Another day at the beech

Hour and a half of pure enjoyment time at the beech. Tiny bit of maple and ash also. Biggest blocks roughly 30 inches. Splitter party once it dries up and I finish the log pile Roughly 6 times more than this in logs I need to block weather permitting and honey do permitting

 

I love beech. I wish there was more of it around here.

 

Nice beech ash and Excavtor

 

sick set up

 

I love to cut wood, so mr bank and I work together to finance my addiction!!! Raining hard today, so I sit and watch out the window.

 

Mmmm beech. Nice work, that reminds me I need to knock that 1 big dead beech down at my land.

 

What did it die from? beech bark disease?

 

I think so.

All of the beech I've been burning has suffered from the same thing. There's plenty of healthy beech trees in that Grove, though.

 

I don't know what a beech tree looks like other than having smooth bark; don't know what it burns like other than desirable; haven't seen any infestation results of the bark disease or even if it can be prevented.

 

I don't think I've ever seen a Beech tree first hand. None of that species any where that I have lived.

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Beech is great, as is your setup! I could go for some more beech, hardly ever get it around here as most of my wood comes from tree services and although it's common in the woods, it's almost never a yard tree around here.

 

It's a tree that really only does well after a forest is really mature. From what I remember.

 

Burns great, cuts well. Splits hard sometimes. Good BTU’s

 

I still have 5-6 cords of it sitting on the ground from last year, couldn't get to it before winter set in. It's part of my 2018-19 firewood as long as I can get it blocked, split and stacked before summertime. There is a lot of beech in my woods, and the red oak just got thinned out heavily so the beech can develop. Some foresters cull beech heavily due to its' spreading habit and root propagation. I can show areas where there is one big beech tree and dozens of little ones all around it, and I bet they are connected physically by roots.

 

I wish it was a little less stringy when splitting with hydraulics. Having a hatchet is essential to keep these moving along. Because of its smooth bark, many people carve into these trees. One tree on my woodlot has some unsavory things carved into it by trespassers. I will be dropping it this spring. Probably 40" DBH.

 

Yup. Drove through a few stands of beech back in the late 90's between Marquette and "Happy Rock" but didn't pay attention to them other than grabbing a few leaves for one of the kids leaf project.....

 

We have a single large healthy Beech tree in the yard...