Work Done 2024

[MRD1985]

It kinda looked like some I’ve gotten out of dead trees that were fairly dry. Oh well. Maybe in a year or two.

The semi punky stuff is probably dry enough to burn but that’s about it

 

[thewoodlands]

I had planned on bringing out more firewood but the winds seemed like they picked up my second time back in, I called it a day.

Picture 4733 is the maple branch the winds brought down earlier this spring, 4734 & 35 are the same load I brought back to the splitting area, 4736 is what was left that I bucked up in picture 4743, 4737 & 38 is the cherry a basswood took down, 4744 was the area the maple branch was near and the last picture is the rounds at the splitting area.

 

[thewoodlands]

I took this maple because of the lean it had on it over the main trail, I used an open face notch with a plunge/bore cut, everything went the way I had hoped it would. I think that all the maple in the splitting area ( picture 4755 ) will be close to another face cord, # 60.

Picture 4749 is not the stump after the plunge/bore cut, I took a 15 inch round off of it, that's what your seeing.

 

[30WCF]

I like maple when smoking the Thanksgiving Turkey.

 

[thewoodlands]

I felled this damaged banana shaped maple today. Before starting it I checked the wood at the area I would be cutting, all seemed fine, I did my open face notch with a bore/plunge cut. When I had the bar out of the tree after doing the bore/plunge cut I could hear the cracking so I was off through my escape route, no barber chair but it cut loose before I could cut the back.

In picture 4760 you can see where the rot had worked its way back and picture 4761 was my escape route, I was down past the maple near the smaller tree.