Had my uncle come over this morning and help with putting a few trees on the ground. First to go was a big Kentucky coffee. Thanks Scotty Overkill for the ID. It was 90' tall and my 32" bar wouldn't make it through the stump on the narrow side. Hooked a cable from a crane to the tree and my truck for insurance, and wedged it. Tree landed perfect, the stump was only 15' from the road so we needed to be right on the drop. The next one was a walnut that is right in the way for where our goat pasture is going, and the neighbors garden is right under it so he was wanting it gone for years. Both trees came down easy and where we wanted!
Well, now you've got a bunch of "work" to do! LOL Very nice swags. Both of those are plenty big. Hope you have a good time reducing it down to rounds and hauling it to the pile. Do you have any plan for the walnut? It appears to be nice and straight for a good ways.
So far I've got a good 12' log out of the walnut and 2 10' logs out of the coffee tree. Anything I can mill I am saving to make into lumber. The coffee tree is similar to a honey locust from what I am told so all the smaller stuff will be rounds and I'll keep. Walnut I wasn't too impressed with burning so I will probably give that away. I've got around 18-20 cord already cut so don't need the firewood.
Sounds good. I just looked up the BTU's of the coffee tree and it's fine firewood. It looks like you'll have plenty of it too. Even taking a few logs to mill. Have fun!
Got the two 10' logs off and moved away. Had for stop to get ready for a wedding. I'll have my work cut out for me on Monday now.
Impressive Big ones like that register on the richter scale . Nice work. Any local takers for a saw log on the walnut, looks nice & dark, (but a yard tree)
My daughter felt it in the house when it dropped. I've got a guy locally that will buy the logs, although I am debating just milling them myself with my Alaskan mill.
I wish it was Curry, he does good stuff. I have enough bar for the walnut but not the coffee tree. The local guy has a band mill and can cut up the coffee tree.
Wow, Sean, those are some nice trees. A little surprised you don't like Walnut. I burn it a lot. Anyway, the logs are worth more than for firewood. Good work. I need one more load before winter to be fully stocked, or stacked. Lol
What I didn't like about the walnut was the amount of ash really increased when I burned it. Had to clean out the stove a lot more
Some nice big trees. Good job on landing those where you wanted. Got to love it when a plan comes together.
That walnut log looks delicious! Can you see any black mineral stain in the butt to suggest there may be metal in it? I can't tell from your pictures. That will make some beautiful lumber. Get the ends of those logs sealed ASAP. Definitely band mill it.
