todays tree droppings and firewood chunks.

I left a job site at 3 today and the boss said "see ya tomorrow." I had been trying to get over to dad's for the last couple weeks to take down a small walnut, ash and cherry tree that he wanted down. I had the 550xp with me, so I got there with about an hour of daylight left..... He's wanted them down for awhile, and there is a ton of ivy overgrowth at the property behind his and he wanted the walnut gone because it was a nuisance mowing with the walnuts dropping.

walnut on the right, ash on the left.
I cut the posion ivy vines two summers ago and removed about 2-3' of the ivy to keep it from growing back.







small cherry at the edge of his neighbors property that he wanted gone too.



with an hour til dark, the little husky went to town.... dropped them all while dad used a machete and axe to pull the vines off most of the three before chunking up...high notch on both these because they both had voids in the stump.



you can see one of the huge vines on this one that was attached to another tree...this vine was about an inch and a half in diameter, but it wasn't hairy like all the poison ivy I've seen before. almost looked like a grape vine. Ivy?

 

cherry cut up first since it was close to neighbors. it was on his property....this one was about 17" a foot above the stump.



the walnut turned out to be black walnut I believe. I've never cut or burnt black walnut, but when the chips turned from yellow to almost black, I figured it was. I save a couple small straight sections for mill some boards or maybe even a gunstock out of Won't know until I get a chance to slab it up. where I cut the hinge was 18" on this one.



check out the grain in the stump! might cut the base up into slabs and sell them for millions on sweetest day... lol That void is where the poison ivy was growing. the base of ivy vine was about 2" in diameter....



not all the wood, but the majority of the big stuff, lots of 2"-6" stuff too. I ran out of daylight



some of the cherry:



some of the ash: it was about 17" a couple feet above the stump.




Not sure how much is there, not much, but the hard part is done of getting them on the ground and cut up before dark. I can split in the dark with minimal light. Going to take the fiskars over tomorrow and start bringing it home.

 

Good job, looks like good farwood

 

Nice, lots of good firewood there

 

Nice hinges
Green wood
Get it split & stacked, walnut may take an extra year
but the ash & cherry should be great 15/16 wood.

Gotta be near 3/8 to 1/2 cord

 

I love the way cherry smells when it's being cut, it's almost minty.

 

+1
I was admiring the hinges and back cut, too.

 

Awesome work and some nice gooder stuff. You sure went to town on those trees. Nice cuts as well. Keep it up

 

I was hoping for 3/4 cord once it was split and all the smalls.

Thanks. I wanted to keep the tree on the stump so we could easily remove the poison ivy vines before bucking.

I used i high, shallow notch. Bored in behind it, squared up the hinge and cut 90% thru it. Take saw out and flip it around to cut the holding strap. It's easier on smaller trees to do this as you don't have twice or four time the mass and momentum when it comes down.
Made for removing the poison ivy very easy. The

 

Nice work! Love the walnut stump, the heart wood forms the shape of a tree.

 

grape / wisteria / virginia creeper / bittersweet can all get pretty big given some time.


poison ivy likes to hide under creeper here so I've gotten so I assume there's poison ivy anywhere I find creeper and there usually is.

 

Pretty grain

 

This pic is a harmless grape vine often found around these parts. The shaggy bark is the key here.

 

The woods behind my house when I was growing up was loaded with those things...I can remember swinging on them.

 

Nice work. After a day of work even. great job

 

Use to cut the ones in good locations for Tarzan swings.
Were good for a few months before the let go & you hit the ground hard. ( Just bounced in those days LOL )
Climb up & eat the grapes too.
Kids having fun in the woods

 

You making Tarzan swings ? LOL

 

Does anyone have a video out on cutting a hinge. Newer to the fellin part. that is way cool

 

try youtube
Have seen some on forest service links somewhere too.