At least I got it cut early when it was still about 85F not during the 100F heat that day. I also cheated and had it loaded with a loader
I wonder if you take Nyquil during the day, does it still work? Conversely, if you take Dayquil at night.............? These are the burning questions I have at the moment. Now I'm going to bed. W/o any of the quils.
All some sort of red oak. All were left over from logging. One nasty knotted one is southern red I think. There is one that was cut dead standing I am not sure what type of red oak it is. Those small ones were the worst splitting. Those twisted branches I guess?
Sure was. I kind of have inside information and access to timber harvest areas and can get leftovers/waste. I am a forester that oversees logging operations on over 200,000 acres.
I would say that's more than a little load of wood.... Nice looking oak and all good sizes to handle. I could see where a splitter would come in handy for a few of those rounds. How much do you think you got there? Just shy of a cord?
I'm curious about state or national logging programs. Do they select cut desirable trees for their value or do they take everything and clear cut areas? I've seen both done in Ohio. The private loggers around us are looking for large maple, white oak, cherry and Walnut mainly. Not much interest in tulip or red oak or really anything else, but I think they can be pretty selective since we live in a heavily wooded section of Ohio, the size of some of the walnut trees I see on the logging trucks are huge. There's a logger not far from us that puts the whole walnut logs in containers and ships them overseas.
We even have pine logs or cant loaded to send to china here. Some load logs directly into containers on site. Not around here have I seen that though. As to state/federal land it depends on the management plan. Some state agencies are more money driven than anything. Never been with the USFS but have several buddies that have or do work with them. They have a method to their madness. They dont make anything by the time you figure in road costs (they have super high specks on those roads they build that cost lots and wood is traded out for roads if there installing new ones. Its called in-kind) and labor. But they go by management plans that is basically decided by age of stand..sometimes historical forest data, like if they want to restore a species or the density is at some trigger point to either thin or clear cut. There is actually way more in it than most would think. But no its never go to an area to rape it and get the money and run...may look that way but its not.
