This slash pine was almost 100 years old when Hurricane Helene toppled it across our back driveway.

Movie: Logging chain (11M)

Here’s a video clip:
https://youtu.be/wqOaL1NYwBk

It cost me a bar for the Husqvarna 460 Rancher 24-inch chainsaw.

If you look closely towards the bottom of the cut, you can see the imprint of the bar and chain.

Which also indicates the size of the tree: about a foot longer than the bar, so close to a yard in diameter.

I count 99 rings

How many rings do you count?

Sky our 8-year-old Caroline Dog watched much of the operation of finishing the cut with my EGO 18-inch electric chainsaw, and dragging the log out with a half-inch logging chain and our John Deere 5203 tractor.

Honeybun followed me to the worksite, but got bored and left.

Gretchen ran away to Pennsylvania.

After I also dragged out two much smaller pine deadfalls, all that’s left is one oak tree. Which is more than 4 feet in diameter. Not today.

-jsq

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