Thread: show us your chainsaws

Originally Posted by XR500

My firewood log pile has been threatened by a gum with an ever increasing lean on it. Trouble being its 2m on the wrong side of a 9 wire fence, and I have resigned myself to having to cut the fence, drop said tree then restrain the fence. Groan! I had even toyed with t he idea of building up a massive pile of firewood logs for the tree to drop on

Then visited the bright ideas department and said "why don't you repurpose those dirt bike jumps made from earthmoving tyres and have the tree hit those instead of the fence?"

Seem like a far less work intensive option, so relocated the tyres with the tractor, and for good measure piled a decent sized firewood log on top. 's dog wandered by to add perspective.

The tree has been leaning badly for the last decade, so it had built up quite a deal of tension in it. so when it went (bore and release) it went off like a gunshot.

End result was just what the doctor ordered. Tree down out of the way and fence intact

That's actually a bloody neat idea - not that I have a surplus of earthmoving tyres loafing. Last one I dropped was a half rotten shelter belt tree, knew it was dodgy and took steps including tying it off so it could only fall one way and moving well out of the way real quick when it started moving etc etc. It did everything it was supposed to, apart from the dodgy rotten secondary trunk that I couldn't cut off it and which decided not to fall over with the rest of the tree it was attached to. Once the main started moving the secondary tried to stay upright hanging onto mid air as the rest of the trunk below and beside it moved away. The secondary eventually caught up with gravity and dropped, then pivoted and leaned against the mesh and wire fence right next to it popping the staples, once the staples popped it somehow hopped over the fence and lay down beside it without busting anything. I should have video'd it, it looked like a cartoon tree falling over and leaving the branches behind. Still don't know how it did what it did.