The storm last night took out these red oaks (~18-20" DBH). The roots and most of the trunks are on my property. The tops are on my neighbor's. He'll let me drive right up with my pickup and splitter. I'll give him 1/2 the rounds. Easy money...!
Those are the best. Mine always seem to end up in a ravine or steep hill side. I have a few I need to work on soon. Just so you know, you didn't really cut them up unless you provide pic proof.
Actually, I'm going to leave them there for a while since they are nice and up off the ground and I have about 1-1.5 cord of rounds already waiting to be S/S.
Actually, if I didn't already have over 3 MBF of lumber here already, I'd be milling and drying the trunks as lumber. Also, you can see the branches with the shed bark in the middle of the picture. The tree on the left certainly succumbed to whatever is killing our chestnut oaks. I have several dozen more dead standing on my property. I just need a month off of work and a skidder to fall, C/S/S it all.
Said neighbor is an awesome dude. He's getting way up there in years so he has to depend on his sons to C/S/S the wood for the smoke dragon in his shop. This will go along way to help.
Wife and I worked on reloading the wood crib by the house. It was essentially empty yesterday. Now it's got 1.5 cord. The whole back row is ash and the front row is mixed bag of black birch, cherry, and red maple. This should get us through the rest of the burning season (?), but more importantly, it opened up space in the processing/stacking area to start to bring down the oak from my original post.
Here you go. I have to say it is not really finished and it is far from perfect; but, I've tried to keep it as cheap and easy as possible and use whatever I had left around. I still need to figure out a better footer than a cinder block. Also, the roof is a little too short/wide, so snow and rain can blow under it too easily. Altogether though, it's been working pretty dang well this year.
I split and stacked ~3/4 cord of red oak today, in order to make room in the processing area for the two trees from my original post. I've got about 1/2 cord of oak, red maple and black gum rounds left to go before I go after the two big 'uns.
DANG!!! One of the "oaks" from my OP is a dead tulip poplar. I finally got out to take a close look a the damage and found out that what happened was a big, dead tulip tipped over and took out a perfectly healthy red oak. Oh well, can't do anything now but clean up the mess. I'll still get close to a cord out of each tree and the tulip will be ready by next fall.
Actually, looking at the bark on the oak, it looks like there are some pale areas, indicative of whatever has been killing the rest of my oaks. I may just have to do a timber sale on my oaks and get back to healthier species.
