A porcupine did this years ago and the last two or three years it didn't have any leaves so I'll give my knees a break from working on the side of a hill and get this tomorrow if it doesn't rain.
Dead tree is easy to get dry but my experience is that's a bit trickier to make it fall in the right direction and when I put a wedge to fell it, dry branches can fall down and hit you.
Not this one but I do remember felling one in the winter when I first join my first wood related site, once I started cutting the notch it was hollow.
I had planned to fell this down the trail I came up on so I felled two Ironwood in the way but after giving the Beech another look it had a natural lean to the west so that's where I felled it. Pictures 0208 & 09 are the Beech I felled, 0210 & 0211 is another Beech I noticed before I was leaving that will come down, 0213 is the Ironwood, 0214 & 15 are some of the Beech rounds and the last three are coming down from up top where I was cutting.
More Beech and Ironwood coming down, I did get all the bucked up rounds of Beech split but pulled out because of the wind. I'll put some pictures up later after I take a shower and cook some spaghetti sauce for tomorrow with some braciole.
It was finally nice to split some wood that did some popping and made the MTD 20 ton groan some, I'm glad we bought the MTD even though it had plenty of miles on it. Once our Gov starts opening things up, we're thinking about having a new motor with new hydraulic lines put on.
Here are the pictures of the beech I split today. Picture 0220 is getting setup, 0222,0223 and 0226 are three beech that will be felled, 0225 and 0229 is the beech split and 0228 is what I need to buck up.
