Wisdom regarding using a lift to dismantle a pin oak

I am so glad that I can burn things all winter and spring. If you could flop it, chop it, and burn it, I think it could be gone in one easy day.

That would be impressive, It’s a heck of a lot of limbs to buck down and load / burn.
 
That would be impressive, It’s a heck of a lot of limbs to buck down and load / burn.
That's how I got good at it, even with green trees. I've cleared a forested 2.5 acres this way, though not all in one go. I did have to make sure to have enough dead wood handy, so one might need to bring a bit of prepared firewood to burn a green tree in a day, and you gotta have space to make a fairly large fire, as it has to burn hot enough. you get all the smaller branches on it as soon as you have a hot fire going, which I start as soon as the tree is down. It may take a propane torch to keep things hot enough to not smoke out the neighborhood, but you just keep adding branches as fast as you can to build up a big nest, and then start bucking rounds off and throw them on until you can't stack any higher. It quickly gets too hot to get close enough to add more, so you back off and have a snack while it settles down a bit, then keep adding until you can't get near again. Rinse and repeat until the thing is gone. I have burned trees with twice that in two days, so that's where I figure one day for that one.

Edit: just re read the numbers, and that log may take a bit of time to finish burning. I would have to hang out through the evening to get this one burnt. I was thinking 40" trunk, but 52" is a lotta meat.
 
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NFW... maybe in a cul de sac... but those oak limbs are almost certainly going to poke holes in the driveway. And you can't necessarily see wires etc that may be obstacles in the pictures... the tree be too tall for the DZ, even if you could protect the driveway...

Start bombing....
I think there was a non-posted smiley from an inside joke about @davidwyby having the felling bug.
 
That depends on what else your working with. If cut and stacked into a pile, I could have that tree loaded, raked and leaf blowed in about an hour; solo.

It typically takes me 30 mins to fill my 50 cuyd grapple truck, then another 30 to rake, blow and finish loading that smaller debris.
If we had a spot to get rid of tree debris via grapple truck there’s no faster way!
Chipping is a process , but without a way to dump mass tree debris and easily rid chips it’s better for us unfortunately
 

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