Thanks! Living in NC there are high standards, so we try to live up to them as best as we can. The youngster is growing and learning. He’s a fan of splitters with the log lift, and tractors that can carry firewood. He prefers the loader bucket to the forks, I guess because his little toy loader has a bucket. Hope all is well down in GA, and please tell Miss Carol hello for us!
We got the pecan and oak cooking wood ready for the school BBQ fundraiser on May 5th. A little over 1/2 cord. We made oodles of noodles, mostly oak. Had some big knotty pieces. Used the XS362 on some and finished ising the MS461. Trimming off the sap wood. It had spalted, light weight.
I know they are. It was wood we had to clean up from a church, an older man had been cutting on it, had heart attack and passed. I was gonna just chunk it up for an OWB, but that guy decided he wasn't going to use it anymore. So worked out for this cooking. We had some we split though.
Im not a big fan of them myself. Sometimes i have to take them though. Do you tell your tree guys to minimize the gnarlies or you take the good with the bad Joe?
I don’t mind cutting up big oak crotches. I’ve started doing it more instead of making more trash and irregular pieces trying to split them. The saw cut pieces are heavyweight blocks that feel like they should burn for 2 days. It takes more time, but it’s more opportunity to run the saws.
X2 If i cant easily split it it gets tossed aside then ill go to town in a noodling session. Saw time is more fun than BMB trying to split a gnarly
What is your normal MO when encountered Joe? Buck then put aside and noodle later? Put the whole log aside?
I try to avoid noodling because time is money. I generally save a bunch of them and just dedicate a few miserable hours to the task
After we finished up the pecan and oak order last weekend, I called our BBQ customer. He said he was ready for a 1/3 cord of cherry now. Time to turn on the lights and Git'ter done. We finished up a few oak chunks and bucked up the cherry logs we got in July 2019. It's taking some time to trim it up, but the heart is still really solid Got a few more of the older rounds to do I know we didnt have enough to finish the order, so we dropped 2 cherry trees last night, walking distance from the house. Kinda thick area We had enough time to get 1 skidded out, bucked into 7 1/2' logs and carried to the woodyard. Going thru the tractor shed... Both of those trees were tall. Got 52' of main trunk from 1 tree. Still have the bigger limbs to cut. Gonna get the other one out of the brush when I get off this evening.
Well, only the top limbs on 1 side were in the road amateur cutter Thick brush it fell in. Trimmed up the top and used to 'Bota to pull some of the jungle out with it... The logs from both trees, bucked maybe 5 or 6 to 18" length Started the splitter @8:10, finished up the older rounds first Once we got to the fresh rounds, it went pretty quick, done by 10:00PM Cherry logs we have left. Our light set-up. Had an old 8' wood ladder. Works great.
We have been working on more smoker wood for our BBQ guy. He picked up the cherry and wanted pecan next. We had gotten a big tree a couple months ago, so this worked out great. It seems that pecan is host to a type of fern and moss We didn't want that in his cooker, so we cleaned them up, even Miz Carol helped out on that... Cleaning helped find some hidden treasure...lol... Even then, still found a few with the saw We've got 2 face cords on this rack Then we had some big older rounds that had to be noodled. Made a small mountain... Got a nice stack of dry pieces he can start with. Yesterday morning, we finished cleaning and bucking the longer logs And then split enough to finish the front row. This is what we have left, plus 1 section of main trunk. We will have a bit more than a full cord when done.
We got the rest of the cherry logs bucked, split and stacked. Another load that will be drying until he needs it...
All this wonderful wood makes me want to go smoke something..............Outstanding work and some great scores you got there.....
