Finished up a big black oak removal the other day. Turned out to be a firewood tree, it had metal in it...... This will be about the last of what I keep for the house stash. I processed the stump from this black oak and it have me 46 splits! It was a hammer! The rest of the trunk I've already split into quarters and have stacked next to the Super Split and I'll process them as time allows in the evenings going into the fall. We also started a holz hausen with the ash I processed for the pizza oven......I'll make a post about that later when we advance it a little further. I'm paying my two young nephews to help me, trying to get those lil fellers into the wood scene! The oak had a huge top in it, overhanging a nice cherry tree the homeowner wanted to keep. I couldn't go any higher as that top was compromised with ant damage....so I send the top from the 65' mark... This was the big poplar we.removed as well. This all went to a buddy who has an OWB. All told we.removed around 14 trees at this.site, moved the woodline back quite a bit to ensure the HO he wouldn't have any future issues with the trees on his house or shed.
Quite a bit of work there. That's a sweet oak if I may say so myself. What do you normally do with the wood if you or friends don't take it? There a black oak that's let go in a storm across our driveway and is hung up. The landlord wont hire anyone and I'm not touching it...yet. Fungi have sprouted and I'm expecting it to let go anyway now.
Weirdest thing I've found in a decades old rotted oak crotch 65 or so feet up was earthworms. Also in another oak tree old broken crotch the most awful smelling white "cheese".
I have a whole gaggle of people who will take any wood that I don't want. If Mikey, Joe or I don't want it, it goes to whoever needs it. I have several close friends that'll take the "lesser" stuff for their OWB's as well.
I had a very close call years ago in a huge red oak where I was tied off above a crotch about 50 foot high, both leads were around 20-25" diameter. I had made the face cut in the lead I was tied off in (which was leaning) and was about to make the back cut when I told myself 'I better tie off in the other lead and get myself out of the line-of-fire just in case.......' Well thank God I did because almost as soon as I put the saw into the back cut that top barber chaired and surely would've decapitated me. In the center of that lead was a wormhole and that flaw caused the tree to unzip. That incident led me to learn and perfect bore cuts in situations like that where you take larger, heavy leaning tops at heights in some species of trees....what a scary lesson.
Nice work! That’s a big job, and I’ll bet you appreciated the loader doing a lot of the lifting for you
The little pile here is just the stump. It was a big, heavy unit for sure. Got a little bit of that tree split and stacked last evening. Was out there working til dark....
Just as long as you guys don't start wasting away from not lifting those big rounds Nice to see some old iron resurrected
