how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[Semotony]

My friend wanted to cut again today. I meet him and he tells me ther is a hickory down in a cemetery or some oak on his property. I go for the hickory. About 80-90% done and it hit me...this isn’t hickory:

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And it looks like it wood mill into nice slabs and boards if it was still longer

 

[Cat 525]

My my what to do! Hickory would have really loaded the trailer! It's heavy stuff!

 

[Hinerman]

And it looks like it wood mill into nice slabs and boards if it was still longer

Yes, I knew a Missourian would recognize what it is in an instant....

 

[Hinerman]

Time changed, going to get dark early now. The resident scrooge is about to get very grumpy with less daylight.

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders!

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Yes, I knew a Missourian would recognize what it is in an instant....

So would this Kansan. At about 2 seco.ds into the cut.

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Morning .

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[Workshop]

My friend wanted to cut again today. I meet him and he tells me ther is a hickory down in a cemetery or some oak on his property. I go for the hickory. About 80-90% done and it hit me...this isn’t hickory:

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Oh boy.

 

[Homelite410]

Morning fellas, anyone want breakfast? Cast iron, dark roast in the perk and fresh eggs on the griddle.

 

[Cat 525]

Off to church today! Then haui wood up!

 

[Hinerman]

So would this Kansan. At about 2 seco.ds into the cut.

IKR. I kept thinking: "this bark isn't as hard as hickory, the 064 is cutting like a hot knife in butter (my chain is spot on), this doesn't seem as heavy as hickory"....but it was the smell that made the light go off, then I looked at the big rounds on the ground and thought they would have made nice slabs,,,like some nice walnut slabs!!! DOH!!!

The only time I ever cut walnut was at AWOL's friend's charity cut; and to me, walnut has a distinct smell. I only cut hickory one time too.

This tree was a blow down with a big root ball. All the limbs were taken. The root ball stood straight up when I got about 8 feet from the base.

 

[Semotony]

IKR. I kept thinking: "this bark isn't as hard as hickory, the 064 is cutting like a hot knife in butter (my chain is spot on), this doesn't seem as heavy as hickory"....but it was the smell that made the light go off, then I looked at the big rounds on the ground and thought they would have made nice slabs,,,like some nice walnut slabs!!! DOH!!!

The only time I ever cut walnut was at AWOL's friend's charity cut; and to me, walnut has a distinct smell. I only cut hickory one time too.

This tree was a blow down with a big root ball. All the limbs were taken. The root ball stood straight up when I got about 8 feet from the base.

The picture I want is an eight foot stump, sitting on a root ball that could be trimmed with ms-170 loops r cheep to provide more handles n stuff from the complicated grain?

 

[Cat 525]

Somebody had trimmed the log out for you! My my what to do!

 

[Workshop]

My friend wanted to cut again today. I meet him and he tells me ther is a hickory down in a cemetery or some oak on his property. I go for the hickory. About 80-90% done and it hit me...this isn’t hickory:

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After thinking about this, I've come to this conclusion . Could it have been used for other things? Maybe, but no use worrying over it. After all, it does make really good firewood .

 

[Hinerman]

After thinking about this, I've come to this conclusion . Could it have been used for other things? Maybe, but no use worrying over it. After all, it does make really good firewood .

I am sure it could have been used to make some nice boards. But, I don't have a mill. Also, it was in a cemetery so driving heavy equipment in was not an option. It was close enough to a fence that a person with a bucket truck or grapple truck could have grabbed it.

This was a very small cemetery, in the middle of nowhere, that I didn't even know existed. Gravel roads for about a mile. It is maintained by somebody that lives close and has relatives buried there.

 

[Hinerman]

Somebody had trimmed the log out for you! My my what to do!

Easy pickens for sure. A man, that has relatives buried in the cemetery, maintains the cemetery. It is very small. You can't even see it on a map app. Apparently he trimmed the limbs and got the tree off of the fence, but left the main stem and two forks. We did have to log mule out every piece that we couldn't carry.

Honestly, I consider what we did a public service, much more important than any wood I could have gained.

 

[Hinerman]

Anybody have a .325, .050, 66dl bar (16")? A guy gave me a brand new Husqy chain and it does not fit anything I own.

 

[67L36Driver]

Anybody have a .325, .050, 66dl bar (16")? A guy gave me a brand new Husqy chain and it does not fit anything I own.

I can fix you up with a Pioneer P-26 to go with that chain.

[emoji48]

 

[67L36Driver]

Easy pickens for sure. A man, that has relatives buried in the cemetery, maintains the cemetery. It is very small. You can't even see it on a map app. Apparently he trimmed the limbs and got the tree off of the fence, but left the main stem and two forks. We did have to log mule out every piece that we couldn't carry.

Honestly, I consider what we did a public service, much more important than any wood I could have gained.

I know of a cemetery like that up near Albany on a farm. Farm owner looks after it. Some of the stones date to the 1880s. We came across it deer hunting one year by the Grand River.

The neighbor we hunted on allowed that the last burial they transferred the casket to his 4 wd truck to get it up the dirt road/hill.

Lots of tiny markers of children.