Meant to post this last week. This white oak was the largest tree ive ever felled and processed. Friend of mine hired me to fell and buck three trees last September. 5+ cords between the three, all white oaks. Two biggest were dead and third was dying...all victims of the GMC. He gave me some of the wood and even let me stack in his yard. (he wanted a cord of cut rounds for "rent" within a year which ive already "paid" in beech) I bucked the biggest one pictured and split what i wanted. He was going to finish the with his splitter, but getting it in there or getting the wood out hadnt been done yet. He did me a big favor recently so i decided to split and noodle the rest for him. Few bigger logs and stump left to process. He gave me a bit more to finish one stack of mine that was incomplete. Waiting for ground to dry and him to decide where to stack then ill use my PU to get it out. At least a dozen huge dead white oaks to fell between him and the neighbor next Winter. My avatar pic from September. Pics from September.
That i do Midwinter, that i do. Im trying to get him on the three year plan and get a better storage/shed system. He has a hodge podge of piles/mounds etc with an assortment of colored tarps. Id like to build a shed for him similar to Ashwatchers. Some of the oaks are as massive as the one pictured. We have to make a trail through the woods for his lawn tractor to access them.
I'm kinda liking the white oaks that grew tall, thin and straight up through the canopy better than the shorter fat round ones that grow in a yard with no competition. LOts of branch firewood to a yard tree and a nice looking tree but all those branches mean a lot of crotches that don't split easy. Nice stack of firewood when it is done and finally seasoned.
