sycamore removal and sugihara bars

[John Shutler]

removed a medium sized twin stemmed sycamore with a pretty nice inclusion at the base yesterday,

speed lined most of the brash out over the understory of small trees and rhody down to the chipper 40-45m away. took the speedline up the tree with me and tied it off where needed and moved it with me, it was tensioned through 2 pulleys and attached to the truck. kept it simple by taking 7 slings and krabs, and getting the guys to tie them back onto my line

 

knocked the timber down in 6ft lumps and cleared a space to get the loader in to shift it out, took 3 nice lengths to RobD mill and the rest of the timber went for firewood

 

picked up 2 sugihara bars from chainsaw bars, very impressed with the quality, and in particular the stiffness of the 3ft bar on the 660. il definitely be getting some of the light weight sugihara bars for my o2os in the future

[silky fox]

Great pictures john! The 3 ft bar looks very nice....I have been using a Sugi hara from Rob on my 200t.....very happy with it.....just got a 20 inch on a Husky 572xpg....also a great bar:thumbup:

[atree]

Good stuff again John,Must of been quick and easy Zipline/loader combo.

[Rob D]

Good stuff John - glad the bars worked out and I'll stick some pics up on this thread when milling that sycamore.