Work Done 2025

[weee123]

Was it hard to split?

 

[all night moe]

Crane work of 5 trees and a 6th from the neighbor yesterday. The 5 were norway maples and box elder along a fence line. All fairly straight forward and went well. The neighbors was a mulberry on the rear fence line and 95' away from the crane's turret. One leader grew around a steel clothes line pole, completely engulfing a gusset for the old horizontal steel for the pulleys. It was also wrapped around the 3-4'' pole. Took the top out and then the second set of leaders on the other side of the crown, leaving the base. Cut a bunch of sucker growth out of the primary power lines. Lastly cut the deformed piece from the base and craned the base out as the last pick. This left a 5' long chunk of mulberry with a 16'' diam, hugging the top of the pole.

A full day of work, with no wood score for myself. I would have taken some norway and mulberry but a neighbor had first dibs. It was city work and the work zone was tight anyways.

 

[MRD1985]

Ripped some rounds with the saw then started running low on bar oil so quit for the day. I have about 95% done so far of the previous haul. Only 5-6 rounds left of knarly ash, and 1 big cherry round. They’re probably around 14-18” diameter.

Out of pure curiosity checked some of the cherry rounds that wouldn’t split by hand. Probably about 12-14” diameter. Fresh split burying the pins in I get 22% MC. Not bad at all for sitting in rounds out in the weather. Had to have been a dead limb or dead standing tree. All the rounds that looked like this were pretty light.

This stuff will probably sit for at least 2 years before it’s burned anyway so it’ll be “cherry” by then.

 

[stoveliker]

Work to be done, that is.

Got a delivery. A few sticks of cherry, and one or two of white oak. The rest is red oak. 26" dia, 7 ft long or so at the bottom.

This'll be for the winter of 27/28 or later.

 

[MRD1985]

Work to be done, that is.

Got a delivery. A few sticks of cherry, and one or two of white oak. The rest is red oak. 26" dia, 7 ft long or so at the bottom.

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This'll be for the winter of 27/28 or later.

Nice!! Freebies ?? Looks like at least 2.5- 3 cord there!

 

[stoveliker]

Nice!! Freebies ?? Looks like at least 2.5- 3 cord there!

Yes, freebies nicely unloaded (not dumped) on my driveway.

Largest is 31" dia...

Freebies. But I did give the guy $50 because it was a large truck, and he spent time with his crane unloading.

 

[MRD1985]

Yes, freebies nicely unloaded (not dumped) on my driveway.

Largest is 31" dia...

Freebies. But I did give the guy $50 because it was a large truck, and he spent time with his crane unloading.

That’s awesome. I wish I could find someone that could do that for me around here. Everyone around here wants $500 or better for a tree truck load. I do know an arborist, but I have to go cut it and load it wherever it is. And it’s not consistent it’s not his full time gig

 

[stoveliker]

I save them that money by taking it off their hands. They have to pay to get rid of it here.
The only benefit of being on Long Island, I guess (..)

 

[all night moe]

Work to be done, that is.

Got a delivery. A few sticks of cherry, and one or two of white oak. The rest is red oak. 26" dia, 7 ft long or so at the bottom.

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This'll be for the winter of 27/28 or later.

Nice tree service truck with a prentice loader. Wish I could read the cab door. I may know who it is ..... from online that is.

 

[stoveliker]

Nice tree service truck with a prentice loader. Wish I could read the cab door. I may know who it is ..... from online that is.

I don't know their name. I only have their phone number - got it from a friend of a friend.
The sweater of the guy who drove the truck had a name, but when I google the phone number it's a different company. So I don't know.
He's reliable. He delivers good stuff when I ask. I never push; I'm fine waiting a few weeks until some good stuff comes around.
And he unloaded rather than dumped. My driveway likes that.
He happy, I happy.

 

[all night moe]

A lot of services out there like that. No name trucks and mix matched clothes. It's a tuff gig and employees stray. Especially this time of year when things are a bit slow. No name trucks can be good. It allows 2 services to team up and get a big job done together without conflicting company names. That's a big tree service type log truck being a triaxle.

 

[stoveliker]

Loading 31" oak 7 ft long. It has to be big...
My shorties I burned earlier this season was from a service with no loaders. So that 2 ft diameter red oak was cut into 8" cookies otherwise they could not lift it (by hand!) in their truck.
Sucked for me, but I took what I could get back then.

I just cut up a bunch of the stuff that was a bit precarious on top. Safety first. But I stopped when it got dark, and the d*mn wind blew everything in my face. Safetyglasses were not enough.
Then I split 8 rounds or so. Fresh red oak is heaven...

 

[all night moe]

Loading 31" oak 7 ft long. It has to be big...

That 29,900lb pick I did with the crane was red oak. About 5-6' in diam. It was 30-35' long when we picked it. Cut it up in 5' lengths for my buddies log truck. He's got the same loader on a tandem truck. Sides are caged though instead of solid.

 

[thewoodlands]

Last night we received 6 - 8 inches of wet heavy snow so today I pushed my luck plowing with the tractor, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., two driveways and then a bunch of trails and then I put the tractor away. I see we have a new storm coming in on Saturday and Sunday with a possible 8 to 12 inches. Another system is coming in Thursday but I don't think we'll get much snow from it.