couple pics... post what your currently cutting

Maine logger88 · April 16, 2018, 07:43:03 PM

Looking good! That's a big load on that Green KW! Wish I had some logging pics to post I got mudded out doing an inframe on a dt530 right now once that's done I have to put injector cups in a cat hopefully by the time those are done I can get back in the woods

nativewolf · April 16, 2018, 10:34:42 PM

So this medium sized cherry was leaning over the road we need to use on an upcoming harvest, we dropped it, the bottom was rotted and out scurried a little flying squirrel and 3 kits. Hated to mess up her nest. Anyway, I thought maybe there was a good firewood log if the heart rot ended so I bucked it about 12 feet up and this is the first cut on that log, about 12' log and only 12" at the small end but what growth rings. I have never seen such small sap rings on a tree before, that sap ring is literally 1/8". If only the walnut look like that I'll have a wonderful month of cutting. I had hoped we'd cut today but the storms that blew through made it too muddy, 3" here overnight. High winds til Friday so it looks like we cut on Friday instead.

mike_belben · April 17, 2018, 01:12:36 PM

Thats a nice sound end. Between ants, rot or shake, i rarely get one that pretty.

Skeans1 · April 17, 2018, 09:04:35 PM

You guys would cry but our cherry just gets chipped or thrown into the rows for mat to run on not much use for it out here.

Skeans1 · April 17, 2018, 09:46:10 PM

Tired of little dog hair patches be glad to be back in good size thinning.

coxy · April 17, 2018, 10:16:45 PM

Quote from: nativewolf on April 16, 2018, 10:34:42 PM

So this medium sized cherry was leaning over the road we need to use on an upcoming harvest, we dropped it, the bottom was rotted and out scurried a little flying squirrel and 3 kits. Hated to mess up her nest. Anyway, I thought maybe there was a good firewood log if the heart rot ended so I bucked it about 12 feet up and this is the first cut on that log, about 12' log and only 12" at the small end but what growth rings. I have never seen such small sap rings on a tree before, that sap ring is literally 1/8". If only the walnut look like that I'll have a wonderful month of cutting. I had hoped we'd cut today but the storms that blew through made it too muddy, 3" here overnight. High winds til Friday so it looks like we cut on Friday instead.

i was thinking the same thing there isn't much white wood most of our cherry around here except for in a swamp has about 2 or more inches of sap/white wood on them

BargeMonkey · April 17, 2018, 11:40:31 PM

I ride past 250mbdft of cherry on the state land that would make a man cry, it will blow over / rot before they cut it. I just don't feel like wearing an ankle bracelet but the thought has crossed my mind 🤣

nativewolf · April 18, 2018, 10:04:44 AM

man you are in NY, there is someone in Albany waiting on a steak in exchange for a cutting permit. Ok, not a steak...but a Mercedes. I decent mercedes for his/her daughter/son would probably get you a special harvest permit.

petefrom bearswamp · April 18, 2018, 10:25:26 AM

Not if it is in the Forest Preserve. What they call forever wild, we call forever rotting.

mike_belben · April 18, 2018, 10:50:20 AM

NativeWolf gets it.

Banjo picker · April 18, 2018, 07:49:53 PM

I have spent the last 3 days in New Jersey and New York and I can hardly believe the amount of wood I have seen rotting in the woods. Banjo

mike_belben · April 18, 2018, 10:30:41 PM

I lived in springfield mass for a decade. Across the street was a city owned swamp filled with 30+ inch veneer oaks dropping limbs from old age. Most of the suburban woods up there were the same. I hardly knew what a sawlog was.

coxy · April 19, 2018, 08:21:07 AM

Mike ill be going through there on Saturday. On my way back from the open house

mike_belben · April 19, 2018, 09:12:00 AM

Through spfld? What open house we talking about?

Sheepkeeper · April 19, 2018, 08:51:43 PM

Dropped this white oak yesterday. I haven't put a tape measure on it yet but that is my MS390 with a 20 inch bar for scale. This is a dead (last year) tree in one of our cattle pastures that will be going into 2 x 8's for a corral rebuild on one of the pastures. I will take off a couple of pieces of firewood from the butt to get rid of the hollow core. There is one more to come down tomorrow. Trouble is that this pasture has a lot of boggy ground that has water standing so getting the logs out is going to be a problem. May have to sneak them out through the neighbour's field. Need to do some overdue tile maintenance to get rid of the water.

nativewolf · April 19, 2018, 09:23:39 PM

Nice oak Sheepkeeper. If I were you I'd leave the but on and just cut boards around the rotten pith. You've got room for several 2 x 8s in that butt log. That will let you box out the pith and you can use that for firewood instead. Heck of a large tree and perfect for what you were describing.

That limbs would be quite a bit of wood I'd think.