Whilst I was at the tree dump today a guy came out with a load of maple brush. Told him if he had anything bigger he could dump it on my lawn. About 15 minutes later her pulled up to the house with about 20 6 foot limbs 6-12 inches in diameter. I mixed them in before thinking of pictures, though. Already split now and waiting to be stacked.
nothing wrong with that maple, Jack. I started piecing down a pretty nice sized honey locust for a guy this evening, got some of the bigger limbs down (had to climb and piece them down), tomorrow I'll rig the leaner that's leaning towards the house and use another large trunk of the locust as an anchor point and fall that limb against it's lean.....I'll use a cable and pull it backwards, and lower it to the ground with my truck...... A tricky move to master but once you do, it sure makes piecing down bigger trees/limbs easier......just takes a lot of patience and good judgement to do it right.......you really have to be able to 'read' the tree..... I'll take pics (and maybe a video if my son comes to help) of the backleaner......
I wish we had honey locust out here the way you folks talk about it. Sure sounds like some mean burning wood!
Trooper, it is great firewood! not quite as good as black locust, but it's up there close to it! Unfortunately, the homeowner wants the wood...he already promised it to his buddy. But that's OK, I've got around 8-9 cord of black/honey locust in the stacks....i'll be burning some of that this winter!! And I have 4 huge honey locusts to cut on a local farm, so that will be around 6-8 more cord!
Can't pass up some good locust. Just wish we had a great number of sassafras in the areas, for non burning reasons.
Non burning? post? That stuff sure doesn't like to rot I know that, but I burn and it is a decent shoulder wood.
You would need the root for that no? Also I heard that consuming sas has been linked to cancer, you might want to look into that.
yes, sassafras contains safrole, which is a known carcinogen...... I no longer will drink the tea. But, in all reality, I bet most foods sold are somewhat carcinogenic. All the hormones and chemicals (not to mention the genetically modified food they sell us) are causing a whole plethora of health problems, so its "six in one hand, half dozen in the other" nowadays......
I have no complaints about maple, especially the delivered for free kind. Easy to light, burns nice. Quick to dry. Was it a homeowner or a pro that you can get a steady supply from?
Totally agree with you here, a better example would be tabaco products, they for sure will kill you but will you die before they get the chance? Enough on this.... Hoard on!
