Taken Down

Last Sunday I took down some saplings out back. They weren't very big around, but one was almost 30' tall and the others 15-20'. The first pic is of the tallest tree. Each section of the fence is 10' so it is close to 30' tall but was only about 5" diameter at the base.

These were the first two I cut, and they were the smaller at between 15' and 20'

These were longer at between 20' and 30' - the tallest one is the one on the right and was not looking healthy with that hole in the trunk. I had no idea it was in that shape as the outside of the trunk did not show any issues

I had to take two loads to the dump's brush pile. The first load contained the two smaller trees and one of the larger trees. The 30 footer went in the second load. I could have stuffed another tree in there, but still would have had to make a second trip,

I also cleared out the garlic mustard and found a patch of poison ivy that has to be taken care of. But it has been raining/drizzling, so will have to wait for better weather.

Comments

[Cop Car]

For all of the similarly sized trees that I cut out of our woods, I envy you the chain saw. I was not well enough coordinated that I would have considered using one, myself, mind you. It is weird having the vacant tube up the trunk of the one tree.

[bogie]

It is a baby chainsaw with only a 14" bar. Best thing is that it is battery operated, so no pulling to try to start it (I had the hardest time trying to start a gas saw years ago). It also needs basically no maintenance - just add a bit of bar oil occasionally and charge the battery. It's a lot quieter too.