Firewooding 2020-2021 Season

[Leadeye]

Dead ash gets brittle like patience says, I have the gardener watch the upper parts of dead ash if I have to fell them. You never know what is going to break off and drop.

 

[Leadeye]

Great video IndyJohn!

 

[indyjohn]

Here’s when it hit the earth.. View attachment 168582 View attachment 168585

Nothing better than a tree on the ground!

 

[indyjohn]

Dead ash gets brittle like patience says, I have the gardener watch the upper parts of dead ash if I have to fell them. You never know what is going to break off and drop.

Leadeye speaks the truth here. Probably kills more loggers than the trunk falling on them.

 

[tmschuller]

Nothing better than a tree on the ground!

This one had me worried with the split in the middle and the lean in the opposite direction ... I was cutting about should high and that 046 gets a little heavy! I also had a dog on the saw break and couldn’t get any leverage. Just ordered 2 new ones

 

[Leadeye]

These days when dropping a tree, my strategy is to use the tractor and front loader to get a push in the direction I want it to go. I cut while under the bucket which gives me some protection from branches falling. Best of all is what John says, get at them after the good Lord puts them on the ground for you.

 

[indyjohn]

 

[Bugzilla]

Finished cutting the last dead oak that I had felled a week ago. Stacked all the small stuff in the shed, splitting pieces out of the way. Done with wood for the season, but will probably take a load to a buddy. Pays with good foreign brewski’s, and some cash.

 

[indyjohn]

This one had me worried with the split in the middle and the lean in the opposite direction ... I was cutting about should high and that 046 gets a little heavy! I also had a dog on the saw break and couldn’t get any leverage. Just ordered 2 new ones

Man! How do you manage to break a dog? I've had a couple of scrapes where I was worried that I was going to bend the bar, but those dogs seem to be pretty sturdy.

 

[tmschuller]

Man! How do you manage to break a dog? I've had a couple of scrapes where I was worried that I was going to bend the bar, but those dogs seem to be pretty sturdy.

Not sure but it broke at where it mounts on the saw. It’s an older 046 but runs/works great.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

How do you manage to break a dog?

Rub their nose in it?

 

[Leadeye]

Not sure but it broke at where it mounts on the saw. It’s an older 046 but runs/works great.

I use an 046 as my primary saw, I'll keep an eye out for that. It's a great saw, but I'll have to get a longer bar in the future or another saw, as my forest ages the trees are getting bigger around at the base.

 

[indyjohn]

I use an 046 as my primary saw, I'll keep an eye out for that. It's a great saw, but I'll have to get a longer bar in the future or another saw, as my forest ages the trees are getting bigger around at the base.

At 3 1/2 hp my 271 is a pretty good all around consumer saw. But I noticed in my last video more than a couple times it bogged on that heavy oak. Since I'm cutting mostly hardwoods I'd like to get something like the 462 with nearly twice the horsepower (and more than twice the money!).

 

[yetti462]

My problem with wood cutting is as i sit in a treestand I'm eyeing what is easy getting. As soon as the tags and freezer are full I'll be back at it.

 

[Leadeye]

At 3 1/2 hp my 271 is a pretty good all around consumer saw. But I noticed in my last video more than a couple times it bogged on that heavy oak. Since I'm cutting mostly hardwoods I'd like to get something like the 462 with nearly twice the horsepower (and more than twice the money!).

That beech tree in some of your videos looks like it's about 2" in diameter.

 

[indyjohn]

That beech tree in some of your videos looks like it's about 2' in diameter.

Every bit of 2 ft. But I am suspicious that it is hollow. Some Saturday this winter I'm going to try and cut the base and let the root ball drop back into the hole it made. It fell across the lane to the target area of the 50 yd range. So I have an incentive to cut it up.

 

[Leadeye]

I agree, beech trees like that I've cut up in the past are usually hollow. You may find varmints inside.

I can say that anything I've cut like that with a tipped up root ball, stayed tipped up. Cut up a pig nut hickory last month that was that way.

 

[indyjohn]

I agree, beech trees like that I've cut up in the past are usually hollow. You may find varmints inside.

I can say that anything I've cut like that with a tipped up root ball, stayed tipped up. Cut up a pig nut hickory last month that was that way.

Yep, it may stay in place. It went down in April of 2019 and a lot of the dirt from the root ball has washed into the hole.

 

[Leadeye]

When you cut through it have the OG handy with a gun, I've had angry raccoons come out of a hollow tree before.

 

[indyjohn]

When you cut through it have the OG handy with a gun, I've had angry raccoons come out of a hollow tree before.

Noted.