Am I Crazy?

Agreed, drop them as big as you can get away with. We have machines for the most part to deal with the wood so as said earlier we get our notch as close to the ground as possible saves flushing off the stump before we grind and a job like that our foreman would have the grinder right behind it so we can grind when the wood is being loaded.
 
RopeShield said:
Soft as you can. As low as you can. As flat as you can.
A cracked basement claim is my worry.
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I hear ya--no basements here in Tidewater, VA (they'd be in-ground pools) but that doesn't rule out cracked foundation claims.
 
Slightly crazy may have been fellin it with that crown still intact... looks like it may have just gone past the mail boxes and filled the street nicely . Not too tall to hit the Harley across the street right? ..Okay remove one mail box or both and its no longer crazy. Good work .
 
ontheropes said:
Agreed, drop them as big as you can get away with. We have machines for the most part to deal with the wood so as said earlier we get our notch as close to the ground as possible saves flushing off the stump before we grind and a job like that our foreman would have the grinder right behind it so we can grind when the wood is being loaded.
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Yea--I had my 066 with a 28" bar--I would have liked to cut it lower. I compensated the best I could by really opening that face up.
 
Lately I've been using the face cut Mark Chisolm explained in a video awhile back. I like it a lot. It's the one where you cut the angled top cut (a steep one) first, and set your felling direction with it, rather than with the horizontal cut. Much easier IMO to line up the corners with the horizontal cut (2nd) than it is with the sloped cut. I also like that you're setting your direction at the start of the angled cut, by lining up the sight line or handle bar, rather than when you're finishing the horizontal cut. You can basically get it started on line, forget about it, and stop cutting when the angled cut is deep enough and as perfectly level as possible. And then a simple horizontal cut to finish the notch, with much less chance of overlaps, or cutting too deep of a face due to making directional corrections. My aim seems to better with this system too, not that it was ever bad. Just less manipulation needed on the back cut.
 
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TreeLogic said:
Lately I've been using the face cut Mark Chisolm explained in a video awhile back, and I like it a lot. It's the one where you cut the angled top cut (a steep one) first, and set your felling direction with it, rather than with the horizontal cut. Much easier IMO to line up the corners with the horizontal cut (2nd) than it is with the sloped cut. I also like that you're setting your direction at the start of the angled cut, by lining up the sight line or handle bar, rather than when you're finishing the horizontal cut. You can basically get it started on line, forget about it, and stop cutting when the angled cut is deep enough and as perfectly level as possible.
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Interesting--that Mark Chisolm guy is always coming up with something clever.
 
Treetopflyer said:
Slightly crazy may have been fellin it with that crown still intact... looks like it may have just gone past the mail boxes and filled the street nicely . Not too tall to hit the Harley across the street right? ..Okay remove one mail box or both and its no longer crazy. Good work .
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LOL!! I guess you're crazy too, because the thought crossed my mind--if only for a second. But the Master Chief who drove in on that Harley would have had some strong words for anyone who blocked his street off with a fallen tree.
 
tc262 said:
I would have dropped that stub whole too. Looks like it could have been a good canidate for a crane job as well.
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Of all the companies in the area that estimated it, the customer told me, the only ones who wanted the job were bringing a crane.
 
Showed them. Crane abuse is NOT okay! I love urban felling. It takes all the adrenaline from all the small cuts and puts it into one big shot! No matter how sure I am about dropping a tree I'm never "sure" until it goes where I want it, how I want it.
 
tc262 said:
I love bringing in a crane when I can. Turns a long day of technical rigging into a couple hour job with a super easy cleanup.
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Yea, I need to get with Steve Connally and get some training on that crane thing--sure seems to make a lot of sense.
 
tc262 said:
I love bringing in a crane when I can. Turns a long day of technical rigging into a couple hour job with a super easy cleanup.
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Agreed. They keep things nice and clean. For me I'm at the point where I enjoy doing manual TDs. Plus the trees where I live are quite small. A lot of crane overuse around me in my opinion.
 
Hoowasat said:
I agree that basements are scarce around here, but I lived in a couple houses having basements in Newport News and Yorktown.
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True...there is a pool/ I mean basement, right across the street from me here in Norfolk. But, I don't think they get much use out of it--probably better used for storing canned goods, or as a root cellar.
 
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