A co-worker friend of mine and her husband recently cut down a big old chestnut tree. They don't currently burn wood and offered it to me. I thought it would be impolite to refuse such an offer, so I graciously accepted. I went over today and did some bucking and a little noodling. I have some more left to buck, but that will have to wait for another day. It was cool and cloudy here in central PA this morning, but by early afternoon the sun came out. Temps in the upper 40s. Good weather to work outside. Don't know if the tape measure is readable in the pic, but the stump is 34 inches in diameter. I know old surviving chestnut trees are rare, but I would rather put the wood to good use than have somebody else take it, or worse, have it rot on the ground.
Great score, I got one a few years back, same circumstances. Burns very well but when I was noodling some of the rounds I cried that I didn’t have a bandsaw mill.
Yes, the grain is beautiful! Hey! I see you're from Ellwood City. I grew up in Ambridge and when I was in high school dated a girl from near Ellwood City. North Sewickley Township is where I think she lived. I know she went to Riverside High School. Small world....
It will be really small if I would know her, what was her first name? You old enough to to remember all the Sol’s sporting goods stores?
Her first name was Debbie. I certainly remember the Sol's sporting goods store on Merchant Street in Ambridge!
I'd have gotten that chestnut in a flash!!!! They surely have a beautiful grain too but should make top notch firewood.
