Last week, my brother in law had a large plum tree go over. I cut it up yesterday. Man, that had a LOT of small branches. Anyone burn plum? I haven't before. I imagine it's a good hardwood like any of the fruit trees, maybe like apple. I'll retrieve the plum wood later, after the mud dries up, and can get my truck closer. I will chunk some up, and try it in the BBQ. I bet it has good smoke flavoring, like apple does.
While cutting the plum, I noticed a couple of trees down in the back of his pasture. I went out to investigate. Sure enough, two ash trees went over about 200' apart. Both smashed his fence. I cut the one up to the fence, but didn't want to cut it off the fence. It would have left a wide open space for the cows to get out. The other one, is near the Little Pudding River that winds through his property. It's too muddy there for me to cut now, and it's also on his fence, and cutting the wood, also will let the cows out. I did limb it though to the fence. One is probably 70' long and 15" diameter, the other is larger, maybe 90' long, and maybe 18" diameter.
While looking at that last tree, I noticed another tree down across the river on his property. I think it's another ash tree from the distance. When the river drops, we can put in a make shift bridge of planks, so we can get across the river. He has some large metal I-beams in place, that we place planks on after the water level lowers each late spring, or early summer, so we can get a mower or wheel barrow across. Last year, it was July. Some years, it's April.
When the ground gets dry, I will go down there and snip the rest.
I am guessing 1.5 cords of wood will be available from the 4 trees. I did not have my camera with me this time. I'll take pics in a month or so when the ground will let me drive down there.
This wood will finish out 2013-2014, and start 2014-2015 firewood.
Happy Easter!
While cutting the plum, I noticed a couple of trees down in the back of his pasture. I went out to investigate. Sure enough, two ash trees went over about 200' apart. Both smashed his fence. I cut the one up to the fence, but didn't want to cut it off the fence. It would have left a wide open space for the cows to get out. The other one, is near the Little Pudding River that winds through his property. It's too muddy there for me to cut now, and it's also on his fence, and cutting the wood, also will let the cows out. I did limb it though to the fence. One is probably 70' long and 15" diameter, the other is larger, maybe 90' long, and maybe 18" diameter.
While looking at that last tree, I noticed another tree down across the river on his property. I think it's another ash tree from the distance. When the river drops, we can put in a make shift bridge of planks, so we can get across the river. He has some large metal I-beams in place, that we place planks on after the water level lowers each late spring, or early summer, so we can get a mower or wheel barrow across. Last year, it was July. Some years, it's April.
When the ground gets dry, I will go down there and snip the rest.
I am guessing 1.5 cords of wood will be available from the 4 trees. I did not have my camera with me this time. I'll take pics in a month or so when the ground will let me drive down there.
This wood will finish out 2013-2014, and start 2014-2015 firewood.
Happy Easter!
