Can't win for loosing. Still have a few cords at the house to work up and now yesterday got these pictures from a prior honey locust score. And now have bur oak to pickup once I'm back in town tomorrow. For some reason can't upload but will try in a few.
Body sure hates the heat. Honey locust needs drug from her backyard to boot. May take a look at it tomorrow evening or Sunday.
Todays cut was another FBM find. Checked it out last week. 9-12 month old red maple and white oak. Maple had bark starting to loosen and looked like there was more of it than there actually was in the pile. Easy park, cut and load. Honestly wish I didn't take it but had committed already. WO sapwood starting to punk with some fungi growing. Loosely tossed load on the PU. Smalls & Goldilocks sized mostly. Not quite a half cord. Green & clean my usual MO, but have a couple customers wanting more dead/semi-seasoned wood. No pics, but here's the link on FBM. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EyZifzNwd/ Next cut back at a new construction site I cut at in April. Hopefully this week.
No wooding here today. Still wet and dreary with lingering light rain. I have the load from Sunday on the truck to be split tomorrow. Have a couple half cords to go out ASAP plus a bundle order to assemble and get out.
I’m not even trying to get wood, plentiful now with recent storms. Today I cut for a lady that had storm damage, large load of sugar maple for my efforts. I plan to visit family tomorrow, otherwise I may sniff around.
Sundays load was processed off the truck today. A couple days of rain and didn't need the truck for the work I was doing so I waited. Started a fresh stack for the white oak. Maybe 20% of a cord. Amazes me how fast stuff starts growing on oak sapwood in the humid weather. 2-3 wheelbarrows full of nuggets/shorts. The rest was red maple with bark falling off. I started splitting a load from May 9. Sugar maple and hickory. Been getting good sun at the woodyard. Pic from that day.Split about 2/3 of the stack and hydro ran out of gas. I had filled tank up earlier. I stacked the hickory and called it a day. 1/4 cord of the maple splits came home with me as I have three half cord racks to fill. A lot of the maple was loosing the bark as I was splitting. It'll dry a lot faster. Hopefully will split the rest in the next 2-3 days. Have a small limb clean upon job tomorrow.
Small red oak limb clean up job yesterday. 8-9" at the break. Been down for a couple months. I couldve tossed it into the guys back woods but kept it. Luckily the brush went into the woods. Split what rounds needed it and added it to the oak stack afterward. I have a partial stack of red oak from April that I'll add to it that should be close to a half cord. New cut tomorrow, stay tuned.
Todays cut was at a prior new construction site I cut at back in early April and early May. It was an open lot at the time and now a house is there. Spars had been taken down and left for me as he texted me a couple weeks ago. Easy back in, cut and load. Cut a typical Brad load. Norway was halved and oak quartered for the most part. 60% Norway and 40% red oak. Cut the bigger logs that were closest. 20" bar on the 361 & 400. Thinking the oiler is messed up on the 400. Need a longer bar for the biggest oak logs and the rest is Goldilocks sized oak and Norway maple 6-12" in diameter. More than likely split it off the truck tomorrow. A lot dryer today compared to yesterday, but still a bit rough in the sun. At least one more load in front plus the log deck of mostly cottonwood up in back which I'll nibble away at. Pic of the cut from April. I was parked next to the chip pile today. You can see one of the NM spars marked for removal.Today's load makes for 15 I've gotten from the same source (three different locations) and they told me they have three more houses going up nearby so it looks like I'll be busy View from the log deck in back. Notice foundation is in.
No way I am cutting in this weather here. I had a big limb break off a magnolia and come down on one of my stacks. I went out for about 45 minutes and cleaned that up. I was as wet as if I had been in the pool.
