- Location
- Orange, MA
So.....we chipped a 38\" dbh pine with a 9\" chipper
Stihl 460 w/ 25" bar for scale.
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First big real job on my own, getting creative. Posted pics last week of one 36" maple I rigged down with my brother. This past saturday was a big double stem sugar maple again right about 36" to drop the butt, bigger at the flush cut.
Sunday rigged down every damn limb and every block of wood on a 38" pine that was over a hedge, in the side of a hemlock, and over a perennial garden. In the 80-85' range. And to top it off, a nice big slab of granite set up as a bench right at the base of the pine, and all I could imagine was dropping the butt and cracking it right in half. Actually came up with a pretty sweet idea for the log, and didnt make a mark in the lawn, not so much as a divot. Cut 6 cookies off some of the rigged down log wood, about 10" thick and 24" diameter, layed them out in a grid where the end of the log would land, and we ripped a few of the log pieces in half, and layed them flat sides down on the cookies, so we'd have a TON of surface area taking the blow. From a green wood weight chart, I put the log at nearly 4 tons we dropped. Built up a few big pieces of wood on either side of the granite bench, anticipated which side it would roll off to, padded there as well and went off without a hitch!
The fun part was the fact I more or less climb on the side traveling up north to help a buddy out in NH who does landscaping and tree work. So I have all the climbing and rigging, and he supplies the heavy equipment. This job was down my neck of the woods, so he came down to help me out. Came down with his little old.......no idea what it is, but 9" capacity, and the feed wheels have no manual lift. We chipped every single last piece of the pine. I think we got at least 18-20 yards just out of the log wood. No other way to dispose of the wood, and they wanted it gone. He brought down his splitter, and I had my brother at the helm of the chipper. I cut all the log pieces to 16", cross cut them into quarters, we split it all down small enough to be fed into the chipper, and did it in only 2.5 hours! haha Granted it took nearly 7 hours to rig down every piece of the pine, but that went so much better than I had hoped!
Where theres a will, theres a way!
Stihl 460 w/ 25" bar for scale.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/jlacoy82/Trees-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/jlacoy82/Trees-2.jpg
First big real job on my own, getting creative. Posted pics last week of one 36" maple I rigged down with my brother. This past saturday was a big double stem sugar maple again right about 36" to drop the butt, bigger at the flush cut.
Sunday rigged down every damn limb and every block of wood on a 38" pine that was over a hedge, in the side of a hemlock, and over a perennial garden. In the 80-85' range. And to top it off, a nice big slab of granite set up as a bench right at the base of the pine, and all I could imagine was dropping the butt and cracking it right in half. Actually came up with a pretty sweet idea for the log, and didnt make a mark in the lawn, not so much as a divot. Cut 6 cookies off some of the rigged down log wood, about 10" thick and 24" diameter, layed them out in a grid where the end of the log would land, and we ripped a few of the log pieces in half, and layed them flat sides down on the cookies, so we'd have a TON of surface area taking the blow. From a green wood weight chart, I put the log at nearly 4 tons we dropped. Built up a few big pieces of wood on either side of the granite bench, anticipated which side it would roll off to, padded there as well and went off without a hitch!
The fun part was the fact I more or less climb on the side traveling up north to help a buddy out in NH who does landscaping and tree work. So I have all the climbing and rigging, and he supplies the heavy equipment. This job was down my neck of the woods, so he came down to help me out. Came down with his little old.......no idea what it is, but 9" capacity, and the feed wheels have no manual lift. We chipped every single last piece of the pine. I think we got at least 18-20 yards just out of the log wood. No other way to dispose of the wood, and they wanted it gone. He brought down his splitter, and I had my brother at the helm of the chipper. I cut all the log pieces to 16", cross cut them into quarters, we split it all down small enough to be fed into the chipper, and did it in only 2.5 hours! haha Granted it took nearly 7 hours to rig down every piece of the pine, but that went so much better than I had hoped!
Where theres a will, theres a way!
