark was terrible, I gave up pretty quickly trying to spur up it, it's hard enough to flip 25 feet or so of lanyard without gaffing out three times every step. The lower bark was 100% rotten and the upper stuff wasn't much better.