10 trees in 10 days
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LocustPocust
Burning Hunk
The more the merrier! Although it does get old after a while.
I just took down a medium sized dead red oak, and plan on taking down a Norway Maple and 5 medium sized Butternut Hickories soon. The people here have inspired me to try and get at least a year ahead so I've got my work cut out for me as well. October is a great month around here for outside work.
I just took down a medium sized dead red oak, and plan on taking down a Norway Maple and 5 medium sized Butternut Hickories soon. The people here have inspired me to try and get at least a year ahead so I've got my work cut out for me as well. October is a great month around here for outside work.
MaintenanceMan
Minister of Fire
i love working dead ash. makes me feel like HE-MAN. switch that to a live oak or hickory and my back hurts after brushing the tree.
gonna need another shed to put all that wood in...
gonna need another shed to put all that wood in...
Isnt that the truth... If I push hard I can cut, split, stack almost 2 cords of dead standing ash in 1 day (sun-up to sun-down without taking many breaks)... it's a lot of work to limb/brush a live tree, but the dead-standing don't have much to take off...
They've been dead so long when the tree hits the ground, the twigs and small limbs explode everywhere. I gotta rake that stuff up. There in a front yard and the house is for sale so it has to be cleaned up nice and neat. I would anyway since the woods free.
That's a lot of work. I've been doing 1 live oak a day for a week and a half, this gets heavy real fast.
You've got it worse than me then... EAB swept through here a long time ago and all the EAB killed ash trees have lost everything up top. Woods trees are just a long, straight pole standing up, it falls, you buck it to length and that's it... a couple more years all the ash trees will be too rotten for firewood so I'm getting everything I can while I can... I sitting on a 6-7 year supply of wood right now.
I wish. Woods trees are getting like that here but these are in the yard; no others around them. Bottom 4 feet or so a little damp and some have sprouted new suckers but the rest of the tree is dusty dry.
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