A friend asked me to cut some hedge posts for him so like a dumbass or glutton for punishment, I said yes. Last 2 days or carnage, no firewood will be made just fence posts. Everything else will get shoved into a pile & burned. One broken starter rope, a broken chain, multiple pinches of the bar BUT no claret leaking so that a win. A 12” Hackberry grown up into this one … A damm big mulberry but I don’t have time to prik with it. Maybe the brush can get shoved up around this blight on the landscape then lit up …
It would take a forest worth of brush to roast all the sky blights within sight of my house. Over 300 of them I’m told. Thankfully they are at least 10 miles away but we can still watch those hundreds of red lights flash all night long.
My number 1 bucket list wood to cut, split, and burn. Someday someday.....Im almost considering asking a guy a few miles from me who has a grove of them if he'd take a hundred and let me cut a smaller one
Hopefully he has a single stand alone tree otherwise you will be cutting 3-5 of them to get them in the ground. The tops grow together/intertwine terrible, even the smallest of branches will hold them up. He may let you cut one for free just for entertainment purposes. Good luck.
Always enjoy your threads with hedge Jim. For the amount of work I'd be dang sure to get some firewood from that. Of course because we don't have any around here. Like BuckeyeFootball its my bucket list wood and would pay for it too.
I'm with you! I hate those damm things! They kill 600K to a million birds of prey a year! They are NOT needed!
I used to cut trees just like that for firewood, almost exclusively, for years. I don't miss it at all. The live trees bleed tar for sap, the dead ones' branches are indestructible and snag and hang up on everything. Lots of thorns and the splinters created when splitting are something from satan's nightmares. Even the small pieces are heavy. But it does burn good.
Do these require a special hard chain or just buck up like normal wood? If it's a problem, is it just the wood or do the trunks contain sand any more than other species? I know where an entire pasture full is, have thought about approaching the rancher. When I was young, my dad had a place exactly like I describe, chock full of them.
The bark holds a lot of dirt/soil. Some have splits or hollows in the that contain a lot of debris. I have found several old walnuts in some of these. I just use full chisel chain, I take several chains & multiple saws. The old dead stuff is pretty darn hard.
