[Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

[John T]

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From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of
Gary Grossmann
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:08 PM
To: groop at groo.com
Subject: Re: [Groop] OT: Dieter's Question

 


 
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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