Most people around here that are serious about heating their homes with wood will go for some lodge pole pine. You can only get it in the mountains.
Well made my second trip to the Mountains. I went to an area that I had cut before and a lot of the bigger trees were already gone but there was some smaller ones all in one spot so that is was I did. I cut down 9 trees on this trip compared to only 4 trees my last trip. That means twice as much limbing and twice as much bucking. But it still went pretty fast. Just some of the stumps in the area where I went cutting. Here the trailer loaded and ready to go. I got there at 11:00 and finished at 4:00. Unloaded and stacked. The wood hoard is starting to grow.
Yep there are stumps all over the place from firewood cutters and some clear cutting along the road for fire breaks. I have not seen anybody flush cut the stumps close to the ground. The National Forest does not want people driving all over the place and leaving stumps is a good deterrent.
From the firewood guide lines that they gave there is nothing in there about cutting stumps to the ground. They just do not want any sharp angles left on the stumps. The National Forest people will take old limbs, logs, and pile up dirt on trails where they do not want any kind of motor vehicle in there. People will ride those ATV's every where even though it is posted that they are not allowed. So you can cut the stumps flush if you want I choose not to. So you about ready to fire up that 660 and head for the woods.
So here is a pic of my third trip. I have one more to go. This should give me plenty of wood for testing saws in and for splitting come winter.
Missed second half of this thread, your gettin a good stock pile goin now man :stacke::stacke::stacke:
Yep it is coming along. I also still have one more Elm to cut down on a farm out here too. For a place that does not have many trees things seem to always work out. I was looking at a BTU chart and they have Lodge Pole pine listed as having the same BTU's as Elm and Ash. Not bad stuff.
It's funny how technically trees with needles are considered soft wood trees, with leaves, are considered Hardwood, Monterey it ain't firewood hoarders either
Well I made my last trip to the mountains. I only took down 2 more trees. I did a lot of driving around this time so I could find some new cutting areas. I got my 2 cord of pine so I am good.
Says I to myself...thats a lot more than two cord. Then the memory says to I....those aren't eight foot lengths. Nice stack of wood there, Mag Craft !
The stacks are 12 ft long 4 1/2 ft tall and 46" wide. It might be a little more than 2 cord maybe by a half. When I cut and stack then I will know for sure. I have to lift those that is why they are short.
