Trees you've cut

[chiselbit]

 

[jakethesnake]

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Clean work

 

[heimannm]

The Emerald Ash Borer is still at work in the area, the ash tree in my front yard succumbed over the winter/spring this year. This city has been working to get them down and hauled away, but have been willing to give me a few logs now and then.

Today was my turn, and they were kind enough to let me do the honors of dropping it and most of the cutting. The city crew kept busy cutting the smaller stuff and feeding the chipper. I was busy cutting, splitting, loading the wood, and hauling most of it down to the basement in anticipation of cooler weather on the way.











Mark

 

[davidwyby]

Cool little dozer @heimannm

 

[heimannm]

It is certainly not a commercial machine but it does come in handy at times.









Mark

 

[davidwyby]

A couple little dead trees I made deader at @huskihl ’s.

 

[davidwyby]

The top one with the goofy tapered hinge had a side lean, so more hold wood opposite the lean. Worked great.

 

[MustangMike]

Is that Smooth Bark (Pig Nut) Hickory?

 

[davidwyby]

Is that Smooth Bark (Pig Nut) Hickory?

Deciduous and dead is the extent of my knowledge.

 

[huskihl]

Is that Smooth Bark (Pig Nut) Hickory?

White elm

 

[Sawdust Man]

EAB killed ash... bout 18" on the stump...





Cedar....

 

[Big_6]

EAB killed ash... bout 18" on the stump...
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Why was the boring technique used on the Ash?

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[BlackGreyhound]

22" DBH white oak, pretty straight and clean for 39' to the crotch. Stump flare was 35". Pretty much standard tree for my woods. I used my MMWS w/ 28" bar. It may have been a little quicker with my TM 661 and 36" bar. I got a really nice, clean 10' butt log, a 17' second and a 12' third + some nice firewood from the top.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Why was the boring technique used on the Ash?

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Because I like doing it that way.
I almost always use a Humboldt cut and don't like sawing uphill... so I bore em and saw with gravity, plus I usually get better results this way.
And I almost always use a bore cut for my back cut, again because I like the way things work out that way better.
I'm not a fan of using wedges either, so if a tree needs help going where I want it, I either push it with a machine, or if I can't get behind it (or it's too hazardous to be on a machine right underneath the tree), I'll pull it.

On that ash, it was a healthy tree last summer, and it even had about five green leaves up there still when I sawed it down today, so it wasn't dry and really brittle.

 

[Sawdust Man]

22" DBH white oak, pretty straight and clean for 39' to the crotch. Stump flare was 35". Pretty much standard tree for my woods. I used my MMWS w/ 28" bar. It may have been a little quicker with my TM 661 and 36" bar.View attachment 349536 I got a really nice, clean 10' butt log, a 17' second and a 12' third + some nice firewood from the top.

I wanna saw some lumber out of that log.....
That's a dandy!

 

[BlackGreyhound]

I wanna saw some lumber out of that log.....
That's a dandy!

If you were closer, I'd have you out here in a heartbeat. I've been looking for a good local sawyer for a while now. I really want to quartersaw the butt log, but it's only 20" on the small end, so I will probably flat saw it. The rest of the logs will probably get sawn into trailer decking. High demand, don't need to kiln-dry, etc.

 

[Sawdust Man]

If you were closer, I'd have you out here in a heartbeat. I've been looking for a good local sawyer for a while now.

Dang distance....
I'm short on work right now too!
Lol

 

[Hinerman]

EAB killed ash... bout 18" on the stump...
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I did not know the EAB made it to MO. Those things are persistent!!!

 

[Sawdust Man]

I did not know the EAB made it to MO. Those things are persistent!!!

Yep, we got em here now.
I sawed a bunch for a guy just last week, he said they just started in on em last year.
Dang bugs.... I hate wood bugs!

 

[davidwyby]

@Sawdust Man i like the downward humboldt idea.

@Woodslasher