A day off, another tree job

We may have thorns on our black locust trees in Ct but we don’t have quicksand that swallows tractors whole yikes that ditch looks carnivorous. LOL
Nice work Jeff. Busy busy man,,,and wife.

 

Where are they supposed to meet now jeff? Diamond Rio - Meet in the middle

 

A customer and friend had a dead pine he wanted taken down before it fell on his camper. Saturday morning worked out well as they were gone camping this weekend.
The victim...
The green is PO vines
Biggest PO vine I think I've seen
Ready for battle
Took out a small ironwood and saved a few sticks...

Used the MS180 to clear brush and PO vines...
The MS461 and 28" bar did the felling...
Safely down in the yard...
Used the grapple to pull as much vines off before bucking
A load of itchiness...
Used the XS362 to buck the pine...
The main PO vine...
Got it all on 1 load...
Done before lunch, with yard raked clean...

 

Frequent sight here too with PI smothering a dead tree. The cherry i cut yesterday had some on it. Very common on roadside wood.

What is to become of the load? Hope that isnt going to the wood yard!

 

I agree w/ Brad.. that's dump material!

 

Quite the vine!

Nice job!

 

I’m scratching just reading this!

 

We dumped it here on our place where they had clear cut the pines.

 

I’ll bet it was nice and balmy in that onesie! Well worth the sweat though to not get poison oak all over you. Good idea!

 

Felt so good, I wanted to wear it all day......

 

Miz Carol informed me last night... ...the next job we do that involves PO/ PI ...she's sitting in the truck and watching me...

 

If she's wearing one of those tyvek suits be sure to post pics!

 

Helping out a neighbor yesterday, their daughter is moving into the house and they are getting a single wide trailer to put at the back of the property. He had cut about 3 pines and a small sweet gum. Needed some help with the bigger trees.
The backyard area. That's 1 of the bigger pines behind the tractor
Some of the carnage later
The brush pile to burn later
We will haul the logs to the chip mill next week...
After we were done...
Wish Sawdust Man was closer...

 

A few nice sawlogs in that pile.

Is it southern yellow pine?
Roughly what does the chip mill pay for that stuff?

 

Just a few, pretty limbie.
I'm thinking SYP, it wasn't planted loblolly.
Last we carried to the chip mill, was $18/ton.

 

That's not hardly worth the fuel to haul it in.....wow.

Loblolly is more valuable than syp, no?

If only you could email sawlogs

 

I only have to haul it 15 miles. But too much to burn.
Loblolly ain't worth a ...for lumber. It's planted because it grows fast, mostly used for pulp. I've seen pallets made with it, breaks easy.

 

I've learned something today.... I was under the impression that loblolly was a better material than syp.
So, the attraction to loblolly is just that it's a faster growing species?

 

It must be the wood ive seen on some pallets and crates. I always marvel at the wide spaced growth rings.

 

Yep and it's soft.