[Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

[Gary Grossmann]

Dieter wrote:   

 

> And just how often have you managed to make a tree fall where you want 
> it to..... ;)


Every frickin' time...except once...as you may recall from last year when I wrote:

 

I tried to cut down a giant, completely out of control, big leaf maple that is just a couple feet from my shed that doubles as a pump house.  The tree has 12 stalks that range in size from 6" to darn near a foot in diameter and half of them lean to one degree or another over my shed.  I am very good at getting trees to fall where I want them to with my trusty axe and buck saw, but this presented a special challenge which, it turns out, I was not quite up to.  I made one miscalculation and…well, as Groo would say, "Did I Err?"   


I had predicated getting several of the stalks to swing just far enough away from the shed by using one of the other stalks as a pivot point.  It turned out not to be strong enough enough and so all four started leaning towards the shed, with two leaning up against it. The pivot stalk at least kept the others from crashing onto it. I was able to climb up onto the shed, quickly cut off some big branches, push the stalks away as they fell, and got away with only a couple of nicked shingles.  If I had done a couple fewer chops or been a little quicker climbing onto the shed even that wouldn't have happenned.  

 

It retrospect, it was a two man job.  But the nice thing about doing these kind of things by yourself is that when you make a complete fool of yourself, there is no one around to see it.  

 

Gary "The Shed Doesn't Leak" G. 

 

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