Anyone else benefit from this winters storms? This is all from downed trees starting in October. Hoping some of it will be ready for next burn season. Most cut to 10” so I’m hoping that will shorten the time.
Bountiful Wind Storms
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Hasufel
Feeling the Heat
It's been a bountiful season. I lost 4-5 big'uns during last month's storm alone, plus I have more downed branches than I can, uh, shake a stick at. Not too many people around here process their own firewood so there's a wealth of it just lying along the roadsides, much of it already bucked. If I didn't already have more than I need I'd be scrounging like a squirrel going after nuts in November.
Yup . . . picked up two pick up loads from one of the City parks (after asking permission) this past week.
Yup, it’s feast or famine. I’d have much more here if I had the time to invest. And I don’t want to drive my neighbors nuts with additional chainsawing... plus I still have logs to process.
Nice, the public works guys gave me some oak they were cutting up in the rotary. And a landscaper brought me a cut up soft maple that he would otherwise have had to pay to get rid of.
Yes I have two maples and a red oak that came down in my side yard. The back woods are full of blow down.
Unfortunately I sold my truck and dump trailer but if I still had that I could probably fill it every day just from road side stuff.
A lot of spots still have trees resting on or near the lines here. CMP did the bare minimum to get everything back up and running, not sure if they are going to fix things up this summer. The DOT came through and removed a lot of stuff that was right next to the road, basically as far as the grapple could reach, but they left a lot of hardwoods. Guess they knew us Mainers would clean it up haha
Unfortunately I sold my truck and dump trailer but if I still had that I could probably fill it every day just from road side stuff.
A lot of spots still have trees resting on or near the lines here. CMP did the bare minimum to get everything back up and running, not sure if they are going to fix things up this summer. The DOT came through and removed a lot of stuff that was right next to the road, basically as far as the grapple could reach, but they left a lot of hardwoods. Guess they knew us Mainers would clean it up haha
We have at least 20 full size white oaks blown over since the tornado passed through last May. I doubt I will ever get them all cut and split.
The maples around here are so weak they snap like twigs. I think maybe they’re Silver or Norwegian. They’re all over the place.
Probably Norway. A very brittle wood. Very prone to storm damage in these parts, especially with the leaves on.
I got a cord of Norway and swamp maple cut split and stacked in the sun from the early march storm and another storm that came less than a week later. It all came from my father’s house in the patch of woods between properties. Some of the nice straight pieces of maple I split down to kindling from finger thickness to the size of typical hardwood flooring. Those straight grained Norway maple pieces split easier than pine. I transported it all via my Grand Marquis trunk. There is wood down all over, from smallish limbs to some very big trees. There’s a lot of downed pine in neighborhoods, long limbless trunks.
It's been super windy around here lately and each time I head back into my woods I find another branch or more that's big enough to cut up and split. It's nice. Plus I'm having a tree service come by to buck the giant pine tree that fell across my property during the windstorm we got back in October. Should be sitting pretty this time next year.
A deer ran into my truck and totalled it otherwise I'd have at least a years worth of wood. Nearby town will pick it up if the homeowner put the wood near the street, it was hard driving by piles of wood without my old truck to take it home.
Yep. I just checked on a giant silver Maple down in a backyard of Single out of work lady. She can't afford someone to clean it up. Its about three foot diameter at the bottom. It isn't the best wood but will help someone out!
ValleyCottageSplitter
Feeling the Heat
I was eyeing a 16" x 30' ash that was standing dead for many years, then one of the storms took it down for me! I just CSS almost 1/4 cord that all measured around 18%!
