timber!

cut this old black poplar down . to get to the good stuff, the spruce. guess i am heating cow water off grid and reaping the land rewards . watched these trees grow from small, selective logging them. lol.

Well cut, well directed. You are a lumberjack, and you are OK. Jim

Well, any time you can make a tree fall from vertical to parallel with the ground with minimal collateral damage is GOOD
If you want to watch a MASTER at dropping tall trees go to U-Tube and chime in on Buckin Billy Ray Smith's channel.
Loren

Nice choice on saws! CM

Thats funny!!

(quoted from post at 23:07:53 11/12/20) Well cut, well directed. You are a lumberjack, and you are OK. Jim

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id he sleep all night and work all day?

I agree on the choice of saw.
Got to go get mine out today to start cutting up a big pecan that came down in the storm recently.
Richard in NW SC

Yeah....that's what my Stihl used to do....sit on a stump and watch my other saw work.....Never so glad to get rid of it.

this
lumberjack song

or this?
Lumberjack by Jackyl

actually my father was a faller working in the lumber camps for over thirty years. from the 40's 50's,60's, and and 70's. from the start he fell them by hand with a cross cut saw. plus those were trees back then. i have a picture of a 48" tree he cut down. also have one of the blocks of wood he had saved , is probably close to 2 ft wide. actually found it couple days ago when i was looking for some weight to weld on the heater. he had homelite saws. i have them also. one c9 he bought in about 1964 and one of the last 922 models he bought in the 1970's. that was his main falling saw and went trough of a few off these saws. dont forget these saws were running steady day after day all winter long. he always had back up saws plus the smaller XL ones for limbing. he used to laugh at the old mac's and pioneer's said once they get wet that was it they would not start. lots of times crawling through snow up to his waist. his brother used to go out and was limbing for him . then when his parents got old the brother had to stay at the home farm and look after them. he never did marry either. past away about 6 years ago at 85 . i found Johnny Cash's Lumberjack song and played that. it really reminded me of those loggers , plus he liked trains also. dad said at times they would buy a loaf of bread and a roll of garlic sausage and catch the freight train to come home. he said it was very cold in them box cars and at times had to make a little fire to stay warm. he used to have a couple of limbers working for him also. and when ever he came home about once a month he would have his truck loaded with blocks for firewood , as that was our fuel for the wood stove. last bush truck was a 1965 gmc 3/4 ton with the 292 6 cyl. engine. those were a power house. one time he drove it all the way home with not one bit of brakes with a load of wood on it. you had to do what u had to do back then. plus not much traffic at night. i am the oldest of 6 kids and it was my job to look after the chores around here. used to bring homework from school and it never got touched. so i just stopped bringing it. had chores to do. but out of the 6 of us kids i am the only one that graduated high school and got a trade motor mechanic and have never smoked in my life. all the other's smoke. parents never smoked either. so this stubborn ukrainian is not a stranger to many types of work and kind of a jack of all trades.

My name is Jon Jonson,
I come from Visconsin,
I vork in a logging camp 'dere.
Out on the street, people I meet
ask how did I come to be 'dere?
I say: My name is Jon Jonson,
I come from Wisconsin,
I vork in a logging camp 'dere... Repeat for as long as people around you can stand it.

I agree on the choice of saws. The best saws i have ever wrapped my hands around.

(quoted from post at 20:07:53 11/12/20) Well cut, well directed. You are a lumberjack, and you are OK. Jim

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Looks like it fell in the opposite direction of the notch cut to me.

nope, it fell exactly where i wanted it. i even said to the mrs. "watch out that tree is falling right here." and i made sure i had a good
notch so it fall there too. plus have a video of it falling, but dont know if can post it without going on u tube.??

That is an interesting story.......... XL-12 the twelve pound chainsaw.................Homelite's done it again! I have a big limb on a Cherry tree that overhangs my barn that I need to take down. It won't come down though until I get a maple limb out of the way, and the maple limb won't come out until I cut a six inch maple tree. Dominoes, LOL. They all three overhang the house so I will be tying them each to my truck and cutting until I have a one inch hinge and then pull them over.

That’s pretty cool not everybody has the fire wood to supply their wood fired tank heater

Anyone wear a hard hat? I have a lot of ash trees to cut down but they're dropping so much dead stuff I'm not going to start in on them until I have a good hard hat. I see 3" branches stuck straight into the ground after a storm and think, "ouch, that would hurt." not sure even a hard hat would protect from that.

Gerrit