Today....

A lady I don't know stopped me last evening while I was out walking, and asked me if I was the person who did free tree work. She was renting a house where the owner had hired a low cost tree service to remove a big pine that had been killed by bark beetles. They had cut the top twenty feet of the tree out, and they let it fall in one piece. On the way down it broke some limbs in a nearby tree, and those were now hanging by threads near her children's play area. The budget tree guys didn't have climbing gear to reach the hanging limbs, so they couldn't do anything.

I told her I'd take care of the limbs, and came back with my stuff. I got a tie-in point as high as I could, climbed up to where the limbs were, and worked my way far enough out on the other side of the tree to reach them. I was able to cut and drop the smaller one with no problem. The outer end of the larger one was hung in the top of a shorter oak nearby. I cut it loose, and lowered the butt end to let it rest on a lower limb. I dropped down, pulled it and the top of the oak towards me, and cut and dropped it in several pieces. I had to leave two little pine branches in the oak, but they weren't big enough to hurt anyone. There was no damage to the oak, and the cleanup was easy.

It's so much fun to be able to tell someone I can do something that most people think is difficult and crazy dangerous, then go do it like it's no problem at all, and have it turn out well.
 
@oldoakman Does that pile also contain car tires and diesel fuel?

EDIT: I’m sorry, I meant @Boomslang …car tires and diesel fuel? I was doing some clearing work in the Raleigh Durham Triangle area and learned that’s how they do it there. Fell everything, load the save out, dozer the rest into a pile and light it up!
 
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oceans said:
@oldoakman Does that pile also contain car tires and diesel fuel?

EDIT: I’m sorry, I meant @Boomslang …car tires and diesel fuel? I was doing some clearing work in the Raleigh Durham Triangle area and learned that’s how they do it there. Fell everything, load the save out, dozer the rest into a pile and light it up!
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Back in the day I have had some awesome fires using that method. Put the tire down, fill it with as much diesel as you can, pile brush, more diesel and light with a highway flare. Better yet, diesel and gas mixed.
 
My brother started a huge brush pile on fire this way about 7 years ago. I told him it was too big to maintain control of and that he should divide it up into 3 piles with a big gap between each pile and he scoffed at my words of caution. About an hour in, he decided he better try and divide the now burning pile up using his backhoe. He then said he was going to bury it instead, to which I again cautioned him against doing because it was way too hot and big(about 40' in diameter). He pushed dirt over all of it after we soaked it with hoses for an hour and went to bed. I woke up at 12:30am to the sight and sound of flames shooting skyward out of a now superheated gigantic Dutch oven hahaha. We spent the next three hours with hoses in the middle of the night and the fire finally stopped smoldering about a week later. The Good Old Days!
 
I used to help burn the brush piles left over from clearing for new construction. One time there was a left over scrap pile left over from the framers. My boss told me to light it up. I thought it was a little too close to the house and a little bit too large of a pile, but I wasn't about to question my boss. That pile got so hot it melted the Tyvek wrap on the house and I moved my truck after the paint started smelling. My boss was pretty scared after all that.
 
Njdelaney said:
My brother started a huge brush pile on fire this way about 7 years ago. I told him it was too big to maintain control of and that he should divide it up into 3 piles with a big gap between each pile and he scoffed at my words of caution. About an hour in, he decided he better try and divide the now burning pile up using his backhoe. He then said he was going to bury it instead, to which I again cautioned him against doing because it was way too hot and big(about 40' in diameter). He pushed dirt over all of it after we soaked it with hoses for an hour and went to bed. I woke up at 12:30am to the sight and sound of flames shooting skyward out of a now superheated gigantic Dutch oven hahaha. We spent the next three hours with hoses in the middle of the night and the fire finally stopped smoldering about a week later. The Good Old Days!
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Reminds me of the bark piles years ago where I used to work. It would get ramped up by the dozer and eventually begin burning from the center from all the compression and heat. Only way to stop the fire was to tear it apart and send it through the horizontal grinder. It always got much worse before it got better. 24 hour shift until the pile was all mulched.
 
Jehinten said:
Today was rough lol. First day of getting my CDL. 8 hrs of classroom setting
each day this week.

It's a long time to sit and watch a screen.
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Sounds brutal. Are you doing the process outlined by the new law?

There’s a small chance the company I work for will do it in-house which will reinvigorate my motivation to get it.
 
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