What's the plan to get it on the ground? Yellow birch maybe? I have a Aspen tree hung up like yours, but I don't need any more Aspen at the moment so I think I'll let Mother Nature have that one. How's the stacks coming this year Zap?
I think that I'll take a v notch out of the top and then make a cut from the bottom up, it should drop with some back pressure. I might even put a cable on it just incase it needs some help. We'll have them filled up before August, how's your inventory doing?
I was thinking a cable would be a good idea, but saw its pretty steep where it is... I would have tried using my tractor to pull it down, but too steep to be safe. Inventory is in good shape mostly because we had such a mild winter. I have my eye on a couple maples I will get after if it ever stops raining around here. Jack Straw had posted somewhere a while back a picture of splits of black, white and yellow birch. It showed really nicely how the bark and wood differed between them. Maybe we can get him to post it again....
Did you say tractor Fanatical1 , I'm hoping that this Cherry will come down with the winch, I'll try pulling it off the Maple it landed on. The full sized picture is cropped.
We plan on getting this birch on the first nice day this weekend, if the top won't come out of the tree we'll pull it out.
We have three other Cherry trees that are down on the ground so we'll get those first, maybe next year on the one on the Maple.
The Birch job will be done tomorrow, I had to clear a dead pine tree that was down across the area we'll pull the Birch from, if it doesn't come out of the tree. I thought that this would be done last week but with the rain,snow and freezing temps at night it was still slick on that north facing hill.
For sure I'd keep off those hills right now. I remember how steep that one is in particular. Wait until they are not greasy.
You must have some pretty shallow soils over bedrock where you are? And are they usually wet? I've noticed that your posts usually have a theme of a tree that has already come down. I am on the side slope of a "mountain" here in VT and it is extremely rare for me to see a tree come down on its' own. Only in the low-lying areas where the soils are shallow and usually saturated. Not that it's a bad thing, it saves you from having to drop them, but I find that to be half the fun.
It has that wintergreen smell so I'd say Yellow Birch, I had to make a second cut so we could pull the top out of the Cherry.
