Even though we handle/move a good bit of wood, most of what we have for personal use isn't prime wood. I want to fill our sheds and racks with good splits and just sell totes. A coworker's mom, who we've known for years, messaged us @5AM Friday morning before the storm was over...we have trees down all over the place... We went over Monday morning, yep, it's a mess...of premium wood...hickory and white oak... We started with the hickory...got a load... More damage... The top of the tree in the shed had his tractor blocked in...we cut that back, he started moving limbs... Still have more hickory to cut... Here's some of the white oak... Cut the hickories off this root ball... And revealed a very nice white oak... This white oak had PO vines and a nice Nope Rope...I had walked up to the tree, pushed a pile of dirt off the trunk off the side, guess this big guy was laying on the other side, didn't see it until it started crawling under the tree towards the PO vines, a piece of pipe was it's demise...5' timber rattler Second load was mostly hickory with 4 white oak logs on top, 3/7.5' & a 9'. We'll go back soon, adjuster is coming Saturday, had to leave trees on the damaged things... Tuesday morning, we went to a different place and started cleaning up some pines. A friend with a mill will get a 16' butt cut, the rest goes to chip mill... We were able to cut the hang up loose and pull it down with the tractor... We used the tractor/grapple to hold/lift this broken pine... Got it cut safely Hauled 5 tons to chip mill We still have 3 more to do for him and his neighbor wants us to get his pines as well.
Nice to have the tools and knowhow to move forward with that mess. Sad to see so much damage and death from that storm. Quality firewood is a silver lining, for sure. Stay safe
Good job on working through that mess. 2 other silver lining is it looks like only the shed took the most damage. That can be fixed. And you got a free lunch and hat band with the timber rattler.
Pine is about $18/ton Hardwood is about $20/ton. We don't haul it to far...lol... Saw logs are a different story. $55/ton for sweet gum $58 or so for oak.
Storm damage is always a mess shame you are so far away those white oak logs are worth nice money around here it is very hard to get sawmills are paying a premium right now JB
T.Jeff Veal you are a blessing to the folks who live down there. You will be blessed too for helping others.
You folks had the highest recorded winds from the storm and the damage shows that. Glut of wood to be had no doubt.
Awesome honey hole! This wood will be great to use to keep ya warm in a few years. Love the smell of white oak when splitting.
If I'd found that snake I would have had a heart attack! I hate snakes. Well, I don't exactly hate them they just scare me to death!
