Good job, FBF. That one was most certainly a monster. 3 cords of white oak should make a fine reward for your effort. Good stuff!
Even it took me a week or more in spare time I'd have grabbed all those cookies/odd chunks & carried them out 2-3 at a time.And went back & noodled that big crotch into manageable sized (25-40 lbs each) to grab it also.White Oak takes years before it rots & its not like someone else would venture down those slopes to steal it. Waste not,want not!
WoW! .... Thats a big un' Definitely got lucky on that one that it fell in the right way. Good to see you Flatbedford ..
Monster! Gotta ask why you didn`t pull it down closer to the road with a chain or something. Piece by piece of course...
I think I signed up when this forum started, but didn't post much, or at all then. I kinda dropped off the internet over the last year due to a whole slew of life changing events. I came back to the other place a few days ago to find that a bunch of folks were gone. It seems they have all come here. I don't have nearly the time for any forum that I used to nowadays, but a least I know where you all went. I sold the old Ford in July of 2013. It had stopped running and the rust was getting pretty bad. I knew that I didn't have the time or the money to give it the attention that it needed at 43 years old. It now belongs to a friend of mine's brother and is in the midst of a major restoration. When finished, the truck's new home will be in New Hampshire and it will be hauling firewood. The new owner posts at the other site and uses a picture of the truck as his avatar.
Nice to see you again Flatbedford! That's a beast, and although they can be a pain working up, I love the challenge and reward of the big stuff. I bet that white oak smells heavenly!
I pulled a bunch of it out with my IH Cub Cadet GT and my F250. It just got too big and too far down in the hole to get it out. I was starting to break things and felt that it was unsafe to go any further. I don't want to break my stuff or injure myself for another 1/4 cord of wood. There is plenty more around me that id easier to get at. I pulled small stuff with the GT. and dragged ones like this with the F250. This was about 25' up with a 25" bar on the MS362. One round noodled and split small enough to lift into the F250.
good deal. I`ve got a big oak in a gulley at the house that recently fell and I `m plotting a way to drag it out with the tractor but there are a lot of other healthy trees in the way.... I`m sure I`ll have some pics when that one starts...
Wow. Good to see you posting Flatbed. I know how much oak you have around there and I'd probably have done the same as you. Sometimes it just is not worth the extra work.
Funny thing is that I never got to burn any of it. We sold the house and the wood in the fall of 2016 and moved to Las Vegas.
