nice looking pics as usual, Zap....and I'll concur, that is a DANDY cherry log! I just bucked one up yesterday morning, going to split it up sometime today. I'll post pics... love those woodlands you have up there!
When I was back in the woods today hauling out some split cherry, I decided to check on a certain area when I heard a ATV, it was on the property next to ours but I found this.
Careful on that one zap. It looks quite high where the break is. Reminds me of an ash we had to cut like that. Don't remember for sure how high it was where the break was but I left that tree for a couple years as it kept growing leaf! After it died, then I cut from the top toward the butt and cut as high as I could then fell the rest of the trunk. It worked out great except that the carpenter ants had found a new home.
The last one I did like this, I hooked the cable up to the top (it's on the ground) I was able to peel that sucker off the stump pulling it with the rhino.
Of course it's hard to tell from a picture, but it looks like what is left of the base has a slight lean. I think I would just notch that on the side toward that double cherry and then drop it. It looks like it would flop that way pretty easy. You could put a little pressure with the Rhino if wanted. Again "disclaimer" I am looking at pictures. You know this gig pretty well Zap.
The odds are against it being good but time will tell. I'll start keeping track on how many are good compared to bad.
Thanks Gasifier, it should be real windy in your area today, the only thing I want mother nature to do in this storm is bring down a few widowmakers.
The wind has been here, gone, and came back. I was out on the tractor early brush hogging the trail until I came across several down trees. I cut all of them up and got them off the trail. As I made my way back around to the truck a new one was down in my way. It had only been about an hour since I left that area. LOL.
It looks like all the nasty chit is staying south of us at the moment. Will those downed trees become firewood?
Yes on the firewood. When I get time to harvest it. Mostly dead elm. Some White Pine. Some will also become ground cover for animals. They like the cover as you know. Lots of wabbits around here this year. Must be that time of the cycle.
This weekend is a bust azz weekend in the woods, I'll be opening up one trail that has two hemlocks down, I should be doing some milling of some pine I left on the trail just down from the hemlocks. Once I get the hemlocks out of there I expect to find more downed wood from the storms, I'll be doing more but the hemlocks will take more time than anything.
I'm sure some of it is rotten but they usually have some rot even when they're upright. I haven't cut much Cherry lately so maybe next spring when that meadow doesn't have tall grass in it, I'll take a good look at it and if it's good wood, I'll take it. The Cherry on our lot took a heavy hit from a few windstorms, we ended up with over five years worth of firewood from all the Cherry that got knocked down. The first hill I ever worked when we started burning firewood, we had over 13 Cherry down, that was my first real cutting with the Stihl 310. I think this will still have some good firewood in it but we'll see.
