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Operation Chestnut Oak clean up has officially begun

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  1. The Wood Wolverine

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    mike bayerl looks like you may be investing in a csm soon? :thumbs:
     
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    That is a nice looking tree. Your saw bar is upside down though.
     
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    Thats so he doesn't have to flip the saw over to read what brand bar he has.....:picard:

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  4. mike bayerl

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    I'd much rather pay someone with a band saw mill. Much quicker.
     
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    Your back cuts look a lot like my back cuts.
     
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  6. mike bayerl

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    A little wonky, eh? One nice thing about this stand is it's at the edge of an area that was heavily cut about 5 yrs ago by the former owner of the land (extracting timber$ before selling). This means I can basically drop them any direction I want without damaging other trees, so I can just go with the natural direction of fall. It also made it easy to clear a skidding road (~100ys) in to it.
     
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  7. DonE

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    I have a lot of chestnut oak here also.... makes great firewood.

    Not exactly firewood related, but will the deer in PA eat the acorns? The deer down here would rather starve than eat chestnut oak acorns. Bears will eat them eventually.
     
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  8. mike bayerl

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    Hard to say. We have a mix of chestnut, white, black and other red oaks, with plenty of beech and few hickory too. Between the deer, turkeys and squirrels, etc., it's hard to say who's eating what.
     
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    We have a mix also.... every few years the chestnuts will be the only oak that makes acorns... I have seen deer ( obviously thin and hungry ) walk over chestnut acorns and refuse to eat them..... local hunters swear to never hunt in the area of chestnut oaks... american chestnuts (when they make) are the favorite followed by the white and red oaks.
     
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    My friends and I have killed a lot of deer under our chestnut oak stands.
     
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    Well... I think we have challenged deer or something.
     
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    Actually I have found for the most part that it really does not affect the direction of fall that much. The lean of the tree has more of an effect. Here is one of mine. Pictures don't lie.

    You can see the top stump was not exactly straight. But it still fell right where I wanted.

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    Haven't you ever noticed that in most of any pictures featuring saws, bar name is upside down. I get quite a chuckle out of it.
     
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    Well I guess those people are at least getting even wear on both sides of their bar even though it does look odd.
     
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    If you want your bar to last at all, you flip it over every time you have the chain off for some reason. I get quite a chuckle out of people that don't read their manuals.
     
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    At least half of the time anyway.
     
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    That is funny because I was anal about making sure the words looked right. Now I need to find some free time to dig into my manual a little better.
     
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    Got some quality time in today playing pick-up-sticks with the oaks I have down. I cut out a few potential saw logs (8'6" and 16'6" by about 14" heart wood diameter) and started buck and hauling out the the firewood too. I put some serious time in on the MS461 today.
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    I only got 1.5 of the 8 down trees processed so far.
     
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