With all the storms with wind we have been getting many of the dead standing oaks in our woods have come down. So now I need to get at it and start cutting them up and getting then off the ground and into my stacks. Started at the end of the driveway yesterday and will work my way back to the house and then off into the woods where there are many down on or near my trails . I had been watching this one for a few years but it was to close to the town road to take down. Good things come to those who wait so they say
What's better than standing dead wood? Freshly fallen dead wood. Hoard on! Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Looks like a productive day yes sir. It's nice to know you've got wood waiting for you to get it. Dead Oak is great.
This reminded me of a huge scam that was going on here in Maine after the ice storm of 1998. People were so fearful after having so many trees come down by their houses that landscapers and tree companies were making a killing on people's fears. One scam was to tell homeowners their dead larch was about to come down on their house and that for $ they would remove it. It got so bad the Maine Forest Service had to warn homeowners that Larch...while a softwood tree...loses its needles in the winter, many were not dead! I know this does not apply in this situation, but when I think of dead standing trees I always think of those days. It irks me when people take advantage of other people.
Good post, Eastern Larch, also known as Tamarack. It was on one of my first quizzes when I went to forestry School. We are talking way back, before Al Gore invented the internet. People used to look things up in...........books!
The last snow storm really wreaked havoc here. Mostly huge branches down. Course, oak is heavy so they can do quite a bit of damage when they fall on your landscaping around the yard. Got quite a bit of clean up here too. I've a bit of dead standing to get to as well.
Nice place you have there, love the dead Oak, does not take as long to dry and the heat given off is impressive.
Lots of limbs and trees still down from the windstorm in Oct. I had one hemlock break off in the middle, then lift off like it was Mary Poppins. It dropped back down just a short distance away. There were a couple other hemlocks near by that also broke off half way up. Once the snow melts, I'll go look at them and see if they were rotted in the middle.
Have a few oaks dying due to the blight. Burning a tree that has been standing dead for a few years. The bark was all off of it last year or so, it was close to a barn, finally cut it down this fall expecting it to be hollow or rotten in the middle. It was, SOLID. What I have split has burnt well.
I had a dead oak limb the other day and it was like party time for me... but you sir are truly blessed, by the way my wife thinks youre property looks verrry nice! so do i.
Bare and frozen so winching the trees out to the driveway or the trails is easy and clean (no mud). Jane has plans for the weekend so I hope to get a lot cut up and in the stacks.
