OK guys – not sure if I want sympathy or a lecture.
As you can see from my number of posts I am a newbie - will be burning for the first time this winter with a new Fireview - amassed 7 Cords of Oak so far just trying to get ahead.
This past weekend Hurricane Irene left us here in CT with some good wood – this past Monday I hear a chipper at the neighbors so I stroll over and low and behold he has a tree on his house.
Talk to the tree guys – asked what they are doing with the wood – he says we are leaving it as is. Asked what it is – he says Black Cherry and stated its an excellent firewood. I then ask the neighbor and he says its mine if I want it. So I run home grab the tractor, trailer and saw and proceed to buck it up.
When I get home I research Black Cherry and read that many take the larger logs and cut them into slabs for wood working into tables etc not firewood. As you can imagine my heart sank when I looked at various pictures of large slabs then I pan to the bucked rounds in the trailer.
The base of this tree was 24 inches and the base log lengh was at least 10 feet. If I had to do it all over again I may have tried to roll it only my trailer and bring it to a mill.
Am I reading too much into this?...What would you guy have done.
As you can see from my number of posts I am a newbie - will be burning for the first time this winter with a new Fireview - amassed 7 Cords of Oak so far just trying to get ahead.
This past weekend Hurricane Irene left us here in CT with some good wood – this past Monday I hear a chipper at the neighbors so I stroll over and low and behold he has a tree on his house.
Talk to the tree guys – asked what they are doing with the wood – he says we are leaving it as is. Asked what it is – he says Black Cherry and stated its an excellent firewood. I then ask the neighbor and he says its mine if I want it. So I run home grab the tractor, trailer and saw and proceed to buck it up.
When I get home I research Black Cherry and read that many take the larger logs and cut them into slabs for wood working into tables etc not firewood. As you can imagine my heart sank when I looked at various pictures of large slabs then I pan to the bucked rounds in the trailer.
The base of this tree was 24 inches and the base log lengh was at least 10 feet. If I had to do it all over again I may have tried to roll it only my trailer and bring it to a mill.
Am I reading too much into this?...What would you guy have done.