Cruised around yesterday afternoon checking out the neighborhood I have been cutting in since the July Storm. Stopped at a house with a huge pine log I had been eyeing. Sucker is +40" at the butt and about 14' long. Turns out the house is owned by a little old Finn lady and her somewhat disabled husband. She does traditional wood carving and the pine log is already allocated. She'd been trying to get her grown kids to come up from the city to buck the log into useable pieces. I said I'd be happy to do it for her, she just needed to do the layout lines; I'd be right back with the saw. Guess she figured she never would see me again 'cause when I returned she hadn't done any measuring. I brought my new 576 and the 24" bar just barely made the first cut working from both sides. I imagine her kids were blowing her off because they didn't have the needed tools!! I had her show me the cuts, bucked the log up, then used my gin pole set up on my truck to get the rounds up on her carving stands. Should keep her busy for a while. Didn't figure i'd get anything out of this one but a little karma never hurts. Got to talking and she mentioned they own 80 acres across the road and I was welcome to come take standing dead if I wanted too! Not really accessible to a fullsize truck, guess it is a reason to go buy a quad. Not sure what the available spieces are. Natural growth is birch, pine, aspen. Area was replanted in '48-'49 with lots of hard wood. Might just get lucky and find some good stuff. Best part is the site is locate <5 miles from my house!
Hang around with good people, and good things happen. Way to go Red. PD's right... 80 acres is a lot of scoutin' area and sure to yield plenty of dead standing trees. They'd prolly appreciate a report as to the condition of it all. As you get to know these folks, maybe you could even get a simple agreement on paper so everyone knows exactly what you talked about taking for wood. (Thinking their "kids" might have something to say about it too) Good luck. Sounds like a great wood lot possibility for you.
Awesome job, and awesome score! I cleaned up my next door neighbor's yard this year after a spring t-storm took out a whole mess of trees. I was happy to do it just for the firewood. Got it all cleaned up and left them about a cord or so. They told me I was welcome to do any cleanup of down trees in their woods. They own the 30 acres of woods adjacent to my 14. That's where I sourced all the BL in my recent post. Guess the moral of the story is, it pays to be a good neighbor!
