A neighbor wants me to cut down a couple of trees for her. Just wondering what you guys think they might be.
1st one looks like a Cedar/Juniper 2nd...hmmm...Leaves singly look like an elm but the leaf cluster resembles Locust from around here.
First one reminds me of some type of cedar. A closeup of the needles/leaves would help. The leaves of the second one says walnut to me. The shape of the tree and the bark is about right too. Slice a twig of the second one lengthwise, and see if the pith has a bunch of chambers.
1st Christmas tree, Second a nut tree? Houses and power lines would have me saying no. They look like nice tree's,wonder why she wants them down?
I have no idea why she wants them down. She has cleaned up the property quite a bit since husband passed. Gotten rid of junk cars and tore down a dilapidated shed. Its looks pretty good now.
First tree looks like Cedar of some kind. No idea what the second one is. Those cedar trees can live for 100's of years, and they take a long time to get as big as that one. They both look like beautiful, healthy trees - and seem like they are pretty well positioned. It's a shame she wants them removed.
Im with the cedar/juniper & walnut crowd. Ashamed to cut them down. Look healthy and not in the way... but if she wants em gone all the better for a wood hoarding, chain saw wielding neighbor. Did you get your new saw yet SD Steve ?
Second might be pecan? My immediate impression when I looked at the leaves. I have a plantation of pecans at the tree farm.
That's what I thought too.... I don't really want to cut them down. I'm all in on a dead or fallen tree for wood, but shoot, I don't like cutting down good, living trees.....
Yes, I did get the MS311 , 20" bar like I talked about before. I even took it down to Texas (from South Dakota) where my parents moved. They needed to cut up a couple of stumps that are on their property. I tried a bit but didn't know that the stumps were darn near petrified. I thought I was gonna break my saw. Had to tell my folks to just deal with it.
We need good solid living trees for firewood BTUs. Dead or long time fallen trees that are punky or rotted don't give any heat needed for the two stoves. Any woodlot needs forestry management: thinning for future growth is what we do. The 6-8 cords each year harvested help the remaining woodland growth. Think what happened in the California fires when woodlands were not managed for years because of the lack of proper Forestry.
I might go with pecan, but the number of leaflets in pecan is smaller than on walnut. From the pics, I think there are a lot more leaflets than pecan has. OP might ask if the tree ever produced some large green things that looked like green tennis balls, or a smaller nut that was more oblong in shape?
I always get a little nervous cutting stumps. Other than the stump debacle, how are you liking the saw? I thought it was a 311 but wasnt 100% sure.
Titan came for the drive and first time he didnt puke in the truck. Guess i shoulda stopped but figured that would of been ignorant. Not a very good pic but the big shed on the left has caved in and the whole right of roof should have been re-shingled 20 years ago. Junk laying around everywhere and i see the neighbor is 'trying' to sell his place. The place looks better in the picture and there is a smaller caved in shed on the right. I shouldnt be knocking someone elses home but jeez spend a few bucks on it when the welfare cheques come in.
That cedar looks like a white cedar. Great for building stuff if can have it milled up. I use white cedar to build boats and anything else that needs to be light weight and stay stable and straight. Cut a piece of limb if you see red then it's Eastern red cedar.
