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I had a solo storm job soon after daylight. An uprooted bigleaf maple laying on a bunch of bent-over alders at a wellness retreat center, a recent new client.
Chained it, sizwheel, triple hinged, bore-cut, trying to steer it a bit left... and it tipped, and continued to lay on the trees without breaking the hinge.

The root plate flapped back down with the tree ending up laying atop the stump when I tripped it. I had a clear exit path.


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I had 4 hours of ground worker help, and additional 2.5 solo.

Natural crotched down a few pieces that I self- lowered, speedlined a few, and self-caught/ lowered a number onto the speed line. Dumped a pair of 6" diameter leaders onto the slope, yarding them up the slope with the mini and rope.


Got 5 yards of chips and firewood. I was running low on fuel in my cs2511t, and the 12" bar was pretty maxed.

Oh, and thanks Paul Cox for making the Wraptor!

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'Brother Charlie's log loader made fast work unloading a bunch of large firewood logs at his shop of my tandem axle trailer, then he tractored out firewood logs at my place from my compact chip box/ wood box trailer. Small enough and big enough for being moved by the mini for hard access spots.

My chip truck is full of chips...I need to coordinate with the Master Gardeners volunteer to drop chips for their program' work space.
 
Beautiful country you live in, CV. Has all the recent rains greened things up a fair amount?
 
I had a couple hours, so I chunked down one stem most of the way, but will want to pull remaining pieces against the lean, one trunk to stump level, and one spar to ground felling level, loaded up a heavy trailer of wood, and got outta Dodge before the side street ice up, barely, coming home to a power outage. There is a lot of wood on the ground, and a lot to go in these two spars, plus another maple and decent-sized alder.



Log (un)loader will make quick work of the load, like 4 minutes, and Charlie will have some nice maple firewood. Hooked him up with maple chips for cow bedding, which will mix with manure, and ends up in his garden... soil must be getting better, year by year.
He helped me unload two trailers of wood earlier in the day with his tractor.
Still have a load of wood chips in the dump for the Master Gardeners' program.
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And that's all for today, no comment

Yes, it was a white pine, 4 stem nasty one right next to a house with wind
 

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Gloves! White pines are nasty to deal with. Looking at one too long gets you sticky :^(
funny enough I just organized like 10 pair of the cheap hobo freight ones loading up the truck today
best part, since my chip truck is down we had to pack the whole tree into my dump trailer, skidsteer is out a battery right now so it was all hand loading...
 
28" left a small, rotten center post of wood, popped free with wedges, after threatening to get the bottle jack.

Another load of wood on my 6x12... my hauler, Charlie, got tied up, and didn't have time today. Still lots more coming off this job.

With the heavy lean, and how much they are splitting now, i wonder if lumber is a waste of work, or firewood is a waste of slabs.
 

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You're still figuring out the mill, right? Might be good practice wood. Maybe you'll get good slabs, and if not, they'll still burn. Maybe work out quartersawing. Get a routine down for when you get some nice logs.
 
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