Anyone got tips on how to lift a tree off the ground for easier chainsawing? I'm sort of talking about trees that are in a parallel stack and impossible to roll over. I was considering cutting a notch in the end and using a high lift jack to lift up one end, but I've never tried this before (till tomorrow anyway).
Pry one end with a long bar or a 2 x 4, put a block under and start cutting. Repeat as needed. Sometimes you can get under the center easier and slip in a block of some sort. Just watch the fingers when you do. Push it in from the end, never reach under.
Just think about lifting it in the middle, a foot off the ground. Think of sawing off a couple of feet on each end alternately. Its a logger's dream!
I did a lot of chainsaw work after Katrina. In this picture we got TWO saws bound up and needed a 3rd to free them!
Saw on the left was fist to bind up. Initially it looked like this tree was under pressure from a tree and branches to the left and the root ball on the right so I started from the top. I was wrong and before I could pull the saw it bound. Second saw, the one on the right, came in from the bottom. That cut should have been proceeded by a relief cut on the top first, but wasn't. You can see the result. We brought in a third saw and cut just to the right of the second saw to free the first two saws.
To do what you described we used a bobcat with pallet forks! See
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pictures PICT0382.JPG through PICT0386.JPG for how we used a bobcat to get a tree off a roof!
Something cheap, that can be handled by one person, and would fit in the back of an SUV would be ideal! Invent something.
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I did a lot of chainsaw work after Katrina. In this picture we got TWO saws bound up and needed a 3rd to free them!
Saw on the left was fist to bind up. Initially it looked like this tree was under pressure from a tree and branches to the left and the root ball on the right so I started from the top. I was wrong and before I could pull the saw it bound. Second saw, the one on the right, came in from the bottom. That cut should have been proceeded by a relief cut on the top first, but wasn't. You can see the result. We brought in a third saw and cut just to the right of the second saw to free the first two saws.
To do what you described we used a bobcat with pallet forks! See
formatting link
pictures PICT0382.JPG through PICT0386.JPG for how we used a bobcat to get a tree off a roof!
Something cheap, that can be handled by one person, and would fit in the back of an SUV would be ideal! Invent something.
(Sorry of this is a dupe post, I'm having newsserver troubles)
i use a spud bar to roll of lift log and slip a small log under trunk.put a small log beside trunk and use bar as a lever.baileys.com has log rollers with a hook on em to roll logs onto a smaller log /. lucas
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