After having cleared the trees from the road and cutting up the trees that fell on the cars I was tasked with cutting up a couple of fallen trees that by one of our neighbors properties. One tree was already on the ground and the other was sitting in a smaller tree, somewhat off the ground. For this task I used the battery electric chainsaw we have and our neighbor's Stihl saw.
The first thing I did was use the battery saw to cut the branches from the trunk. These branches were around 2" in diameter at the trunk, which was nothing for the battery saw to handle. Even after cutting each branch free from the trunk I further cut the branches into smaller sections in order to be able to load them into the truck as well as be able to handle them when it comes time to run the branches into the chipper shredder. The battery saw chopped all of the branches free from the trunk. With that done I was able to start cutting up the trunk from the top as it was only a few inches diameter near what would've been the top of the tree. I chopped through this pretty easily. I kept working my way down the trunk until I got to where the trunk was around 8" diameter. I then moved over to the other tree. I cut up the branches from the 2nd tree, doing the same thing where I cut the branches into smaller sections. I managed to remove the branches from the trunk and started cutting into the narrow top of the trunk, taking a few feet from the tree before the batteries finally went dead. On the next day I continued on by using the Stihl to cut the first tree trunk all the way to the root ball. I moved on to the 2nd tree and cut more of the trunk up to where it rested in the still standing tree. With that I concluded the 2nd day. On the third day we came back, this time to load up the cut up branches into the truck along with sections of the cut up first tree. I cut the tree up into small enough sections so all I have to do is split the sections in the log splitter and stack, no further cutting. After getting a large amount of branches loaded into the truck with trunk sections we moved on to the rest of the 2nd tree, starting with me having to cut the tree to get it free of the standing tree. Once that tree was on the ground I cut the trunk into small sections, like the first tree, so they can be split and stacked. Once I got the 2nd tree chopped up into sections I moved on to the standing tree. This tree was a tree that really didn't do much and had brittle branches, more than likely it was already dead. Our neighbor wanted to get rid of that tree too. Since this was a small tree, it didn't take much to drop it. Each of the sections were around 8" in diameter and were no match for the Stihl. After dropping the trunks I further cut up the large awkward stump as low as I could. I cut up the tree into smaller sections, not quite the foot long sections like the first two trees, but short enough that we can get the sections into the truck without struggling. I can use one of the electric saws later on to cut the these sections into shorter pieces. It was getting late and I really didn't have time to just keep cutting the trunk into smaller sections. In the next installment we will be loading up the remaining trunk pieces and branches and bringing everything back to the house and staging everything in the areas where I've been stacking the rest of the cut up tree shit. All that's left now is cutting up our next door (or next lot) neighbor's trees. He'll probably manage to get some cut up beforehand but I'm gonna also cut more so I can get those trunk sections back to the house and staged with the rest of the wood. Only then will I begin the next phase which will be grinding up the branches.
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