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Downed Tree

25 October 2013

03 December 2013


























This was a live tree, victim of a wind storm while I was in Cape Breton this summer.  I waited till this last week to get down to chunking it up - which was a bit tricky as its' top was tangled in another tree leaving it at about a 30 degree angle.  I measured off, with my saw bar, about nine chunks, then started cutting through from the top of the trunk - when about 2/3rds of the through (and if done correctly, just before the weight of the tree starts to putting tension on the cut and binding my saw blade)  I started cutting through from the bottom.  When I observed it starting to give, I carefully gave two or three quick bursts of power to the chain - leaping back as it fell to the ground, with the still hung portion of the tree again dropping to the ground now leaving the uncut trunk at about a 45 to 50 degree angle. Repeat three times leaving the branching top with good wood still hung and now rather scary to attack - so I leave it for another good wind to complete its' journey to the ground.  The wood pile is the output of the sawing and rough splitting.  Since this was basically a live oak when downed I will leave this pile with only a small plywood covering here in the woods till maybe February or March of '14. 
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