During our April GTG one Scotty Overkill knocked down a couple oaks. Today I cut up the remainder of the red oak and hauled it out. Yes, it was a bit muddy yet for hauling out but we got it done with small loads. But believe me, when you already had a hurting back, those red oaks are heavy, heavy, heavy.
I don't know how you muscled those rounds up on the trailer. My knees won't allow for much over 30 lbs.
Nice work! I haven't touch any oak in a few months, been working with dry red maple lately. I just split and stacked about a half cord of red and white oak this afternoon, forgot just how heavy even an oak split is!
I can smell em from here! I love the smell of fresh cut red oak in the hot, muggy, summer sun. Overpowering, strong, musty are just a few terms that come to mind when I think about it. I wish they made red oak cologne!
Sniffed it all last night! Had 4 of them come down and ended up going to work to fix the mess. Only sad part was leaving it behind
Your vomit smells like that? I'm envious! No but seriously, oak is definitely one of those smells you either love or hate. I personally love it, white oak is my favorite, however. Always reminds me of Johnny walker. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
White oak isn't bad. Red oak I could smell from the street and it's in the far back corner of a half acre lot.
Could you haul your splitter there? It makes for two trips, but loading those rounds must have been tough.
I had considered taking the splitter back in there but the big mud hole discouraged me on that one. Loading those really is not that bad especially with the trailer setting so low to the ground. I'm working now and then on filling sand into that mud hole and moved more sand in there today but it will take lots more time to get it all filled in. I'm hoping I can get it filled in enough by the time I get the white oak cut up though as that is a larger tree so would be nice to get it split so as not to have to lift the heavy stuff. The other option is to just roll the rounds into the FEL on the tractor and haul them out that way but again, that mud hole...
