I live in a wooded neighborhood where most lots are 1-2 acres. There has been an empty lot behind me for years now. I guess the owner finally decided to stop paying taxes on it and put it up for sale. A good friend of mine put in a bid and just made settlement on it 2 weeks ago. There used to be a house on the lot but it got torn down and the lot sat like that for years. There is obviously the opening for the old driveway and house but other than that it’s a wooded lot. There are 10 oaks we marked for removal (5 dead) and some white pine we marked for immediate removal. Once she gets the plans for exactly where the house and septic will go, we will do phase two of the tree removal which will be just about if not all oaks. I started work Monday after work, put some time in last night and about an hour and a half this afternoon before the rain came. I have 8 trees down so and 7 of them cut up. All were easy drops except for one 20” diameter dead for a few years red oak. I had a hard time reading the lean but think I knew where it could go with some wedges. Being a dead tree I decided against wedging and put a rope on it and pulled it with the truck with no issues. All of the good solid wood will go to my 10 year olds roadside firewood stand, some questionable oak will be set aside for my fireplace and the dead dry tops that are far gone and messy are going straight into my wood boiler to finish off this season. Probably figuring at least 20 more good size oaks out of this and 3 decent size white pine. I’m not used to working like this so close to home but I sure could get used to it.
Wow, that's nice, great wood and so convenient, and a friendly neighbor. Sounds like your friend won't be burning any wood in her new house?
Nope. Gas fireplace for her. She loves a real fire but she also likes to flip a switch. Her ski house still has a wood fireplace
Always great when its close to home. Nice you can process the entire tree to your specs and no crud/dirt to contend with. How will you get the wood to your moms or will it stay at your place?
I know some of you have to work hard to get your wood out of the woods but that’s almost never the case for me…except for today. I have all of the dead and not so healthy looking trees down and cut up so today I decided to haul some out from deeper on the lot to where I can get the truck. Carrying this stuff even 50-75 steps isn’t much fun. Thankfully the biggest was only around 16”-18” in diameter.
Nice rounds. Some of those look down right heavy! My tolerance for carrying long distance is low. I have been spoiled though. There's just so much to easy pick around me.
Tell me about it! Ill have you come hoarding with me for a day. Ill do the cutting and you can be the carrier!
Id love to come down and make firewood with you for a day and see "the field of hoarders dreams"...just not in the Summer. The only way i take that many steps is for BL or some other "exotic" wood.
A good realtor would’ve got you Brad and a set of leg irons. Paid off in two summers. Except for the grocery bill
