One big birch

Wait, have we met & I don't remember, you talkin about me? I've heard that a few times.

 

I had a little bit of time before the darkness settled in so I decided to get a jump on the splitting. The Monster Maul and I did alright, although I think the rest I’ll be using my splitter on (I have to get it back from my uncle one town over, who’s been doing a lot of splitting lately) I was concerned about the dark heart wood being punked out but it does seem to be solid enough.

 

All of my swamp dwellers were and about as straight as Box store lumber. Not 1 piece could be used for cribbing

 

That’s exactly what I’m finding with this tree. Not a single straight grained piece so far. Either I’m going to be hammering posts into the ground on the ends or... try my hand at building another Holzhausen with this wood

 

Eric Schamell I leaned some pallets up against 2 trees and stacked between them

 

Ive done that too. Works great!

 

That's a job well done! Lot of good wood and a clean drop!

 

Have you used pallets for ends? 2 or 3 T posts with a pallet slid over them. I never have, but have seen members here do it and seems to work well.

 

Yeah I’ve got a couple piles configured that way. No T-Posts in the ground, just some wooden braces to keep them from falling over. They definitely make stacking a lot easier, especially when dealing with the twisted stuff. Here’s one end of the white pine pile that came from ChipDrop back in February:

 

We did and worked well.

 

Looks like some good wood in that Eric! Well done.

 

That's Great. I really like yellow Birch. There isn't any in Alaska that I know of. But was a lot of it in Maine where I grew up.
Sadly, lots of it went to pull mills. It is very strong and makes very nice beams ECT.
It burns great also.

 

Sounds like some good noodle wood.

 

Oh yeah, and the one casualty on this job. Good old Murphy strikes again! I had dismantled my chain link fence knowing it would’ve gotten squashed by this tree. Wouldn’t you know the one place it landed would be the galvanized fence post?! Darn thing got impaled. I just freed it with my truck. Luckily I have another post I can put in the ground.

 

Your tree friend has good aim, although in this case its bad aim!

 

id save that for a decoration!

 

U know the old saying . If a faller was good they would say, He can drive a stake.
I guess your friend is pretty good!

What model Husky was he using for a climbing saw ?

 

He only brought one saw with him that day, which happened to be his 450 Rancher. I offered him my little Stihl MS170 since what he was limbing was no bigger than 5-6" but he declined.

 

Wait most people don’t put a stake in before they cut a tree. To a) see if they hit it or 2) help figure out why they didn’t.. That’s how I was taught!

 

Good progress on the splitting today. I got the bulk of it done with the splitter, save for a handful of the larger nastier ones. The pallets are staged and ready, and as of last night I stacked what I manually split on Monday night. I have plenty of large square splits for end cribbing. Hopefully I can button all this up tomorrow.