I need to get my MS660 rebuilt, and a bigger bar.
My hauler was back from a trip, so I felled this stub and he took two loads to town in total from the tree, under 2000 board feet, probably.
Was supposed to leave the 5' (the wider way) butt log standing for a wildlife snag about 15' tall, but the HOA changed their mind after looking at it for a bit. $500 to fell the butt log from the ground and haul, rather than pull a log off, from the split at about 15' to complete the previous specs.
My friend/ the hauler just missed the log yard closing up. It was just a chip log, not a good saw log in it. Only about 60 years old. Huge ribs at the inclusion. Cool log. His wife wants it. He'll cut it really flat and square and stand it up at her new cat/ kitten adoption center. It will be for bird houses and a habitat snag. They have a big cedar log stood up in the front yard, already.
That was a fight for him to load, one end at a time. Heavy, you might say.
He's loaded a log or two in his day.
Full gap face. I started to try to humboldt it, starting about 1' up, as that was the stump spec. That wasn't going to happen with a 36" bar. Easier to move up for a gap-face, and cut the rest of the stump.
