2018 debut of big saw

That huge red maple received the cutting treatment today from the big saw, the first use for that incredible tool this year.  It fired right up after more than four months off.

The morning's first cutting was in the Jut on Hardwood Hermitage, with two cuts of 22 inches each off the thickest part of the trunk.  The tree was about 18 inches in diameter there.

More cutting and splitting continued in earnest after hopping the rock wall (which serves as the lot line), to work on the rest of the tree, most of which was in the neighbor's field.

 A large section of the maple remains uncut.  It will be yanked off the rock wall soon.