Some noodling today.

[Fred Wright]

Folks,

We got a good rain last night. Great for the kitchen garden and the SheWolf's flower beds. Unfortunately not so good for the woodlot. It's standing water and mud out there. Hauling rounds will have to wait.

Not one to let a perfectly lovely spring day go to waste I got to noodling the willow oak rounds. Didn't have to cut deep, just a few inches and tag it with the maul. I'll have to quarter some of the bigger ones, will get to that later.

I love red oak, it splits so nicely.

 

[Trundle]

Beautiful woodlot. Nice job on the stump as well. The logger in me always likes seeing the stump cause it immediately tells me if the sawyer knows what he's doing or is still in the "learning phase" (I guess the learning phase never ends, but you know what I mean ). The mills out west prefer the sawyer to use a Humboldt face-cut so the butt-end of the log is square right off the stump and it slips the butt onto the ground first which is a nice safety feature on steep ground. Again, nice job!

 

[Woody Stover]

That is a thing of beauty! I hope Dennis doesn't see this though, he hates noodling. That appears to be Red Oak type....could be Shingle, or more likely in that wet area, Pin Oak. Did it have a lot of drooping branches? Could be some other type though, out west....

 

[jatoxico]

Very nice and stay outta dat mud!

 

[HDRock]

Pretty sight right there, except the mud

 

[Paulywalnut]

Nice. Will that little garden tractor pull all that out for you?

 

[Fred Wright]

This is a willow oak, a variety of red. They grow wild in this area. The tree had a slight lean toward the right in the photo... wasn't sure if I could aim it where I wanted. If it fell the way it leaned it would've hung in trees across the property line. Made the face cut a bit deeper than usual, took my time with the back cut to keep the hinge even. (I've always had a problem doing that.) Thought I'd have to drive wedges but she started to go. So did I.

Yep, the little tractor does a good job of hauling rounds. When the ground isn't pigged up I can load the cart full. The ag and 3-rib tires help. Have dragged green sapling logs with it, around 6" diameter cut to 20' length. That's what I stack wood on.

 

[RORY12553]

What is the reason for noodling the rounds like that? Why not just split it right there?