The arborists left them with two large irregularly shaped trunk sections in their front yard, and three smaller pieces along-side their driveway in back.
The trunk sections were only about 6' long, but they were 36" or more in at least one cross-section.
Since they were not even close to being round, they could not be rolled even with my biggest cant hook, so I used the clamp to pull them onto the loading arms. But getting them loaded was only the first of the challenges. Getting a big log down to a manageable size requires a lot of turning while whittling away at the outside. Somewhat counter intuitively, short logs can be harder to turn than longer ones, and the lumpiness of the logs certainly didn't help matters. The chainsaws were put to use several times, trimming away sections of the logs to allow the saw head to complete a cut.
Though it was a lot of work, we did prevail in the end, and made a nice stack of 1" and 2" boards. Unfortunately, milling the two trunk sections took until rather late in the day, so a return trip will be needed to take care of the smaller logs.
