Finding wood to cut

[Shane N]

It is amazing how if you look close enough, you can find dead standing wood all around you. I've lived here for over a year now and only noticed a couple dead standing trees. Today I walked around a bit and saw a good couple dozen. Most are jack pines and eastern white pines. I took a picture of some of the oak trees and branches I want to start with so they have a chance to dry.

By the way, all the wood I'm cutting here is for my parents, not myself. I can't get out into my woods due to the depth of snow

(SQUINT!) Small red oak (6-8") snapped in half:


Dead red oak branch attached to tree, and another on the ground:


Dead standing red oak dead center of the picture:


Once I process all of this I'll start tackling the big pines.

On a different note, do any of you have woods that thick with saplings like that last picture? Those get so annoying

 

[ScotO]

It is amazing how if you look close enough, you can find dead standing wood all around you. I've lived here for over a year now and only noticed a couple dead standing trees. Today I walked around a bit and saw a good couple dozen. Most are jack pines and eastern white pines. I took a picture of some of the oak trees and branches I want to start with so they have a chance to dry.

By the way, all the wood I'm cutting here is for my parents, not myself. I can't get out into my woods due to the depth of snow

(SQUINT!) Small red oak (6-8") snapped in half:
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Dead red oak branch attached to tree, and another on the ground:
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Dead standing red oak dead center of the picture:
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Once I process all of this I'll start tackling the big pines.

On a different note, do any of you have woods that thick with saplings like that last picture? Those get so annoying

the woods on the sides of our mountains are WICKED thick with switch like that. mostly black birch.......

Sometimes up there when deer hunting, you see a deer that's literally 30 yds away and it's impossible to get a shot, it is so thick......

 

[billb3]

On a different note, do any of you have woods that thick with saplings like that last picture? Those get so annoying

Like this ?

 

[Shane N]

Kind of. Yours look older and more thinned out. But yours probably looked like the above 3-5 years ago

 

[billb3]

20 years ago you couldn't walk through there at all.
Now you pretty much follow the deer trails where they've knocked the lower branches off.
All 6 to 15 inch pine.
Or maple in a few places.

 

[ArsenalDon]

It is amazing how if you look close enough, you can find dead standing wood all around you. I've lived here for over a year now and only noticed a couple dead standing trees.

in our county all we are allowed to cut is snags....so we get real good at spotting them from any distance. The good thing about snags is that they are already partially seasoned

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Remember what Carlos Castaneda, a Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology, said: "Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all."

 

[Backwoods Savage]

n a different note, do any of you have woods that thick with saplings like that last picture? Those get so annoying

For sure. Can't see too far in most of our woods except for the big areas where we had to cut the dead ash trees.

 

[ArsenalDon]

Remember what Carlos Castaneda, a Peruvian-American author and student of anthropology, said: "Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all."

Oh of course I remember Carlos Castaneda and what he said! who could ever forget?!

 

[HDRock]

Now that I burn 100% for heat ,I have to watch myself driving cuz I can end up lookin around for wood to much,, watch where your going
Any one catch yourself doing that

 

[Ralphie Boy]

Any one catch yourself doing that

All the time When I"m not doing that I'm trying to think of ways to retrieve that impossible to retrieve log or tree.

 

[NortheastAl]

Now that I burn 100% for heat ,I have to watch myself driving cuz I can end up lookin around for wood to much,, watch where your going
Any one catch yourself doing that

I think that happens to most of us. First, you start looking roadside, then you begin to look deeper and deeper into the woods for a find. I let my wife drive lots of times. She gets tired of me yelling out "look at that!" All the time, though.

 

[OldLumberKid]

I gotta admit I look at those bits of snagged wood and wonder ... how do I access that, cut it and load it? Roads are too busy almost 24/7 or no-stop highways. Folk would freak if they saw a dude with a chainsaw sawing it up, bcs the only folk they are used to seeing doing at this end of the Island are utility/road crews. Still, a little scrounge here, a little there.

 

[Sodbuster]

That's why you need your orange vest and hard hat, you'll look official and no one will say a thing. Seriously, I'm always on the scrounge, and a question for those that may know. If a tree is fallen on the roadside, I mean in the ditch, which would put it in the county right of way, do I need permission to cut it up and haul it off?

 

[HDRock]

That's why you need your orange vest and hard hat, you'll look official and no one will say a thing. Seriously, I'm always on the scrounge, and a question for those that may know. If a tree is fallen on the roadside, I mean in the ditch, which would put it in the county right of way, do I need permission to cut it up and haul it off?

Not if no one catches ya

Really I would like to know to

 

[jackatc1]

That's why you need your orange vest and hard hat, you'll look official and no one will say a thing. Seriously, I'm always on the scrounge, and a question for those that may know. If a tree is fallen on the roadside, I mean in the ditch, which would put it in the county right of way, do I need permission to cut it up and haul it off?

Where I live, the landowner owns to the center of the road.
Town and county roads, not sure about state highways.
When the county crews are triming on my frontage they leave all 3" and up for me.
Plus the shreded branchs if I ask. Legaly it belongs to me.

 

[Sodbuster]

Good to know Jackatc, sometimes it is hard to know who owns what when you get out in the sticks a little. A little due diligence would be good though, don't want to be known as a thief.