Got a lead on some free wood and did some chainsawing this weekend. All oak, some a little past its prime, but free is free. About a cord pictured, which we got on Saturday. Got another 1/4 of that on Sunday. Got to noodle for the first time Goes a lot faster when you cut in the long direction of the round than across the diameter. Didn't understand how the term noodling came about until I tried cutting in the long direction.
some nice looking future firewood Joe P. I had never heard the term noodling until i joined FHC! Ive cut that way, but never knew it had a name.
That is still good wood. However, to make it really good and stop it from going bad further, I suggest you get that split as soon as possible and then stack it off the ground.
I know where ya got that from! The noodling material makes great fire starter, as it dries fast. I don't noodle much anymore, as I bring my splitting maul into the woods with me and hand split all the big stuff so I can load them into my trailer.
I’ll heat My house for an entire season on stuff “ a little past it’s prime”. I was just cutting some red oak the other day that looked about like what you have there. Long as it’s got a good core, you just have to feed the firebox a little more often. Good looking stack, Joe I agree with backwoods savage in that you’ll want to get it split, stacked, off the ground, and covered sooner than later to maintain what you have.
Goes a lot faster when you cut in the long direction of the round than across the diameter. View attachment 254712 [/QUOTE] And your saw doesn't try to bounce out of your hands.
Yup, that's how this, went from this... (70' boom fully extended there) ...to this...just the MS290 to cut a kerf, couple wedges, and a Fiskars maul... By the way, that is my MS660/32" bar sitting on the stump in the second pic there...big ole dead stander, (well, half of it, was a two stem tree, the south 50% of 'er was taken down 5-6 years ago already) been dead for a few years now...little punky on the outside, but still a TON of future heat here!
Not really...it was stinkin COLD that day! That area tends to lay wet, so we had the tree trimmers come when the ground was frozen well enough that they could get their truck in there. That pic was from early March of last year IIRC...the others are recent, because I let the trunk stand until a few weeks ago. No, that is the tree trimmers that the power utility contracts with...that is their high voltage lines you see behind the boom there...they had no problem topping that old dead Oak out for us since it would have easily taken the lines down if it fell...and it had been dropping some large branches during high winds so... I have not done bucket work trimming trees (well, I did do some at the neighbors place, he hoisted me up in a man basket on his Gradall boom lift to trim some branches...but that probably wasn't even 15-20' off the ground) but I have done industrial maintenance work from the basket of a 125' JLG boom lift...fully extended...and it was parked on a hill that was at least 30' taller than the surrounding area, so it was more like 150' to the ground! Let me tell ya, when you are yanking on 2.5-3' long wrenches standing at the end of a 125' long "fishing pole", the sway takes some getting used to!
