Sugary breakfast

Time to replenish the the reserves with some sugar maple I’m getting 3 of them

 

Well that's a fancy place to be cutting.

 

Them trunks are gonna fight at the splitter.

 

Wonder how many eyes are watching you behind the mirror glass.

 

Why are the trees coming down?

 

Nice hidden location....keep it a secret

 

Making em moist

 

That piece of the bottom floor is going to be a childcare center. The playground is going to be where the trees were.

 

It was originally the RJR tobacco world headquarters.

 

I wouldn't volunteer to split them by hand.

 

Nice and I love the work location

 

No protestors?…..Honestly, I'm a little disappointed

 

That will be some good wood. Was that in Winston-Salem?

 

You can check your form with those reflective windows!

 

Yes Sir

 

Somehow missed this thread. Good stuff there. Those trunks can get very gnarly but some good btus. I end up noodling the gnarly rounds to get prettier "splits".
Not all that common down there IIRC?

 

It’s gotten too warm for them, so medium age and older landscape trees usually have die back. Occasionally I see big healthy ones in a big lawn. I’ve gotten some big ones and swore off taking any more because the trunks were a pia to split. These 3 had a bunch of straight mostly knot free limbs that I couldn’t pass up. It will make a good mix for my oak hoard.
There’s a historic road in my city lined with Sugar Maple’s and it’s probably been 30 years since they had great fall color. Back in the day it was a vivid orange and yellow tunnel in the fall.

 

I got a little cutting to do

 

3” cylinder vs 20” elm

 

= in the bank