For the next couple of months I'm going to be cutting fence row in a field. These aren't your typical fence rows though. Plenty of 10-12" DBH mulberry and hackberry like normal, but it is also lined with 24-40" DBH ash, maple, hackberry, walnut, oak, and hickory.
Last summer a storm took several of the large trees down and now I get to clean them up.
This is the largest tree I'm cleaning. It's a hackberry, around 32" DBH. I'm a little leery of it because it has a hollow spot up top. I'm saving it for last and may skip it all together.
Looking down a row with a downed beech and oak. The ash in the foreground is coming down also. Top is on the ground and we started working on it today.
This is the jumbled mess a lot of it is in though. The farmer took equipment down here and pushed a lot of the trees out of the field. Dirty dull chains for me.
I called a friend with an OWB and had him cut with me today. We cut A LOT of wood and left piles of rounds. Saturday he is bringing his 30 ton splitter and we are going to get to work. Luckily one of my stacking areas is only 100yards away.
Last summer a storm took several of the large trees down and now I get to clean them up.
This is the largest tree I'm cleaning. It's a hackberry, around 32" DBH. I'm a little leery of it because it has a hollow spot up top. I'm saving it for last and may skip it all together.
Looking down a row with a downed beech and oak. The ash in the foreground is coming down also. Top is on the ground and we started working on it today.
This is the jumbled mess a lot of it is in though. The farmer took equipment down here and pushed a lot of the trees out of the field. Dirty dull chains for me.
I called a friend with an OWB and had him cut with me today. We cut A LOT of wood and left piles of rounds. Saturday he is bringing his 30 ton splitter and we are going to get to work. Luckily one of my stacking areas is only 100yards away.
