My log lenth has leaves

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Woodsplitter67

Woodsplitter67

Minister of Fire
Jan 19, 2017
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Woolwich nj
I found this intresting. I was at the back of my lot a couple weeks ago working on the garden. I was also looking a my stacks and looked at my log lenth wood that I have. This wood was cut in january this year and was all cut to approximately 10ft lenths.. I have like 2 kinds of wood here, oak and black cherry. Anything with a branch has leaves on them. Both species have leafed out
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Nature always amazes. Nice pictures, too.

It's probably another sign that our wood often doesn't change much until we get it split.
 
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TreePointer said:
Nature always amazes. Nice pictures, too.

It's probably another sign that our wood often doesn't change much until we get it split.
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I agree. Im also thinking that maybe not as much moisture drops out of the truck as we previously thought. Theese trees were cut in the dead of winter and are still trying to grow. We've had some warm days and there still going strong. I check them yesterday..
 
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Some of the local "old timers" insisted that they drop trees in the winter and wait until summer to buck the wood up as they claimed that the trees left on the tree would suck the moisture out of the tree in the spring when they tried to bud.

I personally drop the trees in late fall and winter so I dont have to handle the leaves. Branches take up a lot less space with no leaves.
 
I had a paper birch do that last year. It was cut around Dec 17/Jan 18 and one of the logs (about 12') started to leaf out around May. Probably not much different than seeing stumps starting new growth.
 
I think I would get that all cut up & split & re-stacked as soon as I could. The logs could be decaying inside and still feeding the leaves with nutrients - I think?
 
Like humans with cancer or amputations, everything works right up until it doesn't anymore. It's just really slow in a tree. As long as the leaves can pull water from somewhere, it's technically alive I think. There's a lilac next to my front door with splitting "trunks" with no bark that are clearly dead, but it keeps making leaves and flowers. Nature is more amazing than anything humans can dream up.
 
SpaceBus said:
Like humans with cancer or amputations, everything works right up until it doesn't anymore. It's just really slow in a tree. As long as the leaves can pull water from somewhere, it's technically alive I think. There's a lilac next to my front door with splitting "trunks" with no bark that are clearly dead, but it keeps making leaves and flowers. Nature is more amazing than anything humans can dream up.
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Heh, along with cockroaches and Twinkies, I'm convinced that we have to add lilacs to the to the list of things that will survive global nuclear war. They just don't quit.
 
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This willow was cut last spring and bucked, split, and stacked in September. Most of it’s light and feels almost ready to burn. Several spots in the stack like this !!!
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The willow family of trees is very odd I'm learning. Poplar is in the same family
 
maple1 said:
I think I would get that all cut up & split & re-stacked as soon as I could. The logs could be decaying inside and still feeding the leaves with nutrients - I think?
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I have to wait untill fall. Im sitting on 14 cord css. Theres no room to put this wood right now untill i start burning again.. it will still be good in 6 months.. im not worried.
 
Within a month they will die out but yea it's will to survive will stay with it till it can't get anything from the under the bark anymore.
 
Reminds me of a time years ago when friend's kid brother bought a "magic yucca" at a fairground. It was a 3" round stick maybe 10" long, with no bark. This kid had been promised it would turn into a tree if he kept it watered. It gave us years of entertainment asking him how his "magic stick" was doing, as he'd look forlornly on his unfortunate purchase. Then one day, easily four or five years later, we looked over to see that it had sprouted!

TE
 
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