Well this one is a decent amount larger than the last one.
I also didn't put a line in it, as I didn't have much room to put my truck or another anchor.
The pine was on the edge of a round corral, was falling distance from another corral, next to a small building, next to 2 other trees, along primary lines, and hung over two parallel fence lines. The ground was very soft from recent rains...
Only other problems were the decent amount of weight hanging over my head and opposite the direction I wanted to fell it, as well as the fences directly behind the barrel, allowing no escape path. The other two routes to the left and the right had significant sized leaders overhead.
I had a very tight area to drop it, namely, the whole thing had to fit in the round corral. I tried something a little different with the cut, to give it direction and it seemed to work. There was a fair amount of weight leaning towards the white building as well, so I was trying to angle it away from there. It cleared the fence by inches on one side, and a couple feet on the other. All in all not a bad drop. Bucked it all up, even went through and cut up all the brush so it'd be dumpster sized.
This one came down on Phoenix Ranch, off of Live Oak Springs Canyon Rd, in the town of Canyon Country. Funny enough, got to talking with the ranch owner, for a good half hour after I finished the job. Turns out that his father in law was the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore), and his brother is CEO of the huge corp. called "Herbal-life" Claimed he'd have lots of return work for me. We ended up splitting the wood; half and half. I got all the big stuff.
Oh, any of you who remember me mentioning that I was looking at a certain pine in an area that I was working, but it had lines running next to it, which sparked Ekka's thread on Electrocution and such... well this is that same tree. Line clearance guys came through a couple weeks back and hacked it back so it wasn't rubbing. After that I didn't have any vices with it.
Other than the fact that it was heavy, multi-leadered, and problematic. Got it down okay though! woohoo! This one felt good.
Tried to give a kinda clockwise view of the area:
The lack of an escape path here made it hairy. It started to go over, so I breaked the saw, dropped it and dove through the fence. It started to go......then stopped. So I went back through gingerly and kept it goin till it started to go!!! Jumped back through the fence! It was going....!....!.... and went crashing down. Score!
The trusty 361 is pulling its weight on this job.
