Tag Archives: chainsaw

Back driveway deadfall 2025-03-21

Always carry a chainsaw.

Because stuff still falls down. Continue reading →

Boat rack, cherry logs, child labor 2024-11-27

After I chainsawed a cherry tree off the corncrib and dropped some cherry logs on the boat rack, I screwed it back together almost straight.

Rebuilt boat rack almost straight

We used child labor to roll out the resulting cherry logs. Continue reading →

Chainsawing cherry tree off corn crib roof 2024-11-17

Yet another clearing task after Hurricane Helene: get that cherry tree off the corn crib roof.

Sawing from the top –Gretchen Quarterman

It was a nice Prunus serotina, but it would not survive like that, and we could not leave it to cause more damage during the next big storm. Continue reading →

Finding Gretchen’s Sycamore Tree after Hurricane Helene

We raised this tree from knee-high, so we wanted to see how it was doing after Hurricane Helene.

Finding Gretchen’s Sycamore Tree after Hurricane Helene with chainsaw and dogs 2024-10-12

After I chainsawed through many yards of fallen trees, bushes, and vines, we found it battered but still standing.

Blondie and Honeybun were almost as happy as Gretchen to see it.

Here is a video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLk2OxkA4UvwnPsm5_5P9lTV26Mqd-SWR&si=1HpY-Z3kg72Izfyx

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The tree with the afternoon sun, 16:59:15

Tree beside the sun, 16:59:27

jsq starts sawing a path, 17:00:50

Step by step, 17:00:52

Saw to the left, 17:03:25

Saw across ahead, 17:18:48

Broken branch above, 17:19:14

Saw to the right, 17:20:38

Almost there, 17:33:44

Saw higher vines, 17:33:47

Saw the last vines, 17:38:07

Movie: Gretchen walking the path to her tree

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Movie: Gretchen comes to her tree, 17:40:09

Movie: Gretchen looking up at her tree, 17:40:45

It was knee high when we transplanted it

Movie: Survived better than almost anything else nearby, 17:41:01

Movie: Gretchen, Blondie, and Honeybun at her tree, 17:41:20

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Movie: Big pine on path to the pond, 17:43:40

Oak across pond path, 17:46:55

Some broken trees at pond edge, 17:48:56

DFSP

Deadfall on south path, 17:55:46

Closeup deadfall on south path, 17:55:49

-jsq

Trees, lightning, hurricane, chainsaw 2022-11-10

Some weeks ago, lightning struck a bunch of trees and killed them.

During Hurricane Nicole, two of them fell across the front driveway.

A little chainsaw work cleared the driveway.

Lightning, Hurricane, Chainsaw

Before

These two pictures are from November 5, 2022. Notice how the dead trees are in a line. Continue reading →