My own BL thread

So to not hijack buZZsaw BRAD's thread, or one of the others, I figured I'd start my own.

At a friend's place. Property is in need of cleanup.

First, get stuff off the shed roof-

I brought my electric pole saw. Right tool for the job.




Off to the right is where the expected bl is. There's bl in the area, but I was dealing with a downed tree, barkless.

It's bl!


Spent time cutting up dead and down, as well as trimming back a limb.

So, a mix of dead and green


Dead on right, green on left


There was another downed tree that I did a few test cuts on. I'm pretty sure it's bl. There's that telltale yellow/green wood chips.


It may be a year or two beyond primetime, but I'll still get what I can of it. Probably tomorrow.

 

Nice score.

 

Yep. First pic smack dab in the middle, BL.
I haven’t seen one in my entire town,,,yet anyways. Never give up hope.

 

lookin good. Glad to see you took the small limb wood. Your next to last pic i believe is mulberry. It has yellow chips too.

 

Mulberry? Hmmmm... never seen any of that. There's bark on part of that tree. I'll get pics of it tomorrow

 

Here's a pic of MB to compare with what you have Mike.

 

Thanks! The wood face is totally different, but, I suppose that could be due to time being dead and down.

Maybe, when I get more cut, it'll look more lIke mb. The tree I have, was a blow over, with root ball still connected.

 

Thats awesome Mike! Bet you were one happy hoarder when you found the locust! How much more BL is there?
Cut some BL myself today. New thread coming.

 

How much? TBD. It might be mulberry. No problems hete, if it is.

 

Went back this morning...

Still not sure what the mystery wood is -


It might be BL.. maybe not. But I took about 10 rounds of it.

Then I spied a clump of BL, that was blown over.


Some of it bark-falling-off dead, and some still green. Hell ya!

Still had to add the trunk pieces to the load.


Trunk rounds, on top of load.



Unloaded with yesterday's wood. Trunk rounds lower right.


Left lots of bark behind. It came off in long strips. Added to both sides. More on the right.

And, mystery rounds on a couple of BL rails.


It's supposed to rain tonight. I hope to get out in the morning to start processing these. The green BL, will be put with some recently split red oak. They can wait the 3 yrs. The dead stuff, I'll stack separately. I'll probably bring a round inside for a couple of days, Split it and see what the MM indicates. Same with the mystery wood.

There's at least another two-tree group that's blown over in the same area. I'll get it eventually.

 

Well not mulberry Mike. That bark reminds me of poplar and that will throw a yellowish /green chip.

 

yeah.. now that you mention poplar.... The bark was slimy against the wood, and it all had a sour smell to it. Glad to have it for SS.

 

That's the hoarder spirit Mike! I was thinking aspen for the mystery wood, which i believe is aka poplar.
Yup good SS wood.

 

I put in a small piece of BL, about 2in in diameter. It burned fine. Fine is defined as nothing sizzling out the cut end. The piece sat next to the wood stove for about 18hr.

I then put a forked piece in that's about 3in diameter. It also is burning fine.

Whoooooo!!!!!

Once I have just a bed of coals, I'll drop a split into them and see how it does. Triangular split, about 4in, per side.

 

Don't get carried away there, Mike. It's still above freezing.

 

True. Temps are dropping through the day.

I'll work it in with my other wood. It's nice to have options.

 

I got most of the dead-ish bl css.



I hope to get to split the poplar tomorrow morning, unless I decide not go outside with windchills in the low single digits.

I also still have the green limbs to cut to size.

Real windy/gusty outside, currently

 

Look in good Mike. Shouldn't take to long to dry. Been watin for cold here. Gonna be out early tomorrow.

 

I wouldn’t know a locust if it had a name tag. Your going to have to come up to our place to see if there’s any here and show me.
Nice hoard!