another weekend, three cords cut up and split I get about a cord and a half last weekend's stash is stacked in the background all several years dead standing
Tree tops are featherweights - would burn real nice now. Base of the trees the water oozes out while splitting - would take a while / a little less if kept covered to dry out. Not planning on using any of this this year as I'm several years ahead. But I have a mom and a sister wanting/needing wood too close nearby now so gotta ramp up the hoarding. Dead standing is a real bonus for staying ahead. Red and white oak cut green usually takes three or four years to season sufficiently here. These are all several years dead standing - lots of oaks succumbed to multiple year tent and winter moth caterpillar and other stresses and died a couple years ago - along the highways and some public parks they cut all the tops off and ground them up as the thousands of dead branches /widowmakers were dropping on cars and threatened people - so there's 20-40 foot tall "stumps" left behind. Looks real odd. Should have taken some pics in the Summer as in many places half the trees are dead. Looks ghostly/ghastly. Must be the same in areas with EAB and ALB Anyone travelling 140/495 in the Lakeville/ Taunton area has seen the thousands of dead oaks along the highway In the woods we've cut about 2 dozen trees down in just a 10/20 square yard area. Dead oak is a little tougher on chains than green - I run my adjustable oiler full blast with just 1/2=3/4 tank of gas. North of me by about 25 miles - sister provides the truck from her employ - a freebee otherwise we wouldn't travel that far. The other half of the wood only gets transported a half mile. We try to get started at 8:30 but a saw hasn't run yet before 10 and we've had enough splitting/tossing into the truck around 2:30.
Bill, I've seen this along the highways, the crews actuall just cut back 95 from N.Attle up to foxboro a few months ago but I never saw any wood for the taking... What's up with all the spruce trees around that way going bare lately..any clue?
They did 24 with huge bucket trucks in some cases I don't understand why they didn't just cut down the tree. Humongous chippers. Spruce trees might be a rust fungus. Haven't noticed any though. Trees usually recover from it with new bud growth in the Spring. They do look dead though.
There was about a half inch to a inch of punk on one tree but it was large enough that it's not such a bad deal, plus with handling it a lot of it is rubbing off. If I can keep it dry it will be relatively irrelevant. It's all red oak. I have mostly pine and swamp maple on my property so this is nice to b getting. This is it until January as I just got the word my friend starts selling christmas trees this weekend. No more cutting unless I want to go by myself. That's Ok. January might work well too.
That's great adding better stuff to your stacks, I have 6 cord of oak waiting for next year. Excited to burn that stuff, this year so far I'm burning the last of my mixed stuff. This stuff I had stacked before I started delegating into pallet racks. Should be through that in Dec sometime. Got locust, mulberry, ash and maple on the list after that.
One of the guys wanted to sell a cord so we got out Saturday unplanned until the last second. Cutting down, splitting and tossing a cord and 3/4 made for a longer day than usual. Got about 3/4 cord for me. A little sore from yesterday so it may not get stacked today. edit: Well, I'm out of pallets and this is going on pallets so I'm not stacking today.
