We had a huge tornado ish storm here in West Michigan a few weeks back- mostly damage was in an isolated area with tons of beech trees, but wifey gave me a tip that there was a downed beech near Lake Michigan about 1/4 mile from my house. I didn’t expect to see this though! I talked to the owners and they said cut away, they were still trying to contact a tree service to haul it because they are all tied up with other jobs. I didn’t take enough pictures, but the amount of wood is incredible- a lot I won’t be able to safely access since it got hung up in another tree across the street, but I got a couple nice loads. Some 4’ small limbs to inoculate shiitakes in I’m most excited about.
I like the ones that keep themselves off the ground for ya. It is the polite thing to do LOL. Nice wood
Mother nature provides and you obliged. Great firewood there. Nice that it was off the ground for you. Wish I scored beech more often.
You might not be far from me. We were under a tornado warning for almost an hour during that storm. We are 20 miles inland from lake Michigan.
Somewhere... I ended up with some unwanted firewood from high winds a couple weeks ago too, it was from the Beech and Silver Maple in our yard, (lots of smaller than firewood sized branches off the poplar trees too) I'd rather have the trees undamaged than the extra wood (I'm better than 5 years ahead on firewood) I didn't hear anything about a tornado, but the winds sounded pretty serious in the house (woke me up, and I sleep through about anything!) it caused about as much tree damage at our place as I've seen in the 28 years that I've been there! Seemed like there was just a swath in our part of the county that had all kinds of damage, (quit a few very large/old trees down) and outside of that damage seemed fairly minimal nearby.
Nice!! If you ever get a case of reverse CAD and are selling some saws give a shout- I started with a box store cheap saw to learn on and will have to upgrade at some point for trees like this
Brad- any guidelines for cutting off the ground stuff? Hard to tell from the picture, but this is above shoulder height- I’ve read some about not cutting on ladders, but also curious if it’s fine to just climb on up and drop ‘em?
I cut at the base enough to lower the trees to waist height then start lopping off the rounds. Just don't cut to deep to get it to lower and keep your feet ect out from under it when cutting said rounds.
