95ºF here today. Too hot for me to be doing that. I have a white oak near the street on the property line that died a few years ago I keep putting off . It fell in three pieces sometime during the night. It doesn't look too solid from about 6 feet away. Nice to get them when they are green sometimes. They usually cut easier/faster.
My shirt was drenched. The humidity has been awful the past couple days. It made the job miserable for sure
Yes, I’ll tension it as much as I think I can without harming the the rope, or as much as I have room to tension. It was the latter today. 200’ rope and I couldn’t get my truck as far away as I’d prefer. Sometimes dead limbs can fly.
Yep, nice work. That's where my hydraulic winch is really great. Tension, cut,pull tree over from a safe distance. Really handy when working alone.
Little sweat equity! Too darn hot again for me. Love the smell of fresh split oak. Then the stacks let off the smell, especially after a real hot day then a fresh rain.
Finally got back to this list of things to do. White oak with a limb over the roof and through the top of another. I had a truck tensioned rope in it and I could still feel the tree sit back on my bar, so I cut a little more and went back to the truck to pull it over. The limb that was in the top of another white oak broke the top out and it crashed on a stack. The limb over the roof was rubbing hard on the other tree and had decay. 50, 70, 9
Nice work Not to put a damper on your day, but here the trees will fill in any where there is sunlight. road to my house tree covered in 18 years numerous trees on road cut in summer still no sunlight
Thats some nice white oak logs !! kinda a bummer to see it cut for firewood I have a real hard time getting white oak logs even paying 70 cents a bdft in log for #3 grade I just do not see nice ones like that JB
You’re welcome to come get a white oak log and I’ll throw in a couple monster Poplar logs. The big poplar comes down as soon as I can get the playground set moved.
I thought the same about how straight that oak is. I was involved in an auction from an upholstery company that either went out of business or became an estate. The amount of oak being bid on cost wise for up to 12 foot sections was ridiculous, popular and that wasn't the only one. They had other lots of different woods but similar lengths. Oak in it's usable but raw form here will buy it high(I may notice people like oak here but I wonder if it catches the warning of folks saying they may not burn it in fear of it getting too hot where I live in PNW? But surely they'll build with it) Maybe people's confidence with it wanes depending on location.
Send a broker my way and we’ll make a deal. Forest grown White oaks are gun barrel straight and mostly knot free for 30-50’
