Another day but something very new

[Delphinus]

Okay just one more, the saw in the picture is over a metre long, so we are talking about a pretty big tree. The pic is cropped to the width of the base of the tree.

Thats impressive stuff.. Imagine how long that tree has been there and what its seen...
Where is that?

[Disco Dan]

Thats like a life time supply of toilet paper right there.

[deanohit]

better to have long line set in the tree and pull it (but have the rope on a ropebrake so if the tree starts going wrong it doesnt catapault the digger)

One of our guys was a bloody monkey, so he was always chosen to go up the tree with the rope. We then took the rope through a block 90deg to the digger. Never had a close one doing it like this as the tree always fell a different angle than towards the digger.Touch wood!

Best mistake I ever saw was when I came over the ridge just in time to see the boss drop a tree dead on the quad and his new chainsaw. Quad was fine, chainsaw was not.

[Timber020]

Thats impressive stuff.. Imagine how long that tree has been there and what its seen...
Where is that?

The tree is near battle hill. We have taken down a few trees around there, and they are holders of interesting bits of history. We were taking down some pines when we kept hitting bullets buried deep in the trees. Some of them were fat little suckers, 45's.

Turns out that the Marines during the war, trained in the area before getting shipped off to get there ranks thinned at Iwo Jima, and Okinawa so they used to shoot at trees for target practice. They were very unpopular with farmers as they used to cut fenceposts down with gun fire. So the 3006, .30 and 45 rounds were from these brave young guys from so far away so long ago.

[skidMark]

Thats like a life time supply of toilet paper right there.

your a fukn worry lol