Ninety Footers...

When the line crews came through last summer and dropped the trees, they commented on the bigger ones, the "ninety footers" as they called them. I didn't think too much about it at the time, but now I realize how much work it takes to buck up, haul in and split the wood from a tree that big.

The chain saw has just an 18" blade and the tree's over two feet thick, so it takes some manipulation with the saw to get it bucked up.

The bucket on the tractor is six feet wide, but only two feet high, so it's hard to get in a decent load of logs.

Finally it's almost all stacked up; another load or two and we'll get'er done!