Last of the trees ive been meaning to fell at GF's mothers for several years. Maybe 20' from the beech i felled Sunday. Same tree i was asking about a bark/punk removal. The top of this 30" plus diameter oak was snapped off in a storm in either 2011 or 2012. Took out her utilities. If you look carefully in the first pic you can see three wires running parallel in the upper left of the pic. I had cut up the wood then. Never had a saw big enough to take down the spar (new term i learned from Woodwhore yesterday, thank you sir ). Used the 36" bar on the 460. I had a little trouble felling it late Yesterday. Notched and back cut okay, pounded wood wedges in and had to use steel wedge to get it over. No top weight to get it going. 15-20' tall. Pics from today Still some good red meat for the taking. All the sapwood was punk and into the heartwood a bit, but solid inside. I shaved off some of the punk while splitting. Some type of maggots near the stump rounds. Termite larvae? Blurry pic of mostly punk splits ill put aside for firepit wood come Summer...only six months to go! My cheesy machete i tried to scrape punk off. Casualties of hoarding. My medium size axe i use near the firepit/kindling. Grabbed it to remove punk and forgot while splitting. It was on its way out anyhow. Dunno if ill rehandle or ask Santa for a Fiskars X25. Punk chunks that were light as styrofoam! Not quite a facecord based on my guesstimation. The top snapped off part was a bit too bad for saving. Wood was heavy and saturated for the most part. I can back the PU into woods to load as it was 10' off her driveway. I have another spar in my woods 50 yards in. Bigger than this one. Top broke off two years ago. Have to fell it uphill though. Maybe a project for later this Winter???
All the little beech trees that have sprouted made it a little more difficult. Knocked my hat off more than once. The top of the tree now missing allowed sunlight to reach the forest floor and saplings galore. How the woods regenerates itself. A grove of beeches (is that the plural of beech?) in the area.
Nice work, buddy. No those are just little worms, in the soft gooey part. That firepit wood you have is alot like what we put in the cull pile. We burn it. I usually bring wood in the house in 5 gal buckets. That catches most of the bark or anything else on the wood. Great looking splits..
Spar, never heard that one either. Nice wood in there Brad. Super wet, super red, super heavy. Makes nice fire when dry. Makes good target practice trying to split the punk off LOL. Although you should be deadly accurate by now anyway considering how much swinging you do. On the plus side no hang ups. Thought about your post the other day. Was felling white oaks for the bridge beams. Got a little too cute and decided I’d cut in some bearing flats integral with the felling cuts. Easier while the tree is standing and no dirt. Only problem is the flats werent in line with the direction of fall. Thought a little mind control would work. Didn’t. Hung up the first one. Luckily I was able to drop the second on top the first hang up. I’ll cut the bearing flats later
That is one beautiful pile of (as my son would say) skinky wood. Nice work bud, atleast you get to put a nice new handle on your axe. Good job
This one has to fall uphill and its a bit steep too. Has some lean as well. Rounds will need to get rolled uphill to the trail then splits wheelbarrowed out....uphill too.
I have seen red oak here where all the sapwood is gone leaving just the bare heartwood and the wood is solid.
