10 trees in 10 days

[zig]

1 ash down; 9 to go. It's going to be a long

week.

 

[LocustPocust]

The more the merrier! Although it does get old after a while.

I just took down a medium sized dead red oak, and plan on taking down a Norway Maple and 5 medium sized Butternut Hickories soon. The people here have inspired me to try and get at least a year ahead so I've got my work cut out for me as well. October is a great month around here for outside work.

 

[MaintenanceMan]

Looks like fun!

 

[BenTN]

i love working dead ash. makes me feel like HE-MAN. switch that to a live oak or hickory and my back hurts after brushing the tree.

gonna need another shed to put all that wood in...

 

[CountryBoy19]

i love working dead ash. makes me feel like HE-MAN. switch that to a live oak or hickory and my back hurts after brushing the tree.

gonna need another shed to put all that wood in...

Isnt that the truth... If I push hard I can cut, split, stack almost 2 cords of dead standing ash in 1 day (sun-up to sun-down without taking many breaks)... it's a lot of work to limb/brush a live tree, but the dead-standing don't have much to take off...

 

[zig]

Isnt that the truth... If I push hard I can cut, split, stack almost 2 cords of dead standing ash in 1 day (sun-up to sun-down without taking many breaks)... it's a lot of work to limb/brush a live tree, but the dead-standing don't have much to take off...

They've been dead so long when the tree hits the ground, the twigs and small limbs explode everywhere. I gotta rake that stuff up. There in a front yard and the house is for sale so it has to be cleaned up nice and neat. I would anyway since the woods free.

 

[STIHLY DAN]

That's a lot of work. I've been doing 1 live oak a day for a week and a half, this gets heavy real fast.

 

[zig]

That's a lot of work. I've been doing 1 live oak a day for a week and a half, this gets heavy real fast.

I feel that pain.

 

[CountryBoy19]

They've been dead so long when the tree hits the ground, the twigs and small limbs explode everywhere. I gotta rake that stuff up. There in a front yard and the house is for sale so it has to be cleaned up nice and neat. I would anyway since the woods free.

You've got it worse than me then... EAB swept through here a long time ago and all the EAB killed ash trees have lost everything up top. Woods trees are just a long, straight pole standing up, it falls, you buck it to length and that's it... a couple more years all the ash trees will be too rotten for firewood so I'm getting everything I can while I can... I sitting on a 6-7 year supply of wood right now.

 

[zig]

Woods trees are just a long, straight pole standing up, it falls, you buck it to length and that's it...

I wish. Woods trees are getting like that here but these are in the yard; no others around them. Bottom 4 feet or so a little damp and some have sprouted new suckers but the rest of the tree is dusty dry.