Down near the base of this Cherry we think the survey rod is for the corner of our property. I called our neighbor about starting at 9:30 tomorrow morning and he said start anytime you want. The second picture is where we'll have a trail once I clean it out, it heads back to the area that I took some Yellow Birch from. My plan is that this will be bucked up tomorrow and then I'll see what the best way I can get the splitter back there.
I do like cherry! I just don't have much where I cut. In a year or so build a nice cherry fire in your stove and put a couple lawn chairs just down wind a bit, then just sit and enjoy the aroma!
Thats just fine....let "Mother Nature" do the dangerous stuff and just be on the lookout for her leftovers....!
I still didn't find the survey rod but the tree is all bucked up except for maybe a few more rounds from the top. I rolled a bunch of rounds down to the area I'll be splitting in but there still are about 30 rounds left in the cutting area. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll get the rest down the hill. I used the 310 with the 16 inch bar on part of this Cherry and the 390 with the 20 inch bar on the bigger part.
It looks like a lot of that cherry was off the ground. Good. Don't forget you have a choice. You can take the splitter to the wood or take the wood to the splitter.
The splitter won't get in that area for a long time, that area hasn't been cleaned up since we bought it and way before that. What use to be our neighbor's property has a chit load of dead pine down in the area I could get the rhino and splitter through. I'm guessing it would take a good week to get the trail in. The wife does want a walking trail in that area so it's on the list. If I can't find the survey rod that is the neighbor's back corner tomorrow, we'll have another put in by the guy that did it.
Thanks HD, it was a great day for cutting. Tomorrow I'll get the rest of the rounds down to the splitting area and then find that survey pipe. We have the survey map with all the measurements so it's got to be under a fallen tree. Next week we'll have a metal detector.
I did get the rest of the bucked up Cherry down to the splitting area today. Before I did that the search for the survey rod began, it was up the hill from where I thought it was and underneath a fallen rotten pine. It turns out that the Cherry I bucked up that I thought was the neighbors was actually ours, I did tell our neighbor he could have it so it's his. That area has more damaged Birch (Yellow I hope) and some damaged Maples so I'll be working on a trail for the rhino starting the second week of May. My old beat up lunch/water holder went to the dump this morning, the new one holds more water so that's nice.
Zap to make that survey marker stand out a bit better you could set a t-post inside it and paint the top of it some neon color that stands out. Easier to find in future years.
