Becareful What You Do....

[Gord Baker]

That is called "Barber Chair" in Forest Speak.

 

[k0ua]

That's cool but I'm just wondering how you would get that down without crushing yourself or damaging the tractor further? Slowly chunks out of the top of the tree and let the weight of the tractor set it back down?

They used an excavator to let it down

 

[CausticUrbanCoast]

That's cool but I'm just wondering how you would get that down without crushing yourself or damaging the tractor further? Slowly chunks out of the top of the tree and let the weight of the tractor set it back down?

You cut it down properly!

 

[ning]

That's cool but I'm just wondering how you would get that down without crushing yourself or damaging the tractor further? Slowly chunks out of the top of the tree and let the weight of the tractor set it back down?

They used a big excavator to pick up the tractor.

I'd probably do what you suggested as well, but you're chancing the barber chair completing its promise of destruction by detaching at the base, dropping the tractor hard on the ground - and then the rest of the log on top of it too.

 

[ljjhouser]

That would make you stop and take a better look at the posibilities before taking that kind of action. Looks like the wedge cut is not very deep.

 

[Oaktree]

The ONLY wood I burned for 18 years - Ponderosa pine. That's all I have here on the property. I seasoned( stacked up to dry out) it for a full year before burning. It burned hot and provided good heat.

I never had any problems with creosote. Brush down the chimney every fall before starting the stove. Never got more than a quarter cup of creosote.

I don't know how ponderosa pine compares the the white pine we have here, but to me it's firewood of last resort...best used only for kindling. I use it in my workshop, but I'm only out there for a few hours at a time and I want something that burns hot, but doesn't need to last long. In the house, not so much.
Fortunately, we have plenty of hardwoods here, I feel bad for some of you westerners for whom evergreens are pretty much all there is for trees.

 

[Tony H]

Quick google took me to ODWTM, some actual video of the recovery in there at about 6 min mark.

The Morgana... Yuck.
All his sponsors, all the toys they send them and honestly, after seeing some of their videos, they are just a couple that stumble through and people are watching the videos and THINKING they know what they're doing. Scary

 

[TreeToad]

Here hold my beer immediately followed by first you say it then you do it. Dont see any in the snow??

 

[m1garand762]

That’s an old photo it’s been around at least 3 years and I believe at some point the person involved was on this site

 

[BenjiMac]

You know the tree you partially cut and it would not go down, so you tried pushing it over with your tractor....

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And no it was not me, don't own a blue tractor...

I pushed one over. The reason it would not go down was that it rocked back and trapped the chain saw, so no further cutting was possible. Pushed it the other way with my tractor, no problem.