With The Sick Tree Down

With the sick tree safely felled and cut into log lengths, it was time to get the logs across the road and river to the log landing so they can be loaded onto the truck going to the mill.

Mike cut the tree into five pieces, four of those were for actual logs and the top sixteen foot piece that is not big enough for a log will go into my pile to be eventually made into firewood. The next log from the top was a 32 foot piece, then three 16 foot logs.

The logs were moved one by one with the front loader tractor across the road and over to the log deck. When it came to moving the butt log, the tractor could not lift it much less carry it down the embankment over to the other side of the river so we had to improvise. Mike guessed the weight of the huge butt piece to be near 4000 lbs.

By using a heavy gauge chain, he hooked around the butt piece on one side in about five feet, then across the blade of the bulldozer to about five feet in on the other side of the log. He was able to cinch the heavy chain snugly and use the hydraulics of the dozer to lift the big log. The big log filled up the driveway as Mike got it into place to take it across the county road.

Then it was back to halting traffic and Chinese Fire Drill the tires under the tracks of the bulldozer to move the whole shebang across the road.

While we had traffic stopped on both sides, one of first rigs in line happened to have external flashers, the guy driving turned them on to keep Marilyn and I safe during the process. It wasn’t until we had Mike across the road, had picked up all the tires and was gathering the cones and stop signs when the pickup with the flashers pulled up closer. The driver rolled down his window. Marilyn and I were panting and sweating from the heat of the day and the exertion when the guy hollered, “Want a job?” Marilyn was shaking her head emphatically no and I was nodding just as emphatically yes. Her reasoning was that she already has more of a job that she could ever want! My reasoning was that any paying job would be easier than what I do on a daily basis!

As the rig rolled past us we noticed the sign on the side of his rig, it was that of a local flagging service. Maybe we should have taken that job offer a little more seriously!

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