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Originally Posted by starseed
Congrats!
The third post in this thread was meant as a joke. I did not mean to make fun of your occupation.
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No worries. I don't work for a municipality anyway. I'm an elected official so we're those goofs who approve the policies you folks dislike. Maybe that makes me worse.
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Originally Posted by 4X4
I'm impressed for an Oilers fan. Only took you a month to destroy something that took 30 years to grow. Kevin Lowe took nine years.  |
It took about 40 minutes from start to finish and that tree was down.
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
Congrats, but you can't leave it at that, we want details.
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You notch a sideways V on the side where you want it to fall, about a third of the way through the trunk. You then cut a horizontal cut on the other side and give it a push. The tree leans the wrong way so I put my van in the yard and tied a rope to the tree as high as I could get up and tied the other end to the hitch on the van and pulled the rope tight to prevent it from falling the wrong way. It turned out not to be necessary as we just gave her a push and down she went. Unlike those morons in the video in this tread who didn't notice that the tree was taller than the distance to that truck, I gave it lots of distance so as not to hit the van.
Of course, for the last part I put my curious dog in the house for his safety. Half of the trunk is not cut for splitting for firewood. I have some photos on my iPhone and will post a couple later.