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Huge old elm a challenge, even for logger from Vermont Actually, he's now from Gradyville, but he was professional logger in Vermont, and he says the the Shelley farm tree was one of most difficult he ever felled. It took over 3 hours, and took lots of logging equipment, with the coup de grace delivered by a 20 ton hydraulic jack. Click on headline for full story + photo(s) By Sharon Whitehurst My husband and I had an adventure, which I documented and which is ongoing: Removing a dying old elm, a giant of a tree, from the J.M. Shelly farm in southern Green County. It's been interesting, for us, to say the least. We live in Gradyville, KY, on a place we bought from J.M. Shelley. It's the little farm on Old Gradyville Road, formerly owned by Jerry Moss Rogers and Haskell Rogers, a grand old gentleman. My husband Jim made a deal with Mr. Shelley to remove the tree, and the rest is becoming history.Jim estimated the elm tree to be between 75' and 80' high. The diameter was 4' at the point where he cut it down. Jim, who logged professionally many years ago in Vermont, states that this was one of the most difficult trees to fell that he ever encountered. In addition to the chain saw and various wedges, he cut out a space at the back of the stump and inserted a 20 T hydraulic jack, which finally levered the tree down. It took him just under three hours to fell the tree. To date we have hauled home four mounded up loads of wood cut to stove lengths. Jim estimates that if he works up the base log the total yield would be around 6 full cords. But he is hoping to haul the log to a local sawmill and have it sawed into boards. Jim used his 92 Dodge Cummins, affectionately known as "Snort'n Nort'n" - the truck of all work, to haul the wood home to Gradyville. PS: One of the delights here is the ancient pear tree, thought by Haskell to be over a century old. We documented its crop this year from the flowering through to a bumper harvest of pears. Maybe CM readers will be interested in that. Thanks, Sharon Whitehurst. And to answer as the editor, I'd like to see the series. And I know Billy Joe Fudge, who wants the old timey pear tree to be the National Tree of Adair Co., KY, would like to see the series. See Kentucky Color: IncomPEARable by Billy Joe Fudge -EW This story was posted on 2010-12-28 11:16:08
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