It had to come down
Lots of tree with a small saw.
| I had to take down a couple of dead spruce that threatened my garage/workshop. While I should have taken a before picture, hind sight is 20/20 and I decided to work with what I had to show what a small saw, in this case a Stihl 025, could do. |
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| They were both over 60 feet high but the smallest was only about 16" on the butt with a fast taper. This one was over 24" on the butt and a slow taper. It was still 16" at 20' from the butt. The long branches filled the driveway. |
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| The smaller butt is to the right. |
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| I left a 2" hinge and used a rope and come-along since the tree was leaning toward the garage. Tense times waiting for it to fall. |
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| Here is another view as I went around the tree |
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| and looking straight up the driveway. On the right are the brush piles from the first tree. |
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| It took all day but finally there was another hugh brush pile |
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| some pretty big chunks of wood |
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| and some more wood and another brush pile. I will have to get one of the fellows in with a chipper. My wife seems to have something against all these brush piles, especially with another 5 or 6 smaller trees to come down. |
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| A few days later the brush is now chipped and piled. |
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| The wood has been moved to its own pile ready to be split. I consider this to be my new aerobics program. |
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