Look what I worked on yesterday

[smokedragon]

So here is a picture of what I was working on yesterday (with my woodchuck quad tool).

I caught a decent day in January and got all the brush and the small stuff. This trip was all big wood.

The trunk that you see cut off is 24" diameter and about 10 feet long.

The piece that the woodchuck is holding off the ground is about 11" diameter.

This was some dense wood (a 16" long slice weighed in at 160lbs).

I don't have any heavy equipment, so I was rolling them onto the trailer. Still got everything behind that cut (another 25 feet of tree) to cut and load, but it's raining today.

It's a lot of work, but a good score if I say so myself.

 

[tigeroak]

Going to be a nice pile of white oak to burn in 3 years.

 

[Driver]

Good stuff. I know that's alot of hard work but well worth it!!

 

[smokedragon]

Going to be a nice pile of white oak to burn in 3 years.

probably 1 year, 2 max. The tree fell cause carpenter ants ate the root system. I split a round yesterday (an 8" diameter branch) and it measured 32%. That is why I LOVE LOVE LOVE getting dead trees as opposed to felling live ones. My stuff dries fairly quick here (despite the horrendous humidity).

This is going in 2015 wood stack. Hopefully it will measure up then. If not, another year it is.

Good stuff. I know that's alot of hard work but well worth it!!

That my friend is why they invented scotch (or rye, or bourbon)