After seeing pictures of everyone else's weekend work, I thought a few pictures from over here might be of interest.
A few weeks ago I let the council know of a leaning silver birch by a small trail in the woodland behind our house.
I'd happily take the bowsaw to something down, and small, but this was up in the air, and tall. And over 14" across at the base.
Fortunately, the council guys came yesterday and dropped it, and a couple of others nearby, leaving the wood behind, very thoughtful of them.......
First picture is of the tree a few weeks ago:
Second is of it down, note logging bike at the ready....:
Having dragged it home, I found some of it had already started to show signs of rot, so it was just as well it was taken down now:
The signs are more noticeable just under the bark, which is almost completely waterproof on silver birches:
So I got cracking and split it and got stacking in some open stacks as we have some windy weather forecast, hopefully it'll now start to dry quickly.
I'm really pleased it's down now, tomorrow's work is to get the rest in and stacked away ;-)
A few weeks ago I let the council know of a leaning silver birch by a small trail in the woodland behind our house.
I'd happily take the bowsaw to something down, and small, but this was up in the air, and tall. And over 14" across at the base.
Fortunately, the council guys came yesterday and dropped it, and a couple of others nearby, leaving the wood behind, very thoughtful of them.......
First picture is of the tree a few weeks ago:
Second is of it down, note logging bike at the ready....:
Having dragged it home, I found some of it had already started to show signs of rot, so it was just as well it was taken down now:
The signs are more noticeable just under the bark, which is almost completely waterproof on silver birches:
So I got cracking and split it and got stacking in some open stacks as we have some windy weather forecast, hopefully it'll now start to dry quickly.
I'm really pleased it's down now, tomorrow's work is to get the rest in and stacked away ;-)