huskihl I just read this on Arborist site: Both American Elm and Slippery Elm are consistent in color from outside to core. THERE IS NO CHANGE...
I find this oddly appealing.
Might you be thinking of Siberian elm? That stuff has a few rings of white sap wood and is mostly dark red heart wood. I have heard people call...
Could be, but it smells like cinnamon almonds. I can tell them apart when alive by looking at and feeling the leaves. When dead with half or...
My other photos didn't show the weirdness very well, so let's try this. This is what the trunk looks like about 15 feet up. [ATTACH]
These things lean and twist in any direction in search of sunlight. I just cut this red elm with a "U" shaped trunk. It's not just buttress roots...
No small oak species here. They all get huge if they get the chance. [ATTACH]
Well in that case, everything I said does not apply. That's one beast of a machine! I was talking about the consumer model gas splitters, like...
About 5 years ago a tree service dropped me off a huge cottonwood with a dead raccoon included. By the amount of poop in the hollowed out trunk,...
That's how this one was. The sapwood on the upper half is white and decomposed. I can scratch it off with a fingernail. But the heartwood is...
You can have them if you come to Michigan and help cut! :thumbs:
I've got about a dozen medium size standing dead red oaks that need to come down. They are all within about 50 yards of my barn. They got sick...
I love this. Some people dream of a house on the beach. You dream of straight trees. May your straight trees not be the conifer variety, since...
I used to have a 9 to 5 (or more like 9 to 9) office job, which can put a real damper on the firewood hoarding. I'm too young to retire, but I'm...
Oh hell yeah! One of the very best firewoods, but oh so heavy when recently cut. Great firewood in every way, and that's a big one for sure....
Good for you. I always snicker when guys call themselves arborists and all they do it tree removal. Don't get me wrong -- tree removal requires...
I don't know if you have also used stand alone splitters with small gas engines, but my experience is that having a tractor or skid steer...
You use your Dolmars for professional tree service work? The guys I know who cut trees for a living say the 7900 is a great saw, but they'd...
That big oak going down. I had to fell it against the lean with about 10 wedges and a sledge hammer. Once it started cracking I had time to run...
Barcroftb I keep photos from when they were new as part of the family photo album. These were my first two "real" chainsaws. Having saws that...
