...at least in my humble opinion! Took advantage of mid-40 temps today to get some wood related tasks completed. First up was getting locust logs to a local mill I've used previously. I had my tree guy drop two 30"+ diameter black locust trees in early January. I was able to set aside four 9' logs to be milled into boards to replace existing raised garden beds that I originally made from pine purchased from the local box store lumber yard. Going on 5 years this year and the pine boards are showing plenty of rot. Figured the locust would be the best route for rot/bug resistance as well as no chemicals to leach into the soil. First photo is when I moved them from the yard to my "landing deck"! Second photo is after getting them loaded on the trailer this morning and ready to head to the mill.
After returning from dropping off the logs at the mill and running a few other errands, I ate lunch and decided that since the trailer was already hooked up, good time to make a wood run. I believe this is ash, but can someone verify? My trailer is 16x7 and I cut with my Husky 372xp fitted with 28" bar/chain until the chain needed sharpened. I could of fit a little more on the trailer but I was starting to tire and decided to call it quits. All in all - not a bad day to spend a spring-like Saturday!
I'm by far no expert, but I'm thinking that looks more like maple than ash. Either way, good haul! How do you load the big rounds? Where in Ohio are you?
Not positive and cannot tell for sure by your last picture but if that is showing a pink hue I would say yes you have ash.
Looks like a nice busy day! How much is it gonna set ya back getting that locust milled? (if ya don't mind me askin) And that does look like a type of ash to me. Not sure exactly though.
I was lucky enough that I was able to back the trailer right next to the downed tree. The big rounds I rolled to the back edge of the trailer, laid them against the back edge of the trailer and then grabbed the bottom of the round and pushed them up. Once on the trailer, I flipped them and rolled to where I needed. A lot of work but not too bad. I'm outside of the Mansfield area.
I'll have to get back to you on the price for milling. A lot depends upon how much metal he finds/removes prior to sawing. The boards should be ready for pickup in three weeks or so.
Some serious BTUs there! Great set up Positive the second load is ash ? Bark seems a bit off , but hard to tell.
Tang, I like that you are a well organized and neat wood worker. I like your work pictures. Nice looking wood!
Great pics there ! Looks like a very good day . I see all us Ohio guys got out yesterday !!!! 40 degrees seemed like 70 !!!
Thanks Oslo. I've learned a lot over the last 3 years as to what works for me and what doesn't. I'm still struggling to find the best method for stacking and holding my splits as my staging area is not flat and level. Always having to contend with leaning and at least once or twice a year re-stacking a row that falls over.
I have the same problem on level land with stacking. If I go over 5 ft high in a row I find the dried out splits sort of adjust in time and force the row to lean one way or the other.
Here is what we do. 1. Cut wood in winter and just sort of stack it but never very careful. We just try to get it in some type of a row. After snow melt, we than split it. Once split, then we lay down a couple of saplings and stack on them. This is all that is left of the above pictures. It was all split and stacked in April, 2009. We'll finish this off next year. Also notice that not much sunshine got to this wood. It is fine.
