Ironcraft CTFF 42

You see back up here behind me here there's a really large dead tree. We're getting our driveway paved here in a couple of weeks and eyeing that tree up, when that thing comes down someday it's going to fall right across a paved driveway, and I'd hate to see that so we're going to come out today with a little bit of help from one of the guys here in our shop that has a bigger saw than I do this. This thing's pretty large at the bottom to knock this guy down, and then we're going to spend a little bit of time moving it with pallet forks. Oftentimes I hear pallet forks referred to kind of as the poor man's grapple, right? You can use forks to move all kinds of different material around, including logs and that kind of stuff from this tree that we're going to fell here today. That's a little bit of a challenge. I used to own a grapple, I sold it here because of COVID inventory problems and haven't been able to replace itself. We're going to see how well we can do today using pallet forks.

So I've actually done quite a bit of work like this here over the years, I've probably dropped eight or 10 trees now, and had to clean up their tops and haul off their trunks to another place that I have over here at the side of my property, where eventually I hope to maybe cut some boards out of some of the better chunks, or at least have a good pile available back there for some good dry firewood once a lot of the more green stuff that I had to take down dries out. You can see here that there's going to be a bunch of challenges with this one in particular, this tree was entirely dead at the top and when it fell the top just crumbled into a million pieces. There's no tractor attachment that's going to make that part easy right, I'm going to be out here picking every one of these little sticks up out of the driveway in order to haul back to a burn pile here eventually.