Guest Post by VietVet
To celebrate this Independence Day
I cut up a tree
It came down in the storms last week, snapping off at the ground apparently rotted.
Yellow poplar (aka tulip tree) about sixty feet of trunk and another 25 feet of limbs.
I brought out the tractor with chipper attached, log jack, chain saw, limb saw and went to work.
I limbed it first, then limbed the limbs. Fired up the saw and ate through two chains getting it cut into rounds. The first chain got so hot and stretched I ran out of bar on the saw, forcing me to change the chain.
Then I fed the limbs into the chipper and made a yard of mulch for the garden.
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