It's the time of year for wood cutting out here, and I thought you might like a few pictures. I'll try to have the camera along for more projects and add them to this thread. For the first post, these are three ash trees I limbed and skidded out of the woods up onto the field. Two of them had fallen down about a year ago, and knocked the third one over into an elm. The pictures are of the trees in the field, the first load I hauled home, and then the final stack at home. The stack is a full 16' by about 5.5' high and the wood is cut to 19" long. So it's a little over a cord of wood out of those three logs.
They're off of one of Grandpa's old pickups, but I don't know which one. Most likely they are older than I am.
Thank you, Sir! There's about one good day of work in it so far. My BIL is planning to visit this spring, I plan to have a full day's worth of splitting ready by then.
In the first and third pictures, you can see a large ash tree that needs to come down. But I looked at it closely after cleaning up these trees, and noticed a couple 80d or 90d nails sticking out of it in that first large crotch. I suppose they are from an old tree stand, and that probably means that whole trunk is spiked from a ladder. It may not be worth it to cut up the main trunk after all. There will still be a nice load out of the tree above those nails. However, it's likely to be a while before I get back to that tree again. We had our first real blizzard of the winter yesterday. I took this picture just now. That fresh wood pile had some strong wind currents around it!
A nice warm February day meant that time's up for that big ash tree. The old 036 got some action trimming off a root spur, and then the 461 brought her down. A nice straight drop right where I wanted it. I probably didn't even need the wedges, but I didn't leave a backstrap and didn't want that thing coming down back on top of me.
Made a mess of the top, but, hey, no splitter need for a few cuts. It was covered with spike branches, but the 250 was hungry and ready to trim. Couldn't go home without loading some up. Yes, I know, for a lot of you that pickup is only half full, but I had a state highway to travel and the springs were already sagging. Still plenty of wood left to cut
Nice work and lots of heat in that stack, well done! Flat country! I love it! Not like my Kentucky hillside; your place is easy in, easy out. I've got near 5 cord of ash rounds from 9 trees up on a hillside now I need to get down. Too tippy for my BX so I may have to hold off for a long streach of dry weather to get it in the Tacoma. Once again, A JOB WELL DONE!