Good on you for getting ahead with your wood. If you plan on burning full time I'd guess you will burn at least 4 cord per year. I've never noticed a difference in drying time on different areas of trees unless you cut dead standing. Then the wood at the bottom (usually about the bottom third) will have more moisture than the top.
It was 45.4 this morning with some winds and rain so we had a fire with the ash we had inside, we also put more ash in for a few more fires. I thought that I checked all the trails around the house after the winds we had but today I noticed this poplar, hopefully I have this down before the end of next week. I did get the branch of basswood c/s/s today, it wasn't raining when I started but mother nature made sure that I had a second shower.
What's that triangle looking thing on the tripod for???? Don't tell me you sit while you split? Let me guess just where you got that bad habit from???!!!!!!!
We had some bad winds Friday. We live in an area that is 100 or so ft lower that the surrounding area. Several trees are down in the little town up the hill.
I checked a different area today, just one small cherry that the wind took down and a good part of it was rotten.
We pulled this ash off the hill, the first part came down through some rotten pine, the second part was pulled down to the pine and out to my cutting area for the day. I also felled what was standing and bucked that up after getting it down the hill. It wasn't the best ash I've taken from that area but we'll get some btu's out it. I was unhooking the cable when a fawn came running down the trail, when the fawn finally notice me it turned around and it ran back up the hill.
Thanks T.Jeff Veal , yesterdays haul off the hill brought back bad memories of cutting some chitty beech that was past its prime. I was tired of looking at it when I drove in the sandpit area so I took care of it, some will get mixed in with the basswood and the better wood will get stacked with the maple. I put some trail cams out yesterday, my wife saw the coyote leaving our property so I'm hoping it's either coming in near the sandpit or off the hill in the back the deer come down, I didn't catch the yote on either camera overnight but they'll be back. I never notice there's a deer in the first picture where I was working yesterday (sunny area).
I had said that this would be down by the tomorrow afternoon but when I checking the position of the top of the popple in the pine tree it dropped some and a branch came down. We'll see if we get some heavy rains later tomorrow afternoon and if that does anything to it. The wife did say no messing around with a cable on it hooked up to the RTV, she said it's tractor time so hopefully it's down by the middle of the week.
Well, if she says no messing around then it's no messing around! I'll get the same type of advice from 99 on occasion............and I've got the scars to prove it!
The first time I pulled down a widowmaker with the tractor, I shorten the cable by pulling too hard and shortened it by x amount of feet. It was short enough after I fixed it that when the tractor finally pulled it out, it landed within 15 feet of the tractor, a bit close for me. This tree will be different, I'll make sure the area just above my cut has a tree saver on it hooked up to a cable that will be anchored to another tree just so it hopefully doesn't kick back in the area I'm cutting. We'll get a d-shackle and snatch block on that too.
