>>>*Hey, we used up our half, it was 125 MPH when it went by here. Well, down by the Ocean, anyway. We got some 60-80 MPH stuff.

*Good thing our house is down behind a hill.

I am pretty good at falling trees, if branches are going to bust stuff then rent a hylift and cut them off. Then maybe you could top it, then drop the rest?

I know when I fell that big Fir up at the other house my wife's eyes got a bit big. I had less than 20 feet between the house and the other trees to hit. Set her dead center on the button.

I never thought much of putting lines on trees, unless there is some way to draw up the slack they can recoil and go just about any direction. I saw a guy try that with a big Poplar once, hooked his Ford pickup to it by the bumper.

I saw what was going to happen and got the he** outa the way, it started, then twisted. Dragged that Ford backwards a good 50 feet. He had his wife in the truck, in gear and trying to pull.

She mentioned some words not in my vocabulary.... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />..

*Once you get the limbs back, the rest is easy. Just cut your steering notches and lay it down.

We have some very big Red Alder we have to bring down this spring, those are man killers because they split. One last year flipped and landed where I had been standing but I knew it was going to do it so I was somewhere else by then...*LOL**...I will be using my brother's little hot rod saw and shear them on the final cuts. Then they go where we aim them.

My wife hides in the house when I am falling trees, she comes out to see if I survived, then goes back inside... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />...*EB