No not much I agree! This one is cleared for the most part so no brush but all trees. This is just two houses over. The people who live there,one of them is the assist principal at the school I work at so having that is somewhat helpful. To a motivational degree, I can keep this as a skill if Im looking for work elsewhere and use that person as a resumé resource. Im more than happy, yesterday was a busy one so more splitting and stacking will be done. But I had cut that pile in my car in 20 mins and got a good "rick" split in less than 30 min. Split like a dream.We only had an hour then it was get to a baseball game.
Then there's the metric crap-ton which is on a different level. It looks like you'll be busy. Good job! You sir need a trailer, at least.
Aye aye sir! If I can't use it now, I can still cut, split and stack until I have the chance. Dad has a riding Toro needing a tranny fix. This mofo HEAVY!
I'm jonesing to get back out in the woods and do some cutting after seeing your pictures...it's too dangerous now with the high weeds, snakes and no visibility of the land on these hillsides. I can't wait to get out in the fall and see the new blow overs, they're almost always black locust.
I think what motivates me is that since reading up on black locust qualities and whatnot its got a huge payoff. If this was pine id decline it all. Not worth it. Since this can stay on the ground awhile and not rot so much its the upper shelf. I have pine rounds that need the splitter so when that can happen, i'll get it done and its pit wood for the most part. Get out there you'll feel like a duck in the water in no time.
Sorta a before and after. I have some wood split on the left of the pile. Just got a big push and finished. Might be best to just split this stuff at home. Trailer is going home with me so I'll be loading it up pretty full when Im done here.
"Say again Houston, Ballast?", "That's affirm Aquarius, we were hoping you'd be toting a few tons of 'Black Locust' back home." "Copy that"
Can you believe my state considers black locust an "invasive species"? If so, please invade my property. I've got some pieces that have been on the ground for 10 years, still solid as a rock. I use them for fence posts and poles.
It is. But not here in Washington state. The tree propogates so much if a "mother" forms and other propogations can appear. Funny how I didn't really know about this tree until less than half a year ago. Here's the thing though, this species thrives in one place, you can find it hard to manage but this is the difficulty in deciding the variation in classification for invasive species. Mostly its the thorns that are its worst property but the flowers are said to attract the honey bees so the benefits outweigh the negatives and this isn't on our list yet.
Makes no difference to me, you got me to haul that stuff home. Not all split, but can be done fairly easily.
