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Looks like this weekend this cherry will be added to our stacks, it's hung up on the birch so once I get back in and take a better look then I'll decide on how to cut it. First I'll finish off stacking what cherry I split.
The cherry in my neck of the woods is prone to a black growth that deforms the wood. But it is excellent firewood. I haven't measured the moisture content right after I cut it, but it seems to dry faster than pine!
The cherry in my neck of the woods is prone to a black growth that deforms the wood. But it is excellent firewood. I haven't measured the moisture content right after I cut it, but it seems to dry faster than pine!
A year ago this friday we got 77" in 72 hours.
Nothing in the forecast but it can change in the blink of an eye.
I put chains on the loader last nite. Just in case!
IF you cut that birch first (and I would NOT recommend it) watch your azz for a split/barber chair. Looks to me like a butt cut on the cherry and rope and pull at a 45 degree angle, but its tough to say without seeing it in person.
IF you cut that birch first (and I would NOT recommend it) watch your azz for a split/barber chair. Looks to me like a butt cut on the cherry and rope and pull at a 45 degree angle, but its tough to say without seeing it in person.
You could almost walk on that cherry and drop it with your body weight. I would make cuts on the cherry to drop the trunk in pieces. Lightens the load, reduces the stress and danger and gets it down fast. Cut into 3-4 (or longer) log sections with undercuts. After a few of those, what's left should either drop or be easily pulled or pushed out of the birch. I've brought down a few hung up trees like that. Saves a lot of screwing around with ropes and pulling - which certainly do have its place, but I'd reserves that for trees that are hung up waaaay up high and are much more vertical that this one.
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