Live hollowed out trees. Dangerous to leave standing dangerous to drop. Well yesterday afternoon I did some " wind cutting ". This is where I directional hinge the leaning and hollow trees until I hear the first crack just before incoming high winds. They drop at night when no one is on the property, trespassers or not. Sounded like bombs going off last night. Now a few of my trails are safe again. The 22" diameter beech woke me from a dead sleep. Just a nerve tweaking pain. BTW...... I do not recommend this EVER. I do not use a regular chain saw. I use an extended pole limb saw. I studied that beech for months before making that first cut with a brand new saw blade and thoroughly cleaned saw.
OND. I was clearing shooting lanes today and needed to cut out a big boxelder tree that had tipped over but still rooted and growing. That thing had me nervous as hell whittling away at it. Horrible spiecies of tree to try n figger out.
Neighbors maple is looking more like a bonzai lately. Not much left of it. Hollowed out trunk, but the branches above are snapping not the lower sections. This was two Sunday's ago and then Saturday night.
We are surrounded by beech and they are all dying of blight. Told hubby that they need to go , but work has had him swamped the last 10 years! Lucky that our electric lines are buried but I need to unhook and drop the phone line to cut several of these. My woods cutting has him a tad more calm about my doing the ones near the house.. And propane tank. I only had one bad basswood hang up on me but we are having heavy gusting ,swirling winds right now so it should drop today.
I used to love dropping hallow trees that were on fire, you get that saw in there and it is like a blowtorch going out the top.
Being new here I've been gathering on what some of you do for a living. You combine 2 of my biggest fears, fire and crushed. You'll never find me doing a controlled burn.I'm a nut about camp fires and you'll never see me using a regular chain saw. I've seen the results of kick backs. We've lost a couple of professional loggers around here over the last few years. It may take my little pruning blade more time to go through a bigger tree,but I'm way away from pop backs ,snaps,twists. I have 2-3 escape routes cleared and buffer trees scoped on each. I can't say enough about a gas stihl pruning saw I've only had to replace one bar and in a 5 chain rotation worn out one chain(can't be sharpened any more). Not bad for over ten years.
Back pain is the pits , I have to say that sit ups done on a exercise ball has been the best thing for my lower back and butterfly and rowing has helped my upper back(the under shoulder blade stabbing pain)
I worked for the MN DNR division of forestry for 20 years, we get farmed out when our spring season ends. I was a crew boss for ten of the years and a strike team leader after that got to fight fire in 10 states and Canada. I am also one of the few that has operated a boat and a chainsaw in the BWCAW (a wilderness area in northern MN)
God bless everyone going through these horrible rain and storm events for weeks and weeks. I'm blessed to live on hill but our garden and trees really help us all summer and winter. My plants are starting to die because I can't get them planted. Fruit blossoms aren't getting pollination. I haven't even turned the garden over. Our well won't go dry,so there's the bright side.
Was at my brothers Saturday for a get together and he was telling everyone about his back. Said he had been taking tylenol daily to deal with it for the past couple years. Chiropractor didn't help, nothing he did excercising really helped it either. A little over a month ago he bought an inversion table. Said the first few days he didn't notice much, but soon thereafter he started noticing results. Only does it 3-4 minutes a day, says he is now completely pain free. May be my next purchase, he offered to buy me one but think it was the beer talking
I've been driving so much and spending so much time in my car at work it has been hard to escape. Been forcing myself to stand as much as possible. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
Are you kidding me it was at times the funnest job ever, the places in National parks and forests that I got paid to see, the experiences are well worth the price of worn out hips. I never got injured, I did get hurt a few times but that is part of it.
That's what makes guys that do this vital, you can enjoy a job that could turn bad on a dime and think it's fun. Great training for sure brings the safety, but Ma nature is a fickle creature at times. Bad hips, knees, back, and shoulders, may not seem an issue now, though as years progress so do those issues.
That is why I'm getting into saddle hunting, I can handle sitting up with my legs out level, I can stand a long time as long as I can shift weight on hips, but sitting with my legs bent and my upper torso weight down my spine kills my lower back and cramps my legs. The saddle allows my weight not to be a disc issue and I can shift. Now if I'm sitting in a stand it becomes a real issue to stand up.
Thanks CNN. Thanks for stoking the flames just in time for the summertime criminal craziness. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
