Tree guy left these out on the gravel driveway. Had to cut them to move them. You can see the pile in back, should be good in a couple years.
Aluminum grain scoop/wheelbarrow or cart behind garden tractor make short work of it,dump it someplace out of sight or use it for mulch/filling in low spots elsewhere. From just 2 big dumps from my tree service contact in Dec 2013/Feb 2014 I ended up with just over one half pickup bed worth of chips/shavings/noodles from processing all that White Oak/Red Oak/Silver Maple.Roughly 80% I took over to sister,remainder I scattered on the paths around processing area/wood stacks.Keeps weeds down (nothing else grows back there in that river rock/dirt + its too shady) and its comfy on your feet year round.
You've got a horse trailer.........................if'n you have horses, use the spoils for bedding!!
yup just as long as you don't have any Black Walnut shavings/chips/sawdust its fine.Walnut has a natural chemical called juglone which is not good for horses.Plus its a growth stunter/toxic to certain plants.
According to my wife, only dried pine shavings are acceptable for that. The farmer who takes our manure won't mind it so I'll have some quality time with a rake / muck fork and tractor loader. I already took down the two black walnuts we had last year.
No it's a guy outside of Middletown. He built up a small inventory of logs sometime this fall and he wanted them gone. So although they are large and funny shapes and not always the perfect species, I bought them all.
That's a good looking bunch of BTU'$ right there! Now just need to How did you settle on a price for the logs? ~Nathan
He had them all spread out behind his shop. The next day I got out my tape measure, measured most of them and quickly calculated the cordage using Excel. I calc'd about 8 cords from those, and got lazy enough from there to just throw a cash offer for the lot. I paid just under $50/cord, which was still risky considering all I had at the time was my MS261 with an 18" bar and had never processed firewood before.
That's a good deal all around. I got into to some big stuff with my 251 and ended up with the 461 shortly after. That 372 will be great in that big stuff.
I'm hopeful it works out to be a good deal. I won't know until I see how many chains I consume, how many hours go into it, and how many cords it yields. If my spreadsheet was wrong it might not be a deal after all.
