I helped Secretasianman on a tree job this weekend - dropped 4 good sized white pine that were right against a shed. He dropped the trees and I did most of the bucking - then we started hauling the rounds to the trailer. Most of the rounds are still there - will have to wait till things dry out to get the rest out (started to mess up the homeowners back yard as the Sun thawed the path). Most of the rounds are coming to my stacks - he will probably keep some too. I'm guessing an easy 2 cord, but probably more. The trunks were nice and straight and clear grained. About 2 inches of frozen sapwood made it seem like I was bucking concrete with my 61 running 3/8 - it was interesting - switched to my dolly running .325 and it was like the frozen sapwood wasn't even there. Good time all in all! Click on the pic for a better view. Cheers!
Good lookin' stuff there.Around here I rarely see pine more than once a year,but grab all I can if possible.
Yes - should be nice to split versus a lot of the pine I get - very few knots - split up one big round just to see and not too bad, but most will be done with the splitter. I take it all too - most folks don't want pine around here - so I get a fair share. Cheers!
Nice pile of branches too. Most of the pine on my lot grew in an open field, are loaded with huge side branches. Some with 3, 4, 5 tops starting almost at the base. Makes for some interesting felling and ragged splits. Nice big straight grained must be nice.
Ha - sounds like a lot of the pine I've had in the past too! These were nearly branch-less (except for some very small dead branches) for the first 30-40', with fairly few branches even above that - as papadave would say, it was gooder! Cheers!
I`ve got a few pines that I`ll be cutting soon as well. I`ve never actually cut pine before. Does it cut pretty easy and throw big chips?
Like buttah. I've never gooed up a saw with sap but I've had to throw some gloves away. I've had some splits go flying though in the splitter so watch your head and any people standing too close nearby.
Pine? If you burn that stuff you gonna have a chimney fire and burn you house to da ground, you wife will leave you and you kids will disown you and you dog will bite you!! What wrong wit you boy?!?
Nice NH_Wood. I'll bet you didn't even find much sap from that. I've never had to clean a saw after cutting pine but some do.
The sap was frozen solid, so saw stayed pretty clean. Once bucked, the Sun started to thaw the face of the rounds and the sap started to soften up and run a bit. It cut real easy after getting past the frozen sapwood and was throwing some nice chips. Cheers!
Agreed - I burned about a 1/2 cord in October and November, and I have about a 1/4 cord for end of this burn season. Perfect for quick hot fires, especially when the draft is a little sluggish. Cheers!
