Those two ash that were big and dead, are now down. The arborist friend of my buddy's, came over and I helped him drop these two trees. He knew it would drop close to the wood shed. Perfect! Just enough room to get the tractor and trailer through. Here's the smaller ash in the front yard. The arborist works for asplundh, so there may be future scores from this.
This is also the guy that dropped off a couple cords of elm at my buddy's place. He also only charged a fraction of what other places charged. I used the ariens garden tractor to help pull these two down.
Sweet! Cant get much closer than that. Some good wood to be had! Good to have connections too. Wanna see that shed filled by the end of the day Hork!
How far to Wisconsin are you on your road trip? Tree in front is all limbed and 1 tank of gas through the 6421. I flipped the bar and put a freshly sharpened woodland pro chain on before I started. Going back out now. I'm debating taking the branches to the edge of the road and having our town haul them away for a smallish fee. $65. 1 hr minimum. I think there's a ban on fires right now because it's been so dry. Plus, I've got enough work to do. I know what the wife says. I look at it as that $65 will buy a nice fish or coral for my aquarium.
Could throw the brush in a pile and then light 'er off some rainy day...that's how the farmers burn their brush piles often times...
Yep. That's what I've been doing. There's really not that much brush from the front tree. Burn barrel going. 2 trailers full so far, and probably a third. The wood from the front tree is almost all cut up. 2 tanks of gas burnt in the 6421. We're also having a fire in the fire pit on the patio tonight. Gotta cut up a few sticks for the fire tonight. The highest mm reading I've seen from the front tree was 22%. Not like it will matter as this wood will not be burned for a couple of winters from now. I'll post up pictures tonight. Gotta finish up out there now, for today at least.
Ok as promised, pictures. Badger inspecting my work. The ariens doing it's thing That's all I had for today. I did split some more of the wood I got from my buddy's gf's house as well. Yeah, I don't need the branch pick up from the town. There will be a lot of taking as the twigs all fell off the branches upon the tree hitting the ground. The sticks I'll cut up like I did for tonight's fire. The highest moisture content was 23%, so I knew it would burn great outside. There's some uglies, but great for this purpose.
See what I mean by there will be a lot of raking to clean up the twigs? It really shouldn't be that bad. I only burned about half of that gorilla cart of uglies in the fire pit last night. That reminds me that I'll need to empty the ashes from that and repaint it again. Seems like a yearly event repainting it. Whatever, it is what it is, and if it looks better and lasts longer because I paint it, that's even better. I also see the line where the hydro leak is on the tractor. It's just 5w-30 so a jug of the cheap stuff works, but I should really see if I can fix that. Some people's on the ariens GT group say that often it's just an o ring if your hoses are fine, which they appear to be
Ok this " easy splitting straight grained ash" just sheared my lovejoy coupler( s) on my splitter. This was the piece that did it.
So I should've started on the big boy rounds first. Now I have to either noodle them, or leave them whole and roll them around to not kill the lawn, or sledge and wedge. I think I'll leave them until I get the splitter fixed and just roll them around every couple of days as to not kill the grass. All the rest I can just cut and haul. I was planning on splitting in place as to only pick up the rounds once. Oh well... Here's where a FEL would be nice.
