What You Should Be Doing: May, June, July

so not may, june, or july. got it!

 

Yeah. Richard Jarard. No idea how to spell his last name.

 

idk what that even means

 

The radio guy I mentioned.

 

Garden
Cook meat with fire
Drink beers

 

Reaper what kind of stand you trying to work on? Not to derail the thread.
Some trees will tolerate springtime pruning. It can also be a good time to thin as the trees are budding - they will drop some considerable moisture content if dropped while buds are developing

 

Derailed! Selective timber harvest of oaks and whatever tulip poplar they can get to (most of those are on steep slope at front of property). Idk if they would want any of the hickory and likely not the black birch. Hope to be marking trees soon with my forester. I have been working on blowdowns from sandy but there is only one left. I got two big oaks next the the house to get. Then i will tackle the ugly trees in the woods until i have tops from logging to work on. Just looking to future generations of trees coming up and i want them to be of high quality. Only ten acres of woods here but still plenty to cut as things are kinda messy right now.

 

If we are going to derail Grizz's thread, lets at least do a proper derail as defined by the FHC standard.
What beer are we drinking?

 

Black and tan last night

 

Pete-- I am hoping to make some progress on that task myself over the weekend, if we get everything else done that is.

 

Depends on the size of branches you are removing, bigger branches are like you posted-dormant, ones smaller then your thumb can be pruned any time but you don't want to get carried away as it can hurt the growth of the tree.

 

If things are kind messy right now....just wait until the harvesting is over
Don't believe I've ever seen even a select cut that didn't look like a bombscare after they pull out

 

Yep as a forester I recommend pruning when trees are dormant. I prefer fall after leaves have fallen to winter.


And in the summer you clean chimney and turn into a wood cutting fool.

 

Aside from getting dirt for the raised garden beds I built, finally getting around to finishing the basement, and other household chores:

• finish splitting the black locust (over halfway there)
• C/S/S more dead pine for 2014/15
• play around with some variation on this solar kiln design
• cut and scrounge quicker drying hardwoods for 2015/16

 

By messy i ment broken tops, arched trees, trees growing at all kinds of angles besides straight up...
Likely the outfit that will cut me will be the one that just went through the property behind mine. They did a really nice job i thought. Didnt really make roads, just used the skidder to drag everything out. Cut all the tops so they layed flat on the forest floor.

 

You can cut up to about 49 acres with out making a road. Just drag go g back to one dock. This all depends on the company crew, their equipment and business model though.

I have had clear cuts up to 60 acres come to one dock.

 

Fish. Drink cold beer.
Keep yard mowed. Drink cold beer.
Vegetable garden. Fish, mow yard, drink cold beer.
Build lots of fires in back yard. Drink cold beer.
Camp, canoe, fish, build fires. drink cold beer. (no cold beer while in canoe!!)
Admire well tended yard/garden after a day of fishing, build fire, drink cold beer.
Repeat 'till it cools off and c/s/s/ firewood in the fall.