Do You See What I See?

Passed this Friday, spotting this one log near the road. Black locust, fresh cut.

Spied the others on the little hilltop out of the corner of my eye. No time to stop. No time till today to get back there. Been jonesing since. Mania has been building. Fresh cutting back from the wires. Mightve been a leaner. Hastily cut and felled. PITA to get nice rounds. Lots of nuggets.
Nice heaping load. At least a half cord. More there as well as prior cutting from years ago. Hiding under the prickers and overgrowth. Common thing on roadside BL scores. LOCUST MANIA BABY! Gotta love it!

 

Must be nice to live in Locust town. Sweet score. Looks like it gave someone some trouble.

 

What do you use the meat cleaver for? Chopping you way in??

 

Yahtzee!!!

 

Another good hoard!

 

Love the look of that stump

 

Sort of. I use the reverse hook to slice off vines & prickers. Sometimes for light machete work. Spearing rounds for carrying, removing loose bark etc.
Versatile Tool

 

It's like a big game hunter tracking a massive predator I tell ya!

 

There was a lot more there than the pictures let on! I can't figure out what is going on in that fifth picture?

 

Thats the stump cut off laying on its side showing their "felling technique"

 

I'm so jelly!!

Is that green grass I see? I haven't seen green grass in months!

 

Oh wow! That would have been something to see!

 

Best answer....

 

Good eye and good catch.

 

Wasnt really planning on going back there today but a delivery took me past it so got the rest of the fresh cut and an old blown down trunk with some clean up and limb wood. More there still. Didnt have clippers to clear the way for this. Did find and excavate more years old remnant wood to get washed off. Another trip in the future.
Face cord for todays load. BL rack for barkless has been opened up at storage so i can S/S as it arrives.

 

Does you buy lottery tickets? Would you buy me 4 or 5? I'll sends ya da monys fer dem! I ain't neber seed a feller wit dat kinda luck! Da man wit dat locust touch yous is.

 

FIFY!

I stopped playing lotto/etc when tickets went up from a dollar.

 

Doesn't get much better than that. Good job Brad.

 

Split some over the weekend and more today. Set a half cord rack and stacked away. More than a half cord once i finish splitting. Amazes me how bulkier the bark on BL is vs. barkless.

 

We don't have BL around here, looks amazing! Kind of a cross between Live Oak and Manzanita but straighter.