On my three wooded acres, black locust, black cherry and then sassafras are the most numerous trees!! Many large and straight sassafras here,...
I cut some between sixty and seventy years old all less than two feet in diameter!! So much hollows and bad spots, I bet out of the eleven loads I...
i have a lot of chipmunks and they cause wood stacks to lean some by their burrowing!!
I am seventy and just can’t take the heat and humidity much anymore!! Here in Kentucky like many areas elsewhere April has been warmer than normal...
So glad you are okay buddy!! I had a locust I cut in the woods one time that on the way down hit another tree and the top half broke out and came...
This is the way most of it is around here but locust is my most burned and a favorite!! I peel the bark too, if the sap is running it pops off...
Hickory has my vote
Some people don’t approve of noodling but how else you goes to get 20 plus inch diameter hickory rounds up in the bed of a pickup as my situation...
Here in western ky burned about the same between 3.5-4.0 cords!! But being warmer than normal winter and temperatures yo-yoing up and down we...
I do a lot of noodling!! So I am covered with dust, shaving on me and caught in the saw! I gety shop more messy from all that than the house!! I...
It is here in western Kentucky but very spotty!! I actually have some in my fencerow that I have processed! It will flat eat you up getting a...
January was in the top ten warmest January’s on record in Kentucky, december was mild too!! However, I have burned as much or more wood as a...
Locust is a favorite firewood of mine but most of the big ones and even midsize have a lot of rot/dead spots/hollows!! Good habitat for squirrels...
Second one does look like sweet gum, zooming in you can see the gum balls on ground!!
Write and played sports left handed but many other things I naturally want to do right handed, including running a chainsaw!! I am definitely a...
Yes, there is quite a bit here on my woods and around the area!! I heard it is the locust borers that start the bad places that rot!! In Europe I...
Most of the black locust around here(let’s say over 15 inch in dia.) has a lot of rot in center in different places up and down the trunk!!...
Great firewood and splits very easy with a maul!!! But locust seems to not be able to resist windstorms very well!!! I used to have a yard full...
Pin Oak, worst smelling and poorest lumber quality of the red oak family. Still good firewood but with all that sapwood needs to be out of the...
