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[thewoodlands]

Looks like this weekend this cherry will be added to our stacks, it's hung up on the birch so once I get back in and take a better look then I'll decide on how to cut it. First I'll finish off stacking what cherry I split.



Zap

 

[bogydave]

Are you going to try to save the birch? It looks bent over too.
Nice looking cherry.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Looks like you might have a foot of snow to work in by this weekend.

 

[thewoodlands]

bogydave, I think the top of the birch is broken off plus the way it's growing I might as well take it.

solarandwood, I hope it's less, hate to put the chains on this early.

Happy Thanksgiving

Zap

 

[maplewood]

The cherry in my neck of the woods is prone to a black growth that deforms the wood. But it is excellent firewood. I haven't measured the moisture content right after I cut it, but it seems to dry faster than pine!

 

[thewoodlands]

The cherry in my neck of the woods is prone to a black growth that deforms the wood. But it is excellent firewood. I haven't measured the moisture content right after I cut it, but it seems to dry faster than pine!

It's the same here maplewood, I call it black rot.


zap

 

[JustWood]

bogydave, I think the top of the birch is broken off plus the way it's growing I might as well take it.

solarandwood, I hope it's less, hate to put the chains on this early.

Happy Thanksgiving

Zap

A year ago this friday we got 77" in 72 hours.
Nothing in the forecast but it can change in the blink of an eye.
I put chains on the loader last nite. Just in case!

 

[Jags]

IF you cut that birch first (and I would NOT recommend it) watch your azz for a split/barber chair. Looks to me like a butt cut on the cherry and rope and pull at a 45 degree angle, but its tough to say without seeing it in person.

 

[thewoodlands]

IF you cut that birch first (and I would NOT recommend it) watch your azz for a split/barber chair. Looks to me like a butt cut on the cherry and rope and pull at a 45 degree angle, but its tough to say without seeing it in person.

Jags, good call on the cherry. After a few cuts it should come out of the birch.

zap

 

[babzog]

You could almost walk on that cherry and drop it with your body weight. I would make cuts on the cherry to drop the trunk in pieces. Lightens the load, reduces the stress and danger and gets it down fast. Cut into 3-4 (or longer) log sections with undercuts. After a few of those, what's left should either drop or be easily pulled or pushed out of the birch. I've brought down a few hung up trees like that. Saves a lot of screwing around with ropes and pulling - which certainly do have its place, but I'd reserves that for trees that are hung up waaaay up high and are much more vertical that this one.

 

[bogydave]

Looks like you might have a foot of snow to work in by this weekend.

Somebody beat Zap to the weather forecast for his area. :lol:
A foot of snow might change plans.