Last year I saw a down Black Cherry by the side of the road about two miles from the house, and stopped to talk to the guy. Turned out it was on his neighbor, but I saw that this guy had a couple of dead BL right on the road. I got permission from the neighbor to get the Cherry but hadn't gotten back there yet, when I saw that the two BLs had fallen. I didn't get with the guy for several weeks, and he cut up some of the smaller limbs for himself. I left him a message about the rest, and he called back a few days later. He said he would give me half the BL if I cut it up and left him the smaller stuff. The first day there, he pulled in as I was loading and said to just leave him the smaller tree, so I ended up getting about 2/3 of the BL.I got a total of three lightly-loaded trailers' worth, and went ahead and cleaned up the debris, just to be nice.
I also left him a little Cherry. The second day over there, I hadn't kept an eye on the weather but I lucked out; Got the last load on the trailer, loaded the saw and tools, and pulled out just as a big storm hit. It knocked out a lot of power in town, tore down several trees, but we got off easy out here with just a few down branches. ![Oops! :oops: :oops:](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/ohh.gif)
Here's the Cherry, and my faithful companion (one of them, anyway.)![Smile :) :)](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/grin.gif)
First load of BL. Threw down a couple pallets but with BL, who really needs 'em??![shade smirk >> >>](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shade_smirk.gif)
Last load.
Got a little bonus collateral damage, a small sickamore. Inspector said "Why did you bring this??"
Well, it's been a while since I messed with it, I just wanted to see if it was as bad to split as I remember.
I'll probably leave most of it in rounds and let it sit for a few years...
![cheese ==c ==c](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/cheese.gif)
![Oops! :oops: :oops:](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/ohh.gif)
Here's the Cherry, and my faithful companion (one of them, anyway.)
![Smile :) :)](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/grin.gif)
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First load of BL. Threw down a couple pallets but with BL, who really needs 'em??
![shade smirk >> >>](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shade_smirk.gif)
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Last load.
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Got a little bonus collateral damage, a small sickamore. Inspector said "Why did you bring this??"
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