Working Blown Down Trees

[@DeadWoodLogging6996]

Those blowdown trees are a league of their own - all kinds of weird pressure in them...Never too careful working with them. Nice to see a fellow - logger doing the same stuff i do. Thank You for sharing - i found some interesting stuff on your channel - new subscriber here ! Stay safe !

[@appoutfeed]

Yup, working blowdowns can get pretty technical and dicey, yet storm clean-up is arguably when those with the least experience on a saw fire them up. I made the video in hopes of helping those folks out in some small way. Thanks for the sub!

[@PATCsawyer]

+1 on leaving the rootball for last, de-weighting all crown limbs not in contact with the ground, and working no higher than shoulder level. Yes, don't cut long limbs completely free, but do V-notch their undersides and make the back cut to the apex so the limb comes to rest slowly on the ground while still attached to the hinge as it will be less likely to split/slab. Now you can concentrate on thse load bearing limbs.

[@appoutfeed]

Very well put. And I think you are right about notching the limbs. Dealing with the load-bearing limbs is where things can get really interesting. Super easy to get the bar pinched, have a limb under pressure let go and whack you, or have the tree shift in a way you didn't anticipate.

[@rudytaylor1165]

I cut firewood for about 50 years, and i could have worked that log up,and split it while you were talking

[@theoldfellaDigwell]

Helene came back across to UK gave us some firewood but nothing on the scale of youselves

[@appoutfeed]

Hi there! Welcome! To be quite honest, I thought Helene had petered out in Tennessee, that said, it figures that she went on to be a problem somewhere else. I'm not sure that corporate media gave complete coverage to the damage Helene did in North Carolina. It seems that the best information has been on Facebook. NC is still reeling from the damage and freezing temperatures are set to take hold tonight, probably along with some snow in the hardest hit areas.

[@theoldfellaDigwell]

@@appoutfeed Yes we got the guiest,but then we always watching weather its part of living offgrid, need to plan

[@rudytaylor1165]

More work and less talking please