flyingmosstreen
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- Location
- Rochester
Today....
- Thread starter Mark Chisholm
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Yeah, around here that's about all he will need.
The witch of November
My wife (who turned 59 today) is barely 100 lbs and has back and shoulder problems. It's hard for her to split and stack a lot of wood, so I didn't want to make the firewood rack too big. (Kidding)
I mean you bring it home only fair that she splits it.
I finally finished filling my woodshed today, or at least 8/10 of the rows, which will be plenty for the season given that it is late November already. Just like chipping brush, it is kind of shocking how small a pile of material breaks down into.
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Treeaddict
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- Location
- Bel Air
Had a friend over today to help me finish the 130’ tulip poplar in my backyard. He ran the ropes perfectly. This is by far the largest tree I’ve worked in. I started learning trees from media (books, forums, YouTube, etc) about 14 months ago. I have a full time plumbing job and a family but I engage in tree care at every opportunity. The goal from the beginning was to get good enough to tackle the poplar which would bisect our home. It feels good to have reached that goal. I removed most of the canopy last week but didn’t get pictures. It was extremely windy but safe enough. No way if it was in leaf though.
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A few from the last week or so. 45' bushy pine top, picture perfect hinge but getting distracted by the flock of birds in the distance, taking down large dying cedars, and unfortunately taking down the largest yew I've ever seen around here; one I'd admired for many years of working on this property, that suddenly died this summer. We have LOT of dying trees these days....
Fivepoints
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- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
We finished up a big job early yeaterday. Got some time to deal with our wood lot. We keep accumulating stumps which dont stack well so I decided to split them with our screw splitter.
This is the end results of a good sized bradford pear stump.
This is the end results of a good sized bradford pear stump.
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Fun stump from yesterday. Had to build up the soil on the right side due to the slope. Definitely wishing I had a remote for this one. Super tight in the rhododendrons 
chiselbit
Been here a while
That looks pretty slick. What do you do with the stump material after you break it down like that?
Fivepoints
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- East of Huntsville, AL
It works surprisingly well. We either throw the pieces in our bonfire after they season or just let them decompose in the chip pile. They burn much cleaner and easier vs whole stumps. I keep looking at horizontal and tub grinders to run this kinda stuff and logs that are no good for firewood or lumber.
chiselbit
Been here a while
Matias
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Butte County
Near Chester?
chiselbit
Been here a while
CalDor fire/burn. Near grizzly flat, Placerville area
Matias
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Butte County
Man, I forgot how much it burned down that way. I have worked out in some of the scars, and I still struggle to wrap my head around how much has burned.
So I've been using the Bashlin aluminum spurs with Big Buck velcro wrap pads for a few years now, and have always been happy with them. I got curious to try something different and to have a second/backup set of lightweight spurs, so bought a set of the Bucklite Titaniums with Big Buck wraps and tried them today for the first time.
The Bucks have a very different spur profile than the Bashlins which I expected to throw me off after so long on the Bashlins, but it felt pretty natural, maybe because I've spent years on Steel Bucks in the past? It did take some getting used to in the tree, but I noticed they pulled back out of the trunk easier which was nice. The pads were stiff being new, but will get more comfortable with break-in. The wider velcro lowers are more comfortable than the 'normal' style lower straps. The feel of the two sets is quite comparable in my opinion, as opposed to some Geckos I tried which just didn't work for me ergonomically, for whatever reason. Overall I'm very happy with both sets and will keep both. Oh, for those curious, the Titaniums are 7.49 pounds as I have them setup, compared to the Bashlins 7.6 pounds; almost the same, I couldn't feel any weight difference on my feet.
Took the whole dead tree down with one tank in the 400c with a 20" in one hour. Limbed on the way up, sent a top, snap cuts down the trunk, a big undermined piece once the wood got bigger, then the big log from the ground.
The Bucks have a very different spur profile than the Bashlins which I expected to throw me off after so long on the Bashlins, but it felt pretty natural, maybe because I've spent years on Steel Bucks in the past? It did take some getting used to in the tree, but I noticed they pulled back out of the trunk easier which was nice. The pads were stiff being new, but will get more comfortable with break-in. The wider velcro lowers are more comfortable than the 'normal' style lower straps. The feel of the two sets is quite comparable in my opinion, as opposed to some Geckos I tried which just didn't work for me ergonomically, for whatever reason. Overall I'm very happy with both sets and will keep both. Oh, for those curious, the Titaniums are 7.49 pounds as I have them setup, compared to the Bashlins 7.6 pounds; almost the same, I couldn't feel any weight difference on my feet.
Took the whole dead tree down with one tank in the 400c with a 20" in one hour. Limbed on the way up, sent a top, snap cuts down the trunk, a big undermined piece once the wood got bigger, then the big log from the ground.
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The thing about spurs is that I have to imagine that as long as systems are designed 'within the normal range,' there isn't exactly a right and wrong setup, just something that works better for some and worse for others. I mean, I'm sure there are plenty of happy people using Geckos who'd find my setup uncomfortable...
