Made it to the cabin this weekend to find the cabin ok but a little tree damage after a recent storm. Three good sized oaks blocking the trail. One othe the oaks took out a large red maple and a cherry tree. Worked on clearing the path for the 4wheeler. There's a lot more downed trees to clean up but some of them will have to wait until Fall. Here's a pickup load of oak. There is about 5 cherry logs in there also that I wanted to bring home for the smoker. I've got a lot more work to do to get it all cleaned up. Take a look at this crooked joker.
I've got a friend back in our March windstorm had a couple 75' pines uproot he started blocking out top down when she decided to stand back in to place. No one hurt just a mangled ms362 that landed about 30 yards away
Wow that sounds like a scary situation. I just bought chaps. This making me think of upper body protection.
That's what all the wild black cherry trees look like here. I don't think I've ever seen a straight one. Maybe a fairly straight one or a trunk that was straight for about 5 or 6 feet. Sassafras can get some funny looking bends too.
I sold this cherry tree last winter. He got a nice straight 16foot log plus a number of shorter ones.
Stacking it like that is a good way to loose a back window if one rolls foward as you brake. I know you were probably just one woods trails but even then I'd hate to see one shift on a down hill and bust that glass. You again were probably on level ground. I stack perpendicular to how you stack to avoid that.
Planning on building any wooden ships or timber frames? Nice haul! Well feast your eyes on these: Sorry for the ! I've been thinking about harvesting a nice cherry while I've got the sawmill guy here. It'll probably be this one:
A cherry tree that size would certainly have black ants here in our area. At least in the first couple feet.
