I really need to stop browsing FBM for free wood. New listing for shagbark hickory. My heart dropped when I got there as the guy told me I could back right up to it. Decided to schlep it across the front yard anyhow. Mostly Goldilocks and limb wood taken. PITA tree service lengths! Found some mulberry buried underneath. I've seen stump "vomit" on birch but never on SBH. Just over an hours work so not too bad. Light sprinkle had started and i got my fill. Not my usual heaping load but a good face cord. What is still there. Big dogwood up in back I'll go back for as a novelty score. Looks like it was cut with a super dull saw Homeowner must've cut it down.
Remote chance to go diagonally over front yard. I almost left when I got there after seeing it. Guy called me as he saw me on the video doorbell and I spoke with him. Only PMing on FB the other communication. He was willing to help so maybe next time. The dogwood is downhill from the back yard.
It was worth it. What a shame to fell a big dogwood like that. I treat dogwoods like gold, lol. I *never* cut them down; they fall on their own. Not a very hardy tree, seems to me, I lose a bunch every year. I have to get them quick if they die, else, they go to rot real fast. Often, by time I see one down or leaning, it's too late, it's gone bad already. I am actually creating a dogwood trail, is super nice in March each year.
I consider that a huge Dogwood. They never get that big here. If they did, I'd go after them more. BTU bonanza!
Fond memories of a teen cutting tall skinny dead dogwood from my dads lot. Growing wild, mostly barkless and hard as rocks. We would drag a bunch out and he would feed me while I bucked them on the saw horse. Burned hot in his basement fireplace. Rare I come across any worth taking, let alone cut to my size. If a tree service did this it would've gotten chipped.
The rounds from this score have been sitting since I got them home. Kinda undecided where to stack them. Had some leftover HL splits so I started a half cord of primo btu wood in the new rack I built. Split all the hickory and dogwood and stacked. Lots of HL chunklies to noodle into split to finish the stack. Borers were feasting on the SBH. Lots of frass on the rounds.
Oh yes. Some wood even after it's CSS will get powder post beetles in it, hickory and pecan especially. I've seen them get in oak logs that are only a few weeks old. Borers may get under the bark after a couple months.
