Saw an ad on FB. Couple piles of logs and some trunks scattered around. One maple, one I can’t id yet. Too much water in between me and the trunk. And I suck at id anyway. A good distance from home, 45 minute drive, wasn’t that interested but I blew up the pic of the piled logs. Oh baby there’s little sprouts growing out of the bark. Dead and gone in these pics. Seeing as I consider this wood gathering a hobby there’s no reason I can’t drive a distance. First trailer full of Black Gold. Heading back tomorrow for another. Roughly 20’ sticks. I even left one a little long for mommas new washline pole.
I’ve been burned by procrastination before. Besides I spent my Mason career staying relatively dry and commenting that other trades could work in the rain while masons can’t (we do shhhh) Time to put my money where my mouth is Just wish I had bought some waterproof clothing somewhere along the line LOL. Never needed it before Still wearing moccasins with no socks Gotta be 12”+ of snow to pull out the old boots.
I'm always intrigued by the posting of these free wood finds. A lot of times it makes me look for stuff around here just for kicks. All it gets me is a laugh at what people want for wood. No free stuff around here except garbage or brush piles advertised as firewood. Fortunately I have access to all the wood I want on several farms.
Time of year seems to play a role. Spring and summer you can find free wood. Fall and winter they put a price on things. This one was an outlier. Landlord needed it gone.
How much is left? Second trip in order? Me..work boots year round. No raingear. Ill suck it up from April to October if i get a little rained on. Getting drenched in the cool/cold weather not fun. Maybe you could get some FHC slickers from the swag shoppe?
Went back for another load. Pretty much all the Black locust there,,,,pretty much. Saw one nice big BL log laying on the far side of some Chinese pick em up sticks. A conflagration of nice big logs of unknown species. From the pics on Facebook it looked like just one big tree pushed up on top of a bunch of treetops. Today the water had receded enough I was able to skirt the deep stuff and walk back there. More logs underneath haphazardly pushed into a bunch (Chinese pick em up sticks) Ok can anyone identify these pics? Thought at first it was Tree of Heaven. Brad says no. I have him on speed dial as Mr tree ID. There was a very similar log in the locust pile. Think it’s some kind of smooth skin hickory. No colored center like hickory usually has tho. Was very hard with no growth rings that stood out. 75 degrees and sun I was too beat to do much investigating. And while we’re at it. Some type of maple I believe. Anyone care to guess which type?
Mystree tree looks like sugar maple. The wood grain and color where the bark is missing a good indicator too. Last pics not sure. Kinda looks red oakish to me. You going for third load?
Yeah I realize the pics aren’t great. I nipped a small piece off the “maple” log. It does look like red oak but a fresh cut dispelled that. Sure looked mapley to me I was just too bushed to do the due diligence required for proper ID. Sorry folks. I’ll know more tomorrow.
Could be another sugar maple. I zoomed on the pic and a tad blurry. If it is you done real good. Those are sweet when you can find em that straight. Makes for great chow for your splitter. Dries a LOT faster than oak too.
Not sure which pic we are talking about for sure, but I don't see anything there that makes me think BE...its all too straight for one thing!
Even the small stuff (4-5”) I’ve gotten has a darker core. Another vote for sugar maple on that other log. That other mystree log in the back though… I dunno. Need close up pictures but the stringy cambium under the bark has me thinking something low BTU.
