Looking around my property for signs of deer hunters and found a nice white oak blowdown that took out a decent sugar on the way down. It's across my 4 wheeler path. The property is hilly acreage I bought 20 years ago that adjoins my original homestead but there is no reasonable access to the land where the tree is down, kinda scary just going up the hill on a 4 wheeler. Just estimating I'd say it's 18"at the base,and about 90' tall.
[QUOTE="bang, post: 735842, member: 3959"The property is hilly acreage I bought 20 years ago that adjoins my original homestead but there is no reasonable access to the land where the tree is down, kinda scary just going up the hill on a 4 wheeler.[/QUOTE] I’ve had that kind of hoarding issue, there was a two hour window that I had to haul pieces of wood out of a steep area. Once the sun hit the slope it got greasy and slick. It took a while to get the wood out, I had to wait for days that were cold enough to freeze the ground. Good luck getting it out of there. It’s hard to turn your back on that many btu’s of White Oak
Yep it would be hard for me to leave that there! Even if I had to take it out a split at a time. Just too much heat laying there to let go to waste. Good luck!
bang If your logging road is down hill from the white oak, how much of a problm is it to just roll the rounds down hill? I have done a lot of cutting up from the access road and just rolled the rounds down hill. It seems that most of my wood gathering is done without a lot of big equipment.
Not to high jack.....however I have 24 horse 4 wheel drive kioti w/bucket n there's no way I can it into the area I'm cutting so I use my 1250 cub cadet n a small trailer to get my wood out...may take 3 or 4 trip for some descent red oak but its worth it!
.I'm looking at options. I'm not in mountains but I have very steep hills and rough terrain on about 75% of my land. I'm more concerned coming down loaded and it's shaky going up.
I have done this before. I prefer to get the logs to a landing or open spot to work on them, but that's not always a viable option.
Thats what I've been doing with the log arch and quad. Giving the Country Manufacturing log arch a good workout
This is a satellite view of the property. The top left corner is the valley I live in. I have to enter from the road and go in the gully in the bottom left corner. The oak is close to the right edge. This view is of approximately 25 acres. It's a long steep climb from my valley side and impossible on anything other than a dozer or skidder
