Back in the cedars today

[Kevin]

Great day to be in the woods dropping cedar trees.
I only had one that favoured the lay and the memory stick crapped out before I got it on the ground.
Anyway, this one took two wedges but it came down.

[Magicman]

Lot bigger cedars than we have.

[Kevin]

You can see it set back just before I started setting the wedges.

[fishpharmer]

MM your right about our Lil Ole ERC. 

Kevin what kinda Cedar is that?  Nice video.  I watched it again after your mentioned the tree setting back, saw it once I knew what tree to look at

[WDH]

Reminds me of a big dead ash tree that I felled poorly last Saturday.  I botched the job royally, so poorly in fact that I felt bad about it the rest of the day and was too embarrassed to tell anyone about it.

I thought about you and the other guys on the Forum that I have learned so much from and about how poorly I executed that job.  Heck, now I am confessing  .

[Don K]

Heck Danny. We all have a few that didn't fall where we wanted. That is what makes the ones that do fall right bring a smile to your face.

Don

[thecfarm]

I'm still on dial up.When I cut cedar,they hate to come down.Most times have to winch them down to the ground.the ones I cut are no bigger than  18 inches.Most of them are growing in a thick area and have no chance to get going to fall to the ground.The cedars I cut are too light to have any force to bring them down,the other tree limbs hold them up.

[Magicman]

I cut a big old Sweetgum last year that fell 180^o from where I wanted it.  A breeze picked up, and I had not set my wedges.  Good thing that I always have 2 chainsaws.

Note to myself...always set those wedges as soon as the saw allows....before it sets back.....

[Kevin]

These are white cedar.
The tops are all touching one another and will stand on the stump after they're cut.
I used my logrite to bring one down yesterday, I was happy to have it.
This one in the picture hit the lay but was too long for the clearing and the top became hung between two other cedars about twenty feet up.


Half the work is picking up the branches and stacking them off on the side of the clearing.
The deer will be in there feasting on them.

[Kevin]

This is the one that died on me, the memory ran out on my camera card and the video quits before the tree hits the dirt snow.
You can see the brush pile off to the right.
This one had a large root right under the hinge so that's what the boring was all about.
I'm trying to get a card now with more memory so this doesn't happen again.

[timberjack240]

dont feel bad if they dont go where you want them to .. i had one across the road few months back .. cpl weeks befroe that put a 35 in white oak in a corn field and   one time my uncle put a tree into a fancy strawbeery patch owned by a tree huggin lawyer  and to top the cake my pap was cuttin trees along a very untravled road mebe  2 cars a day. needed the skidder.. no skidder around so he decided to saw the hinge off let it flop back acroos the road.. he looked no cars .. sawed it off as the 30 in red oak started to tip he looked and here come the first car all day. perfect timing , sorta. the tree brought the car to an instant stop basiclly it fell rite over top and ungulfed the car and instantly flattened the tires. pregnant lady and 3 kids. no one was hurt luckily she wlked around for 3 hrs couldnt understand what happened or where that tree came from .. i sure wouldt wanna do that today.. needless to say my pap bought a new car and never got to drive it

[Chuck White]

We don't have very many cedars around here that would require a wedge to fell them where we want them to go!

[Kevin]

WDH;
Everyone misses now and then.
The important thing is understanding what went wrong in order to prevent it from happening again.
Where people get into trouble is not understanding why it went wrong, they just assume it amounts to bad luck or good luck.

[Engineer]

I have never had a tree fall where I didn't want it to.

I have, however, changed my mind about the location as the tree was falling....

 

[submarinesailor]

I have never had a tree fall where I didn't want it to.

I have, however, changed my mind about the location as the tree was falling....

Hate to admit it......But,  BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.

Bruce

[Magicman]

I also need to adopt that ...."excuse"....

I had a big old SYP to spin on me and wedge the saw bar.  It then hung in another tree and really looked dangereous.  I  didn't have another saw, so I took the bar loose and called it a day.  I went back a few days later, to find the tree on the ground and the bar laying neatly across the stump.

When sawing now, I always have two bars/chains and generally two saws.

[SwampDonkey]

We have a few large stands of white cedar in my area to. They got hit hard by loggers over the past 20 years telling landowners they should be cut because they aren't worth much. Well I never did see any of those guys ever try to plant anything to replace them cedar. Cedar is where it grows because nothing else can do as well there. Most of our local cedar stands are composed of 80 % or more white cedar when mature. Also the bed rock is calcareous on those cedar sites. Most everything else dies out. I have counted rings over 200 years of growth in those stands. Most other areas around the province has the cedar mixed in the forest and any of the wetlands in those regions are more bogs than anything. Our cedar stands aren't bogs and the biggest real bog around me might be an acre or two, not counting beaver flooding, which ain't bogs. It's nice walking in an old cedar stand in the winter, like parkland. In the summer it can get a little muddy.

Doing a fine job there Kevin.

[beenthere]

I have never had a tree fall where I didn't want it to.

I have, however, changed my mind about the location as the tree was falling....
 

       

[LOGDOG]

Kevin,

   Those are really nice cedars. What do cedar bolts and logs sell for up your way? When I lived in WI I had a heck of a time finding good white cedar that didn't have center rot. The cedar from MN and MI seemed to be larger and better quality.

LOGDOG

[Kevin]

I can't say, I'm not familiar with the market.
These logs are for myself and are probably costing way more than what I could buy them for less the fun I'm having.
No rot in anything I've cut so far.
I'll be back there tomorrow skidding them out, pictures to follow.