Who is cutting wood?

[Buster Highmen]

I got wood.

[plugboots]

The middle one might make a neat little coffee table

[Buster Highmen]

The middle one might make a neat little coffee table

I have even bigger rounds. Problem is no where to put the table.

[plugboots]

Oh well, it’ll burn nice.

[bodywhomper]

Moving oak

My oldest kiddo and I recently blazed a trail to get a truck and trailer behind our house. So much easier than a wheelbarrow!

[XXX-er]

Chain saw question:
Can old gas cause a chainsaw to run for a while, then cut out and refuse to start until cooler?

I did not store the saw with gas in it; I ran it out of gas last spring before I stored it (duh), but the gas I put in was at least 2 years old, premixed.

With last weeks storm damage, I had to use up some old gas, but the saw was cutting out after it got warmed up.

Can this be a function of the old gas or do I need to get a tune up? It was running fine last spring.

When gas is old i put it in my truck, we are talking about maybe 10$ worth of fuel here so IME the hassles and problems resulting from running old fuel out weigh the $$$ savings of using that old fuel in the saw and it will burn ok in your truck

[bodywhomper]

Friend is back. We’re removing 2 sapling oaks growing under the canopy and over the garage as they seek light while their trunks rot out.

[Meadow Skipper]

^ Friends like that are gold.

[bodywhomper]

Agree! He’s literally hanging up his spurs after this job.

[bodywhomper]

Oaks are on the ground. I have quite a bit of clean-up. Check out the rot in the one trunk! So much for “holding” wood. He left that much holding wood at first because the saw stalled (fouled spark plug, I hope).




Im very appreciative of my friend (I paid him, of course). I hope he enjoys his “retirement,” about 40 years of climbing and dropping trees all over the country. He’s got some good stories.

I have another friend who is younger that climbs. He’s lives at kirkwood, which is about a 3 hr drive from me. I’d love to see him, but hopefully, we won’t need this kind of tree work again for a while.

[bodywhomper]

Why are there two chainsaw-related threads?

I dropped the biggest pine tree on the property this morning with a lot of patience, coaching, and guidance from my friend. He did a pretty good job staying out of the exhaust. I’ve never cut down something remotely close to this big before. Felled it right along our property line. It’s a 24” bar.



The ponderosa pine died this winter. It showed all the signs of death due to western pine beetle. I counted 107 rings.

[neufox47]

Timber! What is that about 40” diameter?

[bodywhomper]

Measured 45” with bark removed. ~51” with bark.

[bodywhomper]

I’m looking for a useful video tutorial on different cuts and techniques. My local library had a copy of Fundamentals of General Tree Work, but the copy is “lost.” Currently, im curious about the various cuts described in the book, such as the “slice cut” and “salami cut.” My googling seems to suck because I ain’t finding shit.

[XXX-er]

Goggle BC faller's and you will find all kinds of vids

spoken in good english eh

as opposed to cracker-ese

[bodywhomper]

Thanks. I forgot about those. I think I’ve seen them all. I don’t remember them getting into that sort of detail, but I’ll check them out again.

[d-root]

@bodywhomper...just my .2 cents. Keep it simple. Sure, different types of cuts have their place. Master the basics. Master your cuts. Levels cuts, even holding wood(proper use of gunning sights), appropriate stump shot, etc. There is no need to get all fancy if the basics are not dialed. I use the conventional cut most of the time. Humbolt, quarter back cut, and boring back cut are other types I will use and that is it. We are always students and we are always learning. Have fun.

[bodywhomper]

Thanks for the suggestions. I’m planning on pruning multi trunk oaks sometime in the near future. Several trunks/limbs need to come down with some simple rigging through branches notches that can be set up from the ground, but open notch cuts to remove the limbs/trunks won’t work because of structures. My nearby tree cutting friend is now on the road for an indefinite amount of time and unable to consult.

I have this large pondo on the ground (above post) with limbs approaching 12” diameter at their butts. I figured that I could practice a few non-open notch type cuts while limbing that tree before moving to the oaks.

Speaking of butts, just a few ants here:

[Game Over]

Ive gotten way more conservative recently. Decided to hire way more stuff than in the past.

Our top feller quit this spring after a close call and we lost a very experienced neighbor who was clearing storm damage at his place. Not sure what happened just know he didn’t come home one night and they went up and found him pinned under a log.

[bodywhomper]

^^^ that sucks.

[bodywhomper]

Some tools

[bodywhomper]

FWIW, I found a demo vid.
https://youtu.be/eUQ1p2QPdxU

I have plenty of limbs on the big pine that I cut down to practice this before I use this technique on my oak. The oak limb/trunk that I need to remove is not very large diameter,

[bodywhomper]

Recommendations of how to seal this up? It’s an oak. Already showing signs of rot. Boiled linseed oil?

[Game Over]

My arborist buddy uses expanding foam insulation for cracks and cavities.

[~mikey b]

I’ve seen big oaks patched with concrete or even bricks and mortar.