MasterBlaster
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I've never heard it, lol.
Working on a Dead Elm
- Thread starter brendonv
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bill22
Guest
Eh Justin, how's it going eh?
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
Not bad.........ya hoser!
Lol.
Lol.
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bill22
Guest
Hoser?
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TreeHouser
Cool. Must be a regional expression, I haven't heard it used like that before.
Well, it maybe a cheesehead thing.
squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
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TreeHouser
Strange Brew classic!!!
Cobleskill
Treehouser
The Great White North, eh?
canadiantreeman
TreeHouser
Just take off, eh!
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Rborist1
Guest
You Canadian boys are lying! We only use the Queen's best english up here in the frozen tundra......ya right
HAHA I just used "giver" the today.
HAHA I just used "giver" the today.
HolmenTree
Banned
We have lots of DED in Manitoba now too.
So happens in 1976 we got our first incidence of DED in our capital city Winnipeg from a load of firewood, that came across the border from Minnesota.
Willard.
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TreeHouser
The cold hard ground of winter has a way of messing with your brain after awhile. ( Proper use of "giver" would be to say "Just Giver!")
SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
Give 'er????
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Is it down yet?
tophopper
The resident asshole
brendonv
Tree Hugger
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I kicked it's ass this morning. Lost a little sleep last night, but the heart rates def. down now.
It was solid as hell. Shot a line up in the Maple next door, swung over, and hung another line in the most center crotch. I worked off both. Lowered each top, and lowered wood. Still hinged very well, and wood was heavy. On the ground about 10:00. Tight LZ, Three Pears, a fence, two White Pines. Manged to put a ding on the trunk of one Pear, and three quarter sized broke branches.
No in the tree pics, I wanted to get DOWN. Dave ran ropes like a champ.
It was solid as hell. Shot a line up in the Maple next door, swung over, and hung another line in the most center crotch. I worked off both. Lowered each top, and lowered wood. Still hinged very well, and wood was heavy. On the ground about 10:00. Tight LZ, Three Pears, a fence, two White Pines. Manged to put a ding on the trunk of one Pear, and three quarter sized broke branches.
No in the tree pics, I wanted to get DOWN. Dave ran ropes like a champ.
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Burnham
Woods walker
Good news, Bren. Nice work.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
It is very good firewood. It doesn't weather or split well. About the stringiest wood out there.
tophopper
The resident asshole
Nice work!
Yup, even totally barkless, they are generally still pretty solid for the first year or so after death.
Elm has AMAZING hinging capabilities too. Not so much when dead and dry, but if it still has moisture content in the wood you couldn't ask for better. Ive pulled off some crazy stuff cutting Elm
Nice job laying the butt log between the trees.
Was it DED that killed it? It looks like it.
and, what are those green things on your loader? Some sort of counterweights?
Yup, even totally barkless, they are generally still pretty solid for the first year or so after death.
Elm has AMAZING hinging capabilities too. Not so much when dead and dry, but if it still has moisture content in the wood you couldn't ask for better. Ive pulled off some crazy stuff cutting Elm
Nice job laying the butt log between the trees.
Was it DED that killed it? It looks like it.
and, what are those green things on your loader? Some sort of counterweights?
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Well done Brendon... Probably felt good to hit terra firma after that one
Jed
TreeHouser
Well done man! Good feeling huh?
brendonv
Tree Hugger
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Thanks guys. Sure was good to be on the ground, although I was amazingly comfortable working up there after I saw how strong it still was.
Tophop, yep DED. Had the larvae damage. The green things on the mini are 42lb John Deere suitcase weights I made a bracket for and added. Extra 252 lbs makes a hell of a difference. Like a permanently mounted fat guy.
The wood was nice, although Dave's truck was there and he does firewood so I gave him all the butt logs. The other stuff was random length and I don't want to bring it to the house to save the mess so I brought it to another buddies down the street. With the log loader now I only like 9' minimum length logs, they look better in a pile.
Tophop, yep DED. Had the larvae damage. The green things on the mini are 42lb John Deere suitcase weights I made a bracket for and added. Extra 252 lbs makes a hell of a difference. Like a permanently mounted fat guy.
The wood was nice, although Dave's truck was there and he does firewood so I gave him all the butt logs. The other stuff was random length and I don't want to bring it to the house to save the mess so I brought it to another buddies down the street. With the log loader now I only like 9' minimum length logs, they look better in a pile.
Well done Brendon... Probably felt good to hit terra firma after that one
Good old terra firma never feels firmer than after coming down a shaky tree.
I actually did the pope thing and kissed the ground once, as a joke.
We had a photographer on the site and he snapped a picture of it, the boys kept bringing that picture out and laughing at me for a long time after.
Good deal, that you got that thing safely on the ground, Brendon.
Nice job.
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TreeHouser
And another one bites the dust
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