Free Clean Fire Wood Free Clean Fire Wood Free fire wood located at our back entrance to New England Outdoor. Can also delivery entire dumpster to your house for $50.
I did that with pallet blocks at the last house. I had a nice cube in the basement. A dumpster like that I could store in the barn. That is a lot of work to move all the pieces.
I don’t have any direct Red Pine management experience, but my wife’s company avoids partial stand removal during warm weather due to a fungus that can enter the stump and spread throughout the stand. Treating the stump with borax or cutting in winter are options.
Back when the world was young and so was I, I rented a tiny house from a friend. It was heated by a small radiant gas heater. I worked at a roof truss and wall panel factory so I could get all the Doug Fir 2x4 and 2x6 end cuts that I wanted for free. I removed the gas heater and put in a medium sized Everett Stove Works pot belly stove right where the heater had been. For the couple years that I lived there that was all I heated with. The stove would only keep fire for about 3 and a half hours before a reload but served me well and left good memories!
I took on the large hemlock that was hung up in the apple tree. The hinge was about 8' up. I cut underneath and watched the hinge move. I used a still attached branch and leveraged it down to the ground. A few cuts and that was it for the evening. Lots of dead branches. The apple tree had a cracked limb where the hemlock fell into it, so that came down too. Butt end down. It has a bit of rot a few feet up, so that part will go into the woods. Probably tomorrow I will cut the smaller limbs and stack. This area will clean up nicely.
I hauled the splitter to the last section of hemlock. I bucked up the last of it and went vertical for the larger rounds. Maybe 45 minutes and all the big stuff is done. It had carpenter ants in the core, so I'll let that pile set for a few days and move them to the racks. It is not really a lot but it all adds up. The splitter worked well. Such a time saver. I watched 3 groups of turkey cross to the neighbors as they overnight up in the woods across the way. All 3 groups stopped traffic. The little ones vary in size, with the biggest ones the size of chickens. Gnarly hemlock.
Looking good Jon - how’s the land treating you? Lots of work having property- remember buying my place 13 years ago and cutting everything dead leaning and marginal wanting to keep all the healthy trees... Now I just want anything near the house cut down ( within reason) and have wood stacks way bigger than I could have imagined back when I started.
It is very good. We are enjoying the wildlife here. There is always something to watch. The mosquitoes are busy, but deerflies are really aggressive when we go into the woods area. There are a lot of invasive vines pulling trees down. This fall, I'll really get into them and cut all the bittersweet and grapes out. Lots of downed trees to process. There are cords of wood down. I'm just short on time. All is well though.
Jon, so far the deer flies are not too bad this year but they can be nasty for sure. And yes, it is wonderful to see the wildlife. How about this weird guy?
Sad but so far I've not gotten another picture of him but I don't have all the cameras out either. Maybe that's something I could get done during this hot spell.
Quick update. I set up another rack with t post before the rain set in. The skies really opened up, but I got everything split on the rack. I took the weed whacker out and cleaned around the piles and uncovered the pile of rounds. The next not hot day I'll take care of this. I have lumber for another rack to extend the back one. I keep thinking about a woodshed here. Something simple would look nice here and it is convenient to the house.
