What’s best way to turn this into fire wood? Or if that is not possible, using my crummy ryobi cordless reciprocating saw and circular saw, what is best way to remove? I can rent chainsaw if necessary. Specialists can’t get here until mid January.
Long Island, NY
by BuzzAldrinsHaircut
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Must have had some bad root rot. Thankfully the kids weren’t up high. Any friends, neighbors, or family with a chainsaw?
How exactly did those small children knock down that large tree?
It would not be hard to chop that up with a sharp handsaw. Look for bow saw.
I should clarify that was a little facetious and tongue in cheek. That didn’t come thru in Reddit post.
My assumption is the weight of the snow and high winds combined to knock it down. They are playing on it after it was down. Other trees came down as well in the neighborhood and many high limbs around town also were coming down.
Advice still needed. Sorry for confusing post!
For this size tree a 30cc saw would suffice, if you have time you could also just hand saw it apart.
Looks like the roots rotted and it just gave out so wouldn’t blame the kids too much unless tbey were severing roots before it fell. Recip saws work okay for a few cuts but not really meant for this much cutting, you will fly tbrough blades. Use ppe if u use a chainsaw. For a single small job any saw will do as long as its sharp and safe.
i would do that with a handsaw and just take my time.
Bow saw will get old, but if you have the time and inclination, it will do the trick. Chainsaw will take 1/2 hour.
I use a sawzall with a long blade. That would take care of most of it. Then I would ask my neighbor if he wanted the main trunk.
Sawzall would work…chain saw would work better. Don’t cut your kids up.
I would definitely use a chainsaw
A chainsaw.
My father would have made me do it while he supervised 😬
Your sawzall should work and be reasonably quick. Look for a pack of long pruning blades at Home Depot. They go up to about 9 inches.
use the reciprocating saw with a pruning blade
Snow knocked down tree I think. Kids miraculously unharmed
You can buy a chain saw for pretty cheap, then your set for any future incidents. If not, renting is not a bad thing as well. Just be careful, and get chaps if you rent as well
Rent the chainsaw. You could clean it up by taking the smaller branches off with a recip saw but the larger limbs and trunk will be a serious chore. Might as well just grab the real saw and do the whole thing in one pass.
A small electric chainsaw could probably handle that.
What advice do you need. Start cutting!