Ok Alan, how would you handle this one?

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White oak--the top of the stump is about 12' up. The split snags are sitting on legs like a big spider.
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Tractor & chain jerk the snag down then cut off the stump. Watch those snags they don't call them widow makers for nothing.
 
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SmokinM":1tissi8p said:
Tractor & chain jerk the snag down then cut off the stump. Watch those snags they don't call them widow makers for nothing.
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Yep. That would be best but wasn't sure he intended to get a tractor to it.

Curious: Maybe its the picture but does not look a lot like our white oaks.
 
greybeard":3jzz34lz said:
White oak--the top of the stump is about 12' up. The split snags are sitting on legs like a big spider.
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My biggest question is why the he?? Are you asking me? This sky's field. Can the Oregon Ducks help? No maybe not, is it a Hereford ...... No. I turn all I can into fire wood, my wife was upset last night because I had the house at 85 F with the wood stove ..... Yea, I opened windows and doors.

So back to your question, I would look at it and if it was safe I would use the tractor bucket to push the "spider" off the stump and the cut the stump. If I didn't think it was safe I would ask you.... No I mean I would ask Jules! :lol:
 
Alan":l9n6ir1h said:
My biggest question is why the he?? Are you asking me? This sky's field. Can the Oregon Ducks help? No maybe not, is it a Hereford ...... No. I turn all I can into fire wood, my wife was upset last night because I had the house at 85 F with the wood stove ..... Yea, I opened windows and doors.

So back to your question, I would look at it and if it was safe I would use the tractor bucket to push the "spider" off the stump and the cut the stump. If I didn't think it was safe I would ask you.... No I mean I would ask Jules! :lol:
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Sorry--I get you and Dave mixed up sometimes--I guess because you are both in the Pac NW. Dave was/is a logger.
Unfortunately, the only thin I have with a bucket is a 480 Case backhoe and it's sitting behind the shop with it's guts all apart--bad transmission.
I have 2 small tractors, a 3600 Ford and a Leyeland 245 neither with a fel. The snag up there is split--2 pieces overlapping each other.
I was just going to set fire to the tall stump, but last time I burned up there in that area, the Sheriff Dept cited me for covering the road with smoke--it goes into a blind 's' curve right there. I'm thinking hook a chain on one of the 'spider' legs nearest the stump and try to pull one of the snags loose and hope the whole thing doesn't flip over too far toward me. Got plenty of chain, but not a lot of room before I run into a canal full of water.
It's going to be fun.
 
Pull it down with a tractor, fill the stump with the limb wood, and then lite it on fire. or you could skip the tractor and go straight to the fire.
 
Can't.
I was just going to set fire to the tall stump, but last time I burned up there in that area, the Sheriff Dept cited me for covering the road with smoke--it goes into a blind 's' curve right there
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If it were me, I'd start with a few fire logs you can buy at the dollar store. I'd toss them in the hollow and let things progress in due time.
 
Ok, I didn't notice it was hollow. That could make a dent in it with the fire logs. Personally, I'd saw and bust it up into firewood and load it out to people that like to buy firewood and then mulch into oblivion everything that was left with my Brown tree cutter.
 

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