Today....

[Bendroctanus]

Cottonwood today
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Stanky….

Nice work!

 

[Matias]

Stanky….

Nice work!

good ol' rottonwood

 

[oceans]

Cottonwood today
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Cottonwood Rottenwood. My first back cut stink bath is burned into my memory. Wish I had known of such a thing beforehand, but kneeling during a back cut beneath a giant spigot of stank was a bad idea!

 

[Neill]

My nostrils were too frozen to smell anything

 

[davidwyby]

Siberian elm, similar to rottonwood. Looked like a sprayer coming off the top of the bar in the back cut.

 

[davidwyby]

Lean towards house, fence. Tether.
Looking down out the bottom


I think most of the trouble with these trees was that they had too large of limbs pruned off which introduced rot.


left lean.

 

[Njdelaney]

Siberians are thirsty mofos. They're like a hose at the stump when they're big like that especially!

 

[Matias]

Cottonwood Rottenwood. My first back cut stink bath is burned into my memory. Wish I had known of such a thing beforehand, but kneeling during a back cut beneath a giant spigot of stank was a bad idea!

The nastiness that often comes out of the rotten old black oaks around here is hideous, and I too am left scarred by the horror of having to chunk down this massive vertical mud pit 30' tall 32" at a time. My whole body was saturated in mush by the time I got down.

 

[Bendroctanus]

The nastiness that often comes out of the rotten old black oaks around here is hideous, and too am left scarred by the horror of having to chunk down this massive vertical mud pit 30' tall 32" at a time. My whole body was saturated in mush by the time I got down.

A sordid privilege to be blessed by the reek…

 

[Matias]

A sordid privilege to be blessed by the reek…

A rite of passage that my mentors thoroughly enjoyed watching

 

[Bendroctanus]

A rite of passage that my mentors thoroughly enjoyed watching

 

[Serf Life]

Nice 2188(?) @davidwyby we run a 36" on ours and quite like it.

 

[davidwyby]

Nice 2188(?) @davidwyby we run a 36" on ours and quite like it.

That’s a 2175 (372xpw, 5more ccs) ported by ECsaws(no longer with us). 34” bar.

I also have a 2188 36” that I wished I’d had on that job. It would have reached thru those trees and made it a little faster and easier, and we were in a hurry. Good practice though. I was also running a 30” on my 461.

 

[davidwyby]

Picked up some Euc rounds (liftgate FTW), split them on the truck, and delivered.



Junk termite elm, desert bonfire firewood delivery…


…and some for me

 

[davidwyby]

Delivery customer had a limb come out of his Euc. Some kind of wound/burl looking thing…but also appears termite eaten?



I think we should take this limb over his woodshed off…

 

[Matias]

Delivery customer had a limb come out of his Euc. Some kind of wound/burl looking thing…but also appears termite eaten?

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It's hard to say really. Was that branch threatening anything?

Check out the pictures of the Arthur Clough oak.

 

[davidwyby]

It's hard to say really. Was that branch threatening anything?

Check out the pictures of the Arthur Clough oak.

The first branch fell right next to the kids play eqpt

The second is over the woodshed

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Matias]

The first branch fell right next to the kids play eqpt

The second is over the woodshed

Yea, I would definitely have taken the one over the play equipment, but I would probably just let the one over the woodshed roll on, unless it's a really wet climate where protecting the wood stash from moisture is a mission critical element. After all, what could it really hurt?

 

[davidwyby]

Yea, I would definitely have taken the one over the play equipment, but I would probably just let the one over the woodshed roll on, unless it's a really wet climate where protecting the wood stash from moisture is a mission critical element. After all, what could it really hurt?

It would probably flatten it

They bigger than they look