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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: sumpnz on August 14, 2011, 10:54:54 PM
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Pushed over my first tree today. We've got a backhoe on site for the week, mostly to fix the driveway and do other grading work on the property.
But, this morning I went out and dug around the trunk to bust up the roots. Took a couple tries of pushing with the equipement, then digging out some more around it, but it finally went over. Probably a 40' tall Alder that was really 2 trees that had grown together, and then one had Y'd off with a another big trunk.
Should get at least 2-3 cords between that Alder and a few smallish Birch trees I'd cut down the day before.
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Pushed over my first tree today. We've got a backhoe on site for the week, mostly to fix the driveway and do other grading work on the property.
But, this morning I went out and dug around the trunk to bust up the roots. Took a couple tries of pushing with the equipement, then digging out some more around it, but it finally went over. Probably a 40' tall Alder that was really 2 trees that had grown together, and then one had Y'd off with a another big trunk.
Should get at least 2-3 cords between that Alder and a few smallish Birch trees I'd cut down the day before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI [popcorn]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI [popcorn]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmQLccLYOYY&feature=related
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Pushed over my first tree today
Be very careful with that...cutting the roots by digging and pushing over is an efficient method, but be very careful. Does the backhoe have a FOPS (Falling Object Protective Structure) canopy or cab or is it just a normal ROPS canopy/cab
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"We" used this to clear a 1/4 acre of trees and brush to expand my garden this spring.
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Basically turned a bunch of this
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into this
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI [popcorn]
The patchouli is strong in this group.
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Not a lumberjack until you mark a spot and then cut down the tree with a saw or aze so that it falls exactly on your mark :P
Or for more sport you could drop it right between two brand new pickups =D
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I noticed the crying hippy talking about "driving" by trees and bemoaning that they were cut down or dying. He's a bigot! Why doesn't he cry over the oil that he murders by turning it into gas to power his car. I talked to my oil today and he says that turning him into gas is a travesty and he won't stand for it anymore. He plans to vapor lock anyone who does.
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Not a lumberjack until you mark a spot and then cut down the tree with a saw or aze so that it falls exactly on your mark :P
Or for more sport you could drop it right between two brand new pickups =D
double points if one truck is yours or your bosses triple score if truck is wifes
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Okay my question is how many plants did they kill getting out to the area to cry about dead trees.
Grampster he probably drives a Prius, so that makes it okay. /sarcasm
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About the worst I've ever heard were the enviro-idiots who protested the logging of fire killed trees over in the Bitterroot.
They claimed that it was a travesty to desecrate the dead bodies of the trees, and adding insult to injury.
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Maybe the greenies would be OK with tree-cutting, if they fell on humans. Maybe if they were wealthy white Republicans. Or, better yet, babies.
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Be very careful with that...cutting the roots by digging and pushing over is an efficient method, but be very careful. Does the backhoe have a FOPS (Falling Object Protective Structure) canopy or cab or is it just a normal ROPS canopy/cab
It has a solid roof on it. Had quite a few sticks that broke off while I was pushing on it. None of them fell all that close to me, but it was nice knowing I had some degree of protection.
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It has a solid roof on it. Had quite a few sticks that broke off while I was pushing on it. None of them fell all that close to me, but it was nice knowing I had some degree of protection.
Dead branches and tops are killers, so keep an eye out for 'em.
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Dead branches and tops are killers, so keep an eye out for 'em.
IIRC they are called Widow Makers.
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Well, no more trees coming down for a day or two. SWMBO's step-dad broke the back hoe. Actually it looked like a fatigue failure of the pin that holds the bucket on. Looks like we won't be charged for the repair even though there was quite a bit of colateral damage to the lugs and bushings, and whatnot. Apparently he was in between a couple roots of a stump that needed to come out curling the bucket to break them when it let go.