We have mushroom hunters around here that follow the season, starting in southern Indiana and following thru Michigan. I think the price of a pound of morels is around $75. I don't sell any but I enjoy hunting and love to eat them.
Update: I heard a saw and equipment yesterday and went to check it out and found a few fresh walnut treetops. I don't like to burn walnut but I would if it's all I had, I'm hoping they get some of the red oak down. There is a creek that meanders through it and what they have cut so far is on the wrong side.
Approach the fellers and ask them to drop the trees to your side of the creek, if it's realistic. They may not be able to, but no harm in asking. I had a maple taken down by the power company a number of years ago. It had a dual trunk with a crack. I was home when they were limbing it. It was on a slope with most of the limbs ending down the slope. I asked them to drop the trunk into my yard. They obliged. Always worth asking. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
. What's down so far isn't close to the creek and I haven't seen anyone yet and probably won't as heavy rain is predicted today. Funny thing is I heard the noise yesterday and was pretty sure it was coming from that property so I drove close to it on the 4 wheeler and still heard the skidder in the distance. The way sound travels thru these hills and valleys I guessed they were over on another piece of property. After lunch I heard a saw and a tree fall and a little later went to my edge of my property just in time to hear and barely see the skidder leaving.
Well it looks like they are only logging walnut. I was close to the property line while they were felling a tree yesterday and I was mesmerized by the sound of the saw. Sounded extremely bad a$$.
As I'm sitting here on Sunday morning I can hear the skidder running on the adjoining property. I walked the property last evening ( I may or may not have been mushroom hunting ) and I was disappointed to see the red oak gone. They took a huge sycamore and a hickory but for the most part they are logging walnut and a bunch of it. They took 1 walnut very close to the line and opened a path that might make it easier for me to get get into the property. I may have to quit being a wood snob and begin liking walnut as there are an overwhelming number of tops down and if I cut a path thru the fence row its in the same valley as my house and will be fairly easy to get in and out of. A lot of the hills on my property are so steep it's impossible or impractical to cut wood off of them and I'm all about about easy.
Yes, with that amount of wood available, perhaps it is time to stop being a wood snob. lol It will burn and you'll have some pretty firewood.
they were working hard today and I went back in the valley and they were up on the hill where I couldn't see them. I went into town and on the way back I decided to drive up the road that fronts the property and I turned in the driveway and as I was getting ready to back out I saw 2 guys in p/u trucks up by the house that I assumed were loggers. I drove back and sure enough one was the owner and the other guy I have known for 30 years. We small talked for awhile and I finally asked about the tops and got permission and they also said they were just starting on the oak and hickory. The guy I know said he would cut me a good road in and thru the creek.
I temporarily lost interest after the accident that I described in another thread. I can't explain why but I couldn't get myself to go on the property until last evening. The only activity I have heard over there was a few days after the accident I heard the skidder and dozer and I'm guessing they were pulling them off the site as I haven't heard anything since. In addition to the walnut tops there are red oak and hickory and enough to last me several years. True to his word they cut me a path thru the fence line to the edge of my pasture and its wide enough to drive a truck thru. I'll have to clean up the creek crossing with a grader blade and remove some poplar that is in the way. There is so much hardwood I'll be leaving the poplar . I can see dozer tracks that go almost straight up the hill sides but there is so much wood in the bottoms I wont mess with the wood on the hills. This spot is a real honey hole and I'll think of Jeff every time I go on the property.
