Because of the fire danger the Forest Service is restricting the use of gas-powered saws to before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. So Andy has been going up early because some of the trees were too big for the little electric saw he has been using.
Gas (top) and electric (bottom) saws
Yesterday Beate and Tim helped him. Tim used the big saw to cut most of the way through the big trees, Andy finished the cuts with the electric saw, and Beate hauled and rolled the pieces away from the 100-foot defensible space. They were a tremendous help!
Here are some of the pictures Beate took.
There are a lot more pictures on Flickr.
Thanks, Beate and Tim!
June 20, 2020
Cutting trees is hard work!
Yes!
Beate and Tim are always the BEST!
and Andy is certainly no slouch either. LOL
that is actually pretty dangerous work.
glad they’re all doing it together.
Amen to that!
I’m happy Andy has great help too.
That’s super hard work.
I cut big branches off a fallen tree and it about did me in!
xo
Yes, I’m happy Beate and Tim helped too!
PS … that was a couple of years that I did that!
Lol!
No more cutting up trees for me!
😀
I don’t saw trees anymore either!
A job well done. The right tools and equipment make things so much easier.
Yes, but I tried a small chain saw once years ago and decided I would stick to my little hand saw. Much safer for klutzes like me!
Thank goodness for friends for Andy…
Yes, they helped a lot.
It does look like a lot of hard work those are some really big trees. I’m trying to decide why it matters if the saw is used before 10 and after 6. Kennesaw start a fire any time of the day?
It’s hotter and drier during the day, so that increases the fire risk. But 10 to 6 sounds arbitrary to me.
I have cut down quite a few trees but most were old apple trees. They kept an Echo chainsaw, with just a 16 inch bar…it would start winter or summer with two pulls…
But I could not handle that big saw!
I couldn’t either! I wasn’t even comfortable using the little one years ago. I stuck to my hand saw.
That looks like a lot of hard work
Yes. 🙂