I should’ve started a thread about this project when I started. Some of you might have heard about the forest fire in the Halsey national forest last August ( I think). It also got into private property, this project is just across the fence and you actually have to drive through some forest to get here. 2 very sizable hand planted cedar tree shelter belts/ windbreaks were burned on this guy’s property. He is getting some financial assistance to tear them out and replant. But the root balls have to come out too as much as possible and then the ground has to sit for a year before replanting. When I was looking at doing the job I drove along the edge and counted the trees and multiplied that by the number of rows. I estimated 1500 to 1700 trees. Gonna be a couple pretty big fires this winter. We’ve made 4 piles the pile of logs by my trailer is the only firewood in the project. Siberian elm
Quite the job there! Something you're doing for work or a side job? Can/will you take any of the cedar? Invite Sawdust Man over to mill the cedar.
Dang! I love burning cedar in my fireplace. Burns quick, hot, and cracks a lot. When I need a new beer or need to empty the bladder, it’s time to put more logs on.
Wow! Quite the project! Buzzsaw Brad introduced me to cedar as kindling. Really gets the fire going. I need to source more!
Side hustle job. I could take any/all I wanted. Nothing worth milling. There was 3 fair sized pines that I might take a little of. The one elm was really the only firewood suitable tree. I took that for the shop at work.
Cedars aren’t hard at come by around here. Almost a noxious weed. Most of them are short and bushy with branches and hardly worth the effort. Sometimes big tall straight ones come up, I got one to take down here in town if’n I ever get this project done.
He’s planning on this winter sometime. Good & cold calm day with snow cover. I told him I want to be there.
