Been watching this dead Red Oak for a few years now just waiting for the right time. Well today was it so down it came still has the bark on it but to close to the pool house to let it go any longer.
That looks like it's been dropping branches for a year or two. I have a couple of leaners I need to get to here as well. I have that same squirrel excluder on a similar 3 arm bird feeder pole. They try. Mostly the young ones. We have mostly eastern white pine, a scrub pine that looks like red pine but isn't, hemlock, holly and atlantic white cedar here for evergreens . I think the "scrub" pines are the same pitch pines that predominate in the poor sandy soils of the pine barrens along the eastern seaboard.
Very nice indeed gboutdoors , we wish it could all be nice Oak like that, lucky you, and good for you!
Yes we have hemlock. I'm burning some that didn't make it thru the drought and gypsy moth caterpillars three years ago. One I cut up for firewood as it was on the edge of where I cut lawn and another the woodpeckers are shredding. I usually mix the hemlock in with the white pine although it does burn a tiny bit better. I also just recently found two tiny what I think are balsam firs. I'm not sure. One I dug up and put in a pot as it was not in a good place and another is in the woods near my mailbox. They are on the list of native trees but I had never seen them growing anywhere near here before. They could be from seeds from a introduced tree planted in a nearby yard as well.
They, balsam fir, are a dominant tree up to my camp, but not common where I live, but you'll come across one here and there.
Working on year four stacks now so the tops may be used for fire pit this year and the pool heater but the rest will be VERY well seasoned by the time I get to it.
