Thanks Yeah - still lots of oak shade trees. Big trees. What was nice about the trees taken down today,was the timing. Before sap started rising, filling the wood with water. It'll still season for a few years, but not having sap rising, will make it a little easier on me when I start cutting and dealing with the rounds. I was told that some of the larger limbs, were registering 3000 pounds, according to the crane operator.
Mike, how much time are you outside working on wood this winter? Do you try to go out most days, or just the nice ones? Are you done with the "there I was, minding my own business" oaks? It looks like you have a full time job in the oak factory!
No. At least not in NJ and I think that is pretty much the same everywhere. Down the street from me a tree took out a neighbors garage. The owner of the yard where it came from wasn’t responsible at all. And the garage owner got double screwed because the garage was non-conforming with zoning and rebuilding it was difficult.
In Halloween storm some 8 pine trees came down across from bosses house. Trees were on neighbors a yard took out neighbors b house roof, truck, garage and wife's car. Neighbor b been complaining for years about trees. They are gone now but his home insurance bill doubled.
I have not had any wood to work for a few weeks. I did cut some smallish standing dead wood a few weeks ago, about a week's worth, I'd guess. Ha. You made me chuckle with minding my own business. That was a different neighbor that I helped clean up some land clearing he was doing. My "help" netted me about 2 cords of oak. I'm retired, well, forced into it. I have lots of time to get outside. For this wood, I intend to cut it only into rounds and stack them until I have available rack space to split and stack. I'll probably have to quarter the trunks to be able to move a day stack them. On nice days, I like to get outside for 3-4 hours in the morning. This is wood for 3/4 heating seasons away, so there's noooooooo rush to get it split and stacked. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Nice pictures Mike! Can't believe none of the other slackers asked this already. ....so did you work them as a future source for free wood?
Skackers.... bwaahaahaaaa Once I saw how eager they were to feed their chipper, I figured they don't get too many logs looking for a good home. The pile I ended up with, would have been fed into the one-armed wood eater, had I not wanted it. So no, I did not ask. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
All in good time. I have to give it time for family and friends to be able to admire my wood! Not too long, though. My wife wants it moved so the yard doesn't look like yards in New Hampshire or Maine. No disrespect to our northern neighbors , of course. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Sometimes they don't like chipping dead oak as it is supposedly harder on the knives. I know this was true when I was chipping pine trees. Dead ones would bog the chipper. Green ones slid thru like butter. heh You have dead Subarus ?
Thanks for the picture book of the day's activities! Always great to watch a team of professionals doing what they do efficiently. And man, have you got some work to do! Great problem to have. Should split up real sweet, too - nice and straight, and red oak is good to split most of the time.
Just caught this thread and read from front to end. Good day to be a woodburner. You mentioned originally that the neighbor would pick up the cost, but you split cost with him, which I do get as you did want the tree's down anyway. But did you have to split the cost in order to get the wood? Or just the neighbor decided he shouldn't have to shoulder the entire cost? Not that it really matters much, what's done is done, I'm just snoopy/curious is all. I will have to find the time to post some of the pics the wife took when we had some tree's taken down this past summer, 3 Maples (one HUGE one that hovered above the house, a very tall pine that would have fallen ON the house had I tried to manage the beast) and a Hickory that was leaning towards my neighbors house. Wasn't horrible, $1300 for all five trees, with the large yard maple and the large pine stumped. Of course, I am still working on branch cleanup, as I wanted the wood, I didn't have them do much more than cut and drop the sections in a manageable fashion. Had more than a couple nice bonfires this past summer, with more to come. Chaz
The $'s were more than he originally thought, even though there had yet to be a quote generated. So, he offered to split, and I was happy to get his half. There was never any question or discussion of where the wood would end up. It was staying, or getting fed to the wood-eater. What they would have done with the trunks would have been interesting. Haul them away, I suppose. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
Mike this has been an interesting and well documented thread and we thank you. Now you have more work to do but some excellent firewood there. Congratulations.
Thanks! I need to get some sand down where the bobcat tore up the lawn. It's pretty muddy. Once sawing, the wood chips will be an added buffer against the mud. Nothing a little raking, topsoil, and grass seed won't fix when it gets warmer. I hope to start nibbling away at the pile of logs today. I need to lay down some type of "rails", perpendicular to the pile. Then I can roll the logs off the pile and still keep them off the ground for bucking into rounds. I think I have some 4x4 lumber kicking around that should suffice. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
And a HUGE shout out to M2theB. He reached out to me the other day, asking if he could help with the carving up of the wood. The following is the result of him paying me a visit, from about an hour away. Some of the trunk wood, has been reduced to very large rounds. The 20inch bar of his Husqvarna, did what my 16in would not have been able to do. M2theB - Thank you, Thank you, Thank you very much for your time today. It was very much appreciated.
More than welcome. Enjoyed working with you and Bill. Perfect day for it. I also enjoyed seeing what the 562 could do. Maiden voyage with real big oak and I'm still impressed with it.
