As long as the ground is dry, I can get close enough to hook up a chain and drag out what I can. There's also a pasture with a lot of tree tops at the edge.
I'm not sure what this tree is, I'm thinking an ash, or elm? I haven't dealt with much of either of them. Or something else?
Thats cool. I enjoy scrounging wood that i seldom score. Most oaks around here have the "traditional" oak shape. Chestnut oak being the only one different.
A pole saw may help in some situations, but this stuff has been pushed together into piles. It's difficult to tell what branches go with what trees. I think the only way is to pull out what I want, and clean it up to get down to the meat of the wood. Honestly, so far, it hasn't been as bad as what I expected. Of course I clean it all up once I'm done.
Stihl kicking I have a pretty similar situation to yours. FIL had his woods logged in January. 50 trees in total, almost an equal split between walnut and oak trees. The oak tops seem to have at least twice as much wood in them. Even though I prefer the oak I’m going to take the walnut too, it will burn. I’m stacking it all mixed in together trying to keep a 2 to 1 ratio of oak. The oaks are northern red oak and burr oak. The burr oaks are a contorted twisted up mess of wood. The northern red oaks are a dream. They split if you even threaten them with the ax.
That is similar, and a fortunate situation to be in. I like your idea to mix them together, I haven't done that and find myself in sections of similar wood, and wishing they were blended together. Given an option I won't touch walnut, unless my friend wanted it gone, then I would. Burr oak is an interesting tree, the acorns really stand out.
Nice bit of wood there for sure! We worked a logging job that had about 150 tops on it a few years back. Easiest way I found was to skid the tops out, cut off what I wanted a drag it a bit further, then push the rest into piles and burn it. Took 10 working days with 5-6 men, so a lot of man hrs.
stihl kicking , last pic is walnut-and btw, sycamore is useless as firewood, it is cut for its aid in production of OSB board-it is a water based softwood, I would not bother with it unless it gained access to productive hardwoods
QUOTE="stihl kicking, post: 1354571, member: 8551"]That was a big job. I need to pick up my pace! I really enjoy it, it's almost therapeutic. [/QUOTE] To me it's exactly that. Keeps me somewhat sane. I get really tired of people by Friday.
I see comments all the time about sycamore being just terrible. I took down a big one a couple years ago and my experience differs. I really did not have much difficulty splitting it and I burned a fair amount this winter. A couple big splits mixed in with ash or maple made a nice overnight fire.
