Well most of the time. New tree guy I've connected with gives me a couple days notice of his next job. Clearing for a barn build and access. They will usually cut them up very soon after, so I wanted dibs to buck them myself as their cuts and lengths are atrocious. Sugar maple and an old shagbark remnant from prior cutting, (bark loose and meat solid) made for a decent load. Probably gonna wait for the rest to be skidded out other than some red cedar logs for milling I may grab sooner.
8" and up IIRC. Larger than usually seen. I had to section one up to back in. Cut 8'6". Looks like they were part of the earlier clearing work done as they were topped, limbed and left there. Chatting with the tree guy and I guess the prior company never returned to haul away what they had left hence the hickory. Some smaller beech and another big barkless log I didn't ID close to where I cut looked salvageable too. There was also four standing cedars he is taking down in the future. Three of those were sizable enough to mill. You need some cedar for a project?
Nope. No projects in mind for me. I’m not sure I ever saw a red cedar. Probably have, just not cut down. I remember going to a burial in a cemetery that had massive cedar trees but not the normal aromatic cedar I’m familiar with. Maybe they were red cedars? Take some pics if you go back.
Different type of tree...arborvitae IINM. ERC very common tree. Common sight in an open fields and along stone walls as they love sunlight. If they get choked out they will die. They rarely get big like EWP, fir or hemlock at least in my observations.
Unloaded yesterday. No room on maple mountain so I started another row of rounds. Im hoarding it faster than I can process it which isn't a bad thing.
True, but this time of the year I don't like having rounds sit for too long. They weather fast plus bugs/mold seem to appear out of nowhere. At least this stack is in the sun which lessens that IME.
Hit the score again today despite the showers. Tree guy was going back and I wanted to go when he was there. Cleared around some of the cedar mill logs and cut them to size. One good sized log plus another small pile of them to prep. Cut all older logs this trip (tree guy was taking the green) as I have immediate customers for them. Sugar and red maple with some beech. Pretty solid yet for 18 month old logs. Buried log deck of mostly Goldilocks sugar maple I'll hit next time.
Split last weeks load right onto the truck and sold to a regular. Red and sugar maple, beech and some elm I had from a prior score. Moved some ash splits next door to bundle storage. (I stacked more after the pic was taken) Another load at the score to cut plus the first load to split which I may do today.
Split most of the sugar maple from the first load. A few rounds left. Maybe 2/3 went next door and stacked for bundle wood. Barkless splits set aside there for smoker inventory.
