tipping trees!

[Donn Hewes]

Well we had a few good days of felling ash, but this one wanted to go the wrong way. After we had put every wedge we had into it, we went and had tea! When we came back we brought a 30 ton bottle jack and tipped it over. This was an ugly tree with big frost cracks ( see how it split). we really just wanted it down while preserving the most young maples. Here are a couple of pictures.

[Carl Russell]

Awesome Donn. It may have had frost cracks, but it also quite possibly split because the fork closed when it hit the ground. Ash is quite prone to that. That is a big jack! Thanks for the pix, Carl

[Donn Hewes]

Yes, I think the forks played a big part in the split trunk. We had just dropped another big one with a deep frost crack, but not the same twin stems. It stayed together. I think both halves will still make boards on the mill. Now it is all buried under the snow again!

[Tim Harrigan]

Nice, Donn, thanks for posting the pictures. You have some nice firewood anyway. I had a nice day today ground skidding ash that I dropped over the last few weeks when the snow was so deep. Most of the snow is gone but the ground is still frozen. Will and Abe had a lot of spring in their step today, seemed happy to be out there, 30 degrees with sunshine. None of us had much bounce last week in the snow. You sure have some nice ash trees.

[lancek]

You can get some good rift and quartered material out of those logs dont saw it all up for fire wood !

[Donn Hewes]

I planned on putting them in the mill. There still big logs!

[Ed Thayer]

Great pics. Were those ash wedges you were using Don?

[near horse]

Donn – that’s not the jack from your floor press, is it? Truly a multi-functional tool.:D

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