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Fatjay

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3 dead pines were leaning pretty hard. Decided it was time for them to come out. With my two helpers and 6 hours of work, everything was cleaned up.

I made one critical error. rope that wasn't strong enough, even with the bucket guarding me. Snapped and came rocketing back at me, over the bucket, over the supports, and smacked my bicep leaving a nice welt and drawing a bit of blood. Through out the entire day that was the only thing that went wrong.

Overall, it was a good day.

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The goal was to clean up before day's end. Slowed down a lot towards the end.

That crab apple over-produces like crazy. Strings of them, looks like strings of grapes there's so many. Mower picks most up most of it, deer get the rest.
 
You are lucky. We are in lowground here at my place and pines have huge,deep taproots. One 18 inch tree had a ten foot taproot;really insane. most
get cut off 4-5 feet down.
 
Looking good Jay and glad you didn't smacked in the head by that flying rope. I'm worried about the same thing happening this fall when I start moving some fallen trees out of my creek bottom. The real solution seems to be a wire cage between you and the load you're tugging on like the logging skidders have.
 
That's exactly why I put the heavy stuff on the other tree side, and just the rope on the tractor side. I wasn't expecting it to break, pulled many tree's with it, but still, I had the bucket up when pulling to prevent just that sort of thing from happening.

I have chain, however my father has it in his motorhome, from when I had to pull him out a few months back. He just happens to be out of town this weekend so I made due with the rope.

Those tree's had been dead for 6-8 years, they were leaning so far, I thought they'd have come down last winter, and didn't want to deal with them if they came down this winter.
 
I ran out of straps and wanted to get far enough away in case the tree fell strait over, it would fall short of me.
 
good job
got er done, survived, all good.
belly up to the bar, get a beer, wear your welt proudly.

If you mess with trees/branches/roots enough, you will bleed sooner or later. Great fun though. love that adrenaline messing with something that will win every argument!
 
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