Donald Lehman
Well-known Member
You know the ones I'm talking about. 200 plus years old, 5-6 feet across the base, seven feet high trunk branches out into 7-8 14-18 inch branches that reach 40-50 feet in the air.
Got three of them to take down. All are 80% or more dead. Lotsa wood per tree, but a real pinta to take down, block up and split. A twenty inch bar ain't gonna fell them or block up the trunk. Twenty four inch bar might do it. We'll see. May end up going after a 30 inch bar before we finish all three. If those trunks are solid all the way through, 6 hp. is gonna seem like barely enough. The 385XP is gonna get a real workout.
Wonder how many maple syrup spouts are buried in those suckers????????? (cringe!)
Got three of them to take down. All are 80% or more dead. Lotsa wood per tree, but a real pinta to take down, block up and split. A twenty inch bar ain't gonna fell them or block up the trunk. Twenty four inch bar might do it. We'll see. May end up going after a 30 inch bar before we finish all three. If those trunks are solid all the way through, 6 hp. is gonna seem like barely enough. The 385XP is gonna get a real workout.
Wonder how many maple syrup spouts are buried in those suckers????????? (cringe!)