Free Maples

[PA Fire Bug]

A good friend from a farm back our road cut down a couple of maple trees and said that I could look at the wood and decide if I wanted it. I told him that I was sure that I would want it. He said that the trees are silver maples. I got a good start on the job and am looking forward to hauling this wood home. Two years ago, I hauled five or six pick of loads of wood from the same farm after the power company dropped two very large trees. I don't know what kind of trees they were. The bark was thick and stayed wet but the wood burnt really well this past winter. We burnt it for weeks and I still have more for next winter.

What looks like mud is mostly left over corn silage from a trench that they had in the same area last year. Fortunately, it's not manure but rotten silage can smell just as bad.

The plywood and 2x4s are from a tree house that the farm boys built. Fortunately, they didn't put many nails or screws into the tree and I was able to avoid them with my saw.

They were able to dig out the stumps. They flipped them upside down. I think the large stump on the right was from one of the trees that the power company dropped two years ago. My Civic looks a bit out of place on the farm. : )

 

[Flatbedford]

How many cords can you carry in the Civic?

 

[bogydave]

Maple is good. Gonna be heavy wood this time of the year.
Should split easy now.
Have fun, bring something other than a Civic to haul it in. LOL

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Looks like good wood to me. As for the silage, it is something you get used to and I never thought it was bad....except for that one time. Boy that stuff was bad and I had to get into the silo to clean it out. This is one of those jobs you are sort of forced to work fast just to get it done and get out of there.