I happened to see a few trees that had been taken down, in a guy's front yard. I approached him, and he said "I'll probably put a free wood sign out, after I have the tree guy back to buck the rest of these trunks." He told a few guys he had free wood, but none of them have showed so far. And now, I've taken all the small, easy stuff and all that's left is huge rounds. A lot of scroungers probably don't have the experience to know how to deal with the big 'uns. [smirk]
I should have told him I'd handle that, because now I've got a bunch of "tree-man chunks" to re-cut to 16".
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That just comes with the territory, on these off-site scrounges.
The majority of the wood is White Ash. I'm seeing more of them dying, now that the borer is sweeping through this area.
There's one tree that appears to be some type of hard Maple, maybe a landscape variety since the bark looks different from the native Sugar Maples I normally see here. It is some tuff stuff..I couldn't split these cored-out rounds, even after rip-cutting them in half.
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I've hauled four loads already with the 5x8' trailer, and there are several more left. I'm not heaping up the trailer, so as not to stress the car too much hauling it home.
Here's what I think is the Maple:
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Here's the growing on-deck stack at my SIL's. The stuff in the rack is some Red Maple I stacked in the spring, from a half mile down the road. This outside rack has sheet metal over the top. It'll be interesting to see how dry it got in six months. She has another four identical racks in her roof-only shed.
I've only gotten half the wood on this score so far, so when I finish I should have quite the "Yereyeah Heep" waiting to be processed.
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Gotta be two cords at least, I'd think..
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