What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late?

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Just having fun with the saw in the woods. I expected this /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif, so I left it to the laws of nature.
The tree is in a creek bed. So how did I cut it?

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #2  
with great difficulty.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #4  
I'll bet you put your gaff's on, belted up, and away you went? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #5  
You went up in the tractor bucket?
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late?
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Hey, Look close at the cut. Is that not a straight line or what?
Wonder how talented I am? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I'll let you all keep guessing for a few more hours.
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #7  
Mike, the tree was down possibly by the wind, you cut the top and with help of your powerful tractor set it back up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #8  
Looks like an aspen tree, and possibly you did what I have done before --- cut the top out for un-restricted 360° shot at a deer with a bow from a tree stand.

You may well get the "that's dangerous" commentors with a cut that high and no escape route when felling the top.
/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Or you cut it off when it was laying down on the ground (wind-blown or pushed over), and then stood it back up straight (either from its own stress relief, or with help) to take the 'picture'.

I don't make much sense from the title, so maybe this is a long ways from what you really did. Curious here. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / What not to cut with a chain saw.... too late? #9  
I think it's a beech - aspens don't grow in Virginia...

I agree with you - it's in a stream bed, so the water from the massive amounts of rain we have had this year exposed the roots, pushed/fell over, cut it, propped it back up.

Mark

Oh!!!! Or it was on the ground and cutting the top off relieved enough weight so that the roots pulled it back upright!!!!???
 
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I go for the tractor and you in the front end loader.

murph
 

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