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Had to pull the 2N out of hibernation

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Larry O

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Had to pull the 2N out of hibernation yesterday, went to take a tree down in front of the house and my helper’s truck couldn’t get enough traction to keep tension on it so had to put the 2N in serves. We had taken one down last week and it settle back toward the house because we lost the tension and I didn’t want that again that one aged me enough in a split second. I guess I will keep it out now that spring is here. It sure was good to drive it around a bit.
This had been the first year I have used batter maintainers on the Hibernating tractors, all we had to do was put a little gas in the tank and it fired right up. Didn’t run real well but it worked (it is past tune-up time)
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Yes that one scare was enough and we thought we had it planed so good Notch cut good and site cleared but it still Settled back closing the gap and all most catching the saw
Larry
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i hate working on the ones under tension that start to twist and moan as you are cutting thru them.. UGH.. bad sound / feeling...
 
Yes but it was worse when the tension loosened and it settled back toward the house luckily the one in front didn’t once we got the 2N on the chain now there is one more jest like it at the other side of the front. The roots are going back under the house and about this age they start splitting and I don’t need one splitting and taking out something like a corner of the house
 
You need to get the plastic wedges that they use . They help the bar from getting pinched and help force tree to go the direction you want.
 
I'm certainly no expert when it comes to felling trees but have managed to safely and successfully cut down quite a few large ones on my little acreage. Faced with this scenario I think I would have removed some of the large limbs before notching and severing the trunk.
 
I usually put them in tension if they're near the house, but one day I was by myself and didn't hook the winch line high enough on the tree - just jumped off the stump and stood there laughing at me - should have seen me run for the winch and tighten her up - got away with it - lucky, certainly not skill, and I have felled probably 500 trees in my lifetime, with no problems.....
 
(quoted from post at 05:15:27 03/08/13) ... Faced with this scenario I think I would have removed some of the large limbs before notching and severing the trunk.
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That's what the professional tree companies do that I've had out. Cut 'em down starting at the top.
 
I had a hickory right next to my new house that died, probably because of root damage during construction of the house. It had virtually no limbs for the first 20 feet or so and was probably 50' tall. I used a bow and arrow to launch a nylon contractor's line through the very top. Then used that to pull up a stout rope, which in turn pulled up a 1/2" cable. The cable had a loop in the end and was long enough to bring the loop back to the ground to run the other end through.
After the whole thing was snugged up, I hooked it to my JD 70 more than 100' away. With the line that high in the tree, yet stil on strong limbs, it took very little pull to bring it down once it was notched and cut.
Maybe that was overkill, but it cost me virtually nothing, compared the $800 the tree co. wanted, and I was confident there was no way it would get the house OR the tractor/driver.
 
I had an "oh sh!t" moment a couple of years ago. I was clearing a 60 foot red pine from a neighbor's yard. The tree was tall and straight, and I figured I could hinge it to make it swing away from the house. Well, what I didn't calculate was the temperature effect on the wood. On that particular day, the air temp was about -10F, and frozen wood snaps. My hinge snapped with a thickness of a couple of inches. The tree turned just enough that the top of the tree landed about 5' from the picture window. I was lucky!

Colin, MN
 
Looks like that tree has quite a bit more weight on the house side - it wants to fall on the house, no matter what you do, unless you are pulling on it pretty strongly away from the house.
 
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