2 large 14-18 inch trees fell across the paths. It is a 20-30 minute hike back to them through 3 mudholes. My 14 inch electric chainsaw only lasts for 4 minutes when cutting logs this size. I don't trust myself to use my 16 inch gas chainsaw. My Dad quite a few years ago when cutting down a butternut tree told me that chainsawing would be good therapy for my arm/hand. I can't see hospital lawyers approving any type of release form for survivors to participate in such therapy.
This tree needed to be cut in multiple pieces and took two weeks to accomplish.
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| The very right limbs of this were cut by hand |
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| The 5 foot middle section is rolled off the trail in the middle of the picture almost out of sight |
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| The before picture |
The next tree was even larger, I sometimes walked back here three times a day since I only managed 1 inch in depth for each battery charge. I had manged to get maybe halfway through when I walked out there one morning and heard a chainsaw running. It seems a neighbor uses that trail to dump grass clippings and leaves and needed to get thru. The six pieces he cut it into would have taken me all summer. Today I got thru a 7 inch tree in three cuttings, it had been dead quite a long time.
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| The before |
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| The aftermath |
Nice work! When I was in OT, one of the patients had cut himself with a falling chainsaw. He had a huge zig-zag scar along his forearm. Lucky for him he had 2 working arms when it happened.
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