I've had some red oak in the back of the truck for a couple days. I opened the cap window and stuck my head in earlier and got a good smell of it and proclaimed "smells like red oak in there"... Wife didn't care for the red oak smell. A couple years ago when I had hauled in a good load and put it in the basement. She walked through the door upstairs and said "what smells?"
Looks like you run sharp chains, well done. I love seeing guys with the big rounds and there are half moons on the cuts !!
That is one purdy log! Wish I had me one like that! The one thing I don't like about those perfectly straight splits is that you've got to be careful not to stack them with 2 flat sides touching. They'll tend to get moisture trapped between them and never dry out. When I've got some 'uglies' to mix in, it's never an issue.
skylogger that had to be a beautiful tree. Sad to see something like that come up by the roots. But, it makes great firewood for sure. I'd be curious what one of those rounds weighs? Reminds me of a few years ago when we had one come up with a rootball like that. Not quite as large as yours but the rounds were over 200 lbs for a long way up the tree. Also curious about the cart sitting by the stack. Is this how you hauled the splits to the stack? I've often wondered about those carts as they look as if they could really be handy.
Backwoods that tree is actually on a national wildlife reserve about 12 miles from my house, I've got a firewood cutting permit the last 2 years there. The thing is u can only get wood from trees that have already come down AND have to be within 100 feet of the center of the road AND u have to stay parked on the road so it makes it quite the workout getting wood. I also estimated those rounds at about 200lbs or more apiece so i split each one into 4 even chunks and carry them to my truck. All of the unseasoned wood in that picture has come from that one tree, there is some seasoned pine u can see on the left thats still light. I have a tacoma with a plastic bed so i get 5 of those rounds at a time i figure its about 1000lbs and it gets my springs about a half inch from the rubber stops on the axle. I'll post a pic of the top of the tree i have to walk through to get to that beautiful trunk. It is ashame nothing else can be done with that size of tree but it would just rot if I didnt get it. That cart in the pic is my deer hauler but thats a great idea to use it for wood I might just try it!
Wish I came across straight oak like that, anything I've ever gotten has been terribly knotted yard birds. I also have a Tacoma and the leaf springs on those trucks are just pitiful, I replaced mine with a full Dakar leaf pack, 1000x better. Can carry more than a bushel of feathers without riding on the bump stops. There is a safety recall on the leaf springs, were you aware of that?
