Close. Little short of course. Had to drag them from the other side of the island and then re rig shorter
If I’d had my winch to drag, would have been a lot faster.
Hollow is usually the result of an unhealed too-large stem removal.
Another one : I bore cut it through the face for grins and it was somewhat hollow/rotten. Could have collapsed on me if the back wood was compromised, dummy.
Yes, on these sketchy boogers. Siberian elms again. The hollow plus codominant didn’t click as soon as it should have though. Should have just cut the stems off with their lean.
Reds are dead and gone. Yellows not healthy. Yellow circle has the widowmaker limb.
Green checks are volunteers, I think I will recommend they be transplanted.
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…
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...
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.