conservative chainsaw strategy

[hubcapsc]

A week before the scouting ride, the tree men came and cut some
trees that were beyond my pay-grade. They cleaned up the ones out
in the driveway, jamming whole logs into the yellow machine...



Down in the woods, around the house, they cut trees down (and limbed some
trees using some awesome climbing techniques), but they left the cleaning
up to us.

I never go kamikaze on a tangled mess with just the chainsaw. I chop out the
little branches with a 36 volt battery powered sawzall, and sometimes a
lopper... gloves, glasses... then the chainsaw when you can get in there
and cut up the bigger stuff with confidence...



Can you see the man in the tree? (full size picture, slower to download)... he's
got some skillz...



-Mike "no more big limbs hanging over the house"

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Don't be this guy and buy some chainsaw chaps. The chaps are a fraction of the cost of getting this stitched up the cost of a emergency visit etc not to mention the pain that comes with it.... In the blink of the eye is how long it took to rip my leg open.

[DirtyDan]

Don't be this guy and buy some chainsaw chaps. The chaps are a fraction of the cost of getting this stitched up the cost of a emergency visit etc not to mention the pain that comes with it.... In the blink of the eye is how long it took to rip my leg open.

I read chain saw...........

 

dan

[cookiedough]

nice house, nice property,  you are one lucky feller...

yah, best to get the heavy limbs away from the house as the new shoots will grow up one day to take their place.   I was contemplating cutting our 100+ year old burr oak down one of these days but thought twice on doing it, NO WAY, my luck it would come down on our house, but have cut 12-15 inch round bigger limbs down with a long pole saw taking like 1 hour per limb to cut by hand on a tall 8 foot ladder.  My arm strength has weakened some since in my 20s unable to go more than 10-15 saws by hand back and forth due to the weight of the wooden long saw pole, plus standing 6 feet up on an 8 foot ladder...  Makes some good firewood should have plenty for years to come...

[hubcapsc]

nice house, nice property,  you are one lucky feller...

Thanks... 21 acres of the back part of an old worn-out farm... and Carolyn and me,
and sometimes with help from friends, built the house ourselves... framed it, plumbed
it and wired it... it hasn't fallen down or burned up yet  ...

I wouldn't want to cut down a 100 year old Burr oak, that's probably a real nice tree...

The acorns are the largest of any North American oak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_macrocarpa

-Mike

[0leman]

Cool pic's.

I had a 50' lodgepole pine cut off the back of our yard last summer.  I have felled a number of trees while working, mostly while fighting fires, so new I could put it down where I wanted 9 times out of 10.  But that one chance of it going the wrong way caused me to hire it done.

The tree folks came in with three guys, boss, tree climber, swamper and a chipper.  They have the tree down I less than a hour.  The Tree Climber started at the bottom and cut limbs off on way the to top.  left two large branches that went over neighbors yards.  HE tied a rope over branches at the top and walked out on these branches to but them off piece by piece.  Never dropped any branches in others yards.   I was impressed.  He did have climbing spikes on, I have used them in my youth.  But he  was a lot better than I ever was.  Chose the right company to do the job. 

And Yeah I have two electric chainsaws, one for larger projects and one for use with a pole.  Do trim the trees in our yard every other year.  AND no haven't worn chaps for years, don't even have them.

[hubcapsc]

And Yeah I have two electric chainsaws, one for larger projects and one for use with a pole.

Me too  ... I used a "zvwoobah" saw on a pole for years, the first time I used my chainsaw
version I said to Carolyn, "If this thing ever breaks I'm going to get another one right away!"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA

After I got my "full size" (not quite really) electric chainsaw I gave my Husqvarna saw
to Stanley Steamer.

-Mike "come on battery technology, I want an electric motorcycle"

[Ramie]

I've got a hunting friend that trims trees for a living.  No boom truck just tree climbers and ropes.  He trimmed 5 large trees for me last fall and it's amazing to watch him climb the trees, chain saw hanging form a rope on his waist swinging on another rope from branch to branch.

[KY,Dave (AKA Misunderstood)]

Don't be this guy and buy some chainsaw chaps. The chaps are a fraction of the cost of getting this stitched up the cost of a emergency visit etc not to mention the pain that comes with it.... In the blink of the eye is how long it took to rip my leg open.

Dang Joe !! Popped in on Gordon today and he told me you had an interesting pic on here. Heal up Brother.

Mike, Looks good. I've had skilled tree people work some trees near my and watching those that know what they're doing is amazing.

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And Yeah I have two electric chainsaws, one for larger projects and one for use with a pole.

Me too  ... I used a "zvwoobah" saw on a pole for years, the first time I used my chainsaw
version I said to Carolyn, "If this thing ever breaks I'm going to get another one right away!"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA

After I got my "full size" (not quite really) electric chainsaw I gave my Husqvarna saw
to Stanley Steamer.

-Mike "come on battery technology, I want an electric motorcycle"

What make of electric Mike?

[hubcapsc]

And Yeah I have two electric chainsaws, one for larger projects and one for use with a pole.

Me too  ... I used a "zvwoobah" saw on a pole for years, the first time I used my chainsaw
version I said to Carolyn, "If this thing ever breaks I'm going to get another one right away!"...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bputeFGXEjA

After I got my "full size" (not quite really) electric chainsaw I gave my Husqvarna saw
to Stanley Steamer.

-Mike "come on battery technology, I want an electric motorcycle"

What make of electric Mike?

Ego...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tBCb8MkTAA

A friend has one, we were impressed when we saw it, Carolyn got us one for
Christmas a couple of years ago. It runs plenty long, I got a bigger 5 ah battery
recently and now it will go either until I'm done, or until I'm ready to stop.

It feels like a plastic toy without the battery, less like a toy after the battery is in.

Battery management (never run one battery down without the other one being on
the charger) is way easier than 2-stroke gas management, especially with today's
gas...

-Mike