Loaded truck pics.

Load of sugar maple and pignut hickory (buried)

 

Arborist called on Friday to see if I wanted some silver maple from a job he was doing Saturday. Ended up with this load...

 

...He said it was a large tree so I checked with Lefty to see if he wanted to bring his 16' dump trailer. He did, so we also got this. Had to zoom in as he was already leaving when I took the shot.

 

Upon his return they loaded him with another load. Got everything but one piece of the trunk.

 

Introduced the crew to pickaroons and peaveys. They had a lot of fun with them.

 

Good thing you had the dump trailer! Looks like some great stuff and a lot of wood

 

Mixed load. Norway maple, cherry and a bit of dead elm. 361 "riding shotgun"

 

Why doesn’t the Stihl get to ride up front?

 

Tree ripened pignut and sugar

Both trees had me checking the edge on the chain.

 

Amazing how hard some of that dead standing can be. I really notice it with dead standing oak. Chain seems to just chatter sometimes. Good looking load of wood. Do you sell that as soon as it’s split or put it in the rotation with the rest of the firewood?

 

Another load of oak. Looked like somebody had sawn on it months ago and got their farmboss bar stuck and gave up. Didn't want to overload the old girl, will be back with the 2500 tomorrow.

Brought the guard dog.

Made it back home, glad I didn't load any more than i did, this stuff is heavy.


No idea what type of oak.

 

It depends on what kind of rack is open. I started out using brackets and 2x4’s, so if I have a few of those available I’ll separate some that will be ready sooner. If they are going on pallets at a fence line, I’ll stack green on back row and dead, or faster drying wood on front row.

 

I’d say it’s Northern Red

 

It was guarding the load!

261, tool box and other work stuff in the cab. My toolbox on wheels as i sometimes call it.

 

Too bad there's no black locust near you. Cut that stuff standing/down dead. Amazing how dense it is.

 

There’s some around me, just don’t have a lot of access to it. I cut up two in the last couple years. Always set it aside for myself I’ll keep an eye out for some dead standing black locust. Bucket list

 

That second pic with the guy on top of the stem shows just how big that tree was. That’s a big gun! That’ll turn into a lot of splits for you

 

Yep, 36" bar on their 661c. Will end up with lots of chunky monkeys but hey, they burn too. We also have customers that will request them when purchasing wood.

 

Haven't been out in months, and moving a bit slower now, but it felt good to get out and scrounge this beech blowdown I've been eyeballing for a while.

 

Now there’s a wood that is getting scarce around here.

In our local woods many of older big Beech is hollow and dying. Still a few big ones back on the hill. Plenty of smaller sapling Beech, but zero between sapling and old giants. Sort of strange.

Love it when the squirrels are working them.