Pictures of your trees on the hit list for the mill

[buzzkc]

I found this one the other day and mark the gps coordinates... I guess these don't rotate, so this is me visualizing it cut down.


 

[beenthere]

buzzkc
Welcome to the Forestry Forum. 

You can correct your pics by going to your gallery, and there you will find the edit button to rotate them right side up.  

Interesting tree formations.

[Walnut Beast]

Look forward to seeing it opened up 👍

[Prizl tha Chizl]

Black walnut. 24"dbh That first crotch is almost 16' up. I noticed the woodpecker hole near the top last winter. We hire a mill every few years and use all of our wood, we don't sell any logs. I'm done with my looking for this round and will have the mill out soon, and am trying to decide if this should go on the stack now or later. If I mill it now I'll have to stack it outside for a year or two, if I mill it later I might be able to put it right inside.tu

[Prizl tha Chizl]

 

 

[IndiLina]

Stopped by my tract in Indiana to try to come up with a plan of what to harvest first.   
Here are some pics of the contenders.  
35" dbh Burr Oak 


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32" hickory.   


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Not a likely contender, but here's a 30" black walnut.  


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[beenthere]

Nice trees. 
Hopefully you cut the vines growing on them, after you took their pictures. They will cause havoc with the tree tops and could cause decline in tree growth. 

[IndiLina]

Nice trees.
Hopefully you cut the vines growing on them, after you took their pictures. They will cause havoc with the tree tops and could cause decline in tree growth.

Yeah, I spent quite a bit of time cutting vines yesterday. Had to get the chainsaw out for some of them. If you look at the left side of the hickory pic, you'll see one cut in half. Waiting to see if I'll break out today from poison ivy. 

[OutlawB52]

Never thought of developing a hit list . I must be getting old. lol . I love it . 

[ehp]

WB . I get lots of trees sent to me on the hit list and some are pretty nice oak or walnut but the Hit List usually means I got hydro wires to miss. Houses. Barns or hwys lol  stuff like that 😂 

[Walnut Beast]

Funny ehp 😂.

Big bummer on my biggest Elm. The elm disease got it. It looked to be fine earlier. Had mulched by it. I figured that helped things. Then I remembered last month we had some extremely high flood waters come through the creek area and was wondering if that wet creek bottom stressed the tree enough to kill it. Some dead ones around it also. Probably do some big slabs. It won't go to waste

 

 

  

[nativewolf]

Sorry about that Elm.  What a disastrous thing we've been for our forests.  Elm, Ash, Chestnut, Sassafras, Beech, Hemlock, Oak decline all over.  

[Hogdaddy]

Division of forestry here talks about the Ash dying, but when you mention Red Oak to them, they seem not to be very interested. I see a lot of Red Oak here dying......

[nativewolf]

Lots of foresters seem to have head in the sand on Oak issues.  I think the black and red oak stands we have in this area are all going.  Like every stand.  We thin to remove as much competition as possible, we remove anything with a dead twig in overstory/crown.  Even then the remaining ones don't always look super 3 years later.  Some look ok but many...meh.  

The larger problem is that our silvicultural needs don't match marketing ability of the industry.  So RO has been languishing (mostly) for 2 decades and lots of it needs attention.  No doubt leaving as much as we (foresters at large) are means we are promoting the various pathogens we are worried about.  

[Walnut Beast]

Many big pretty boy to nasty big gnarly monarch Black Walnut trees with defects that some people snub that I have a soft spot for are on the hit list and not the sawmill for quite some time. Many trees in 90- 100+ circumference range like this one.

 

[Walnut Beast]

Funny ehp 😂.

Big bummer on my biggest Elm. The elm disease got it. It looked to be fine earlier. Had mulched by it. I figured that helped things. Then I remembered last month we had some extremely high flood waters come through the creek area and was wondering if that wet creek bottom stressed the tree enough to kill it. Some dead ones around it also. Probably do some big slabs. It won't go to waste

 

 

  

I put the tape on the big elm and it's 138" circumference Luckily it's close to the field edge. Not so lucky on seven black gold trees that are going to be a absolute bearcat to get on the other side of the creek bottom only accessible from one side that all range from 93- 110 circumference. Many many trees in the 70 to 80 range that can stay. Luckily the rest of the big ones I'm going to take are on the same side that are in the same range. 

[ehp]

WB , I cut a walnut today that sure was heavy  but not to pretty  :D, lots of limbs growing off the trunk was up about 30 feet , 12 ft butt log made my skidsteer back wheels come off the grounds so not huge but good size

[rdobb13]

 
it's on the list, probably out of jealousy. 
 

 

 

[beenthere]

rdobb
Are we supposed to detect a difference between those three pics?  Not seeing any myself.  

[rdobb13]

rdobb
Are we supposed to detect a difference between those three pics?  Not seeing any myself.  

No, just my general lack of knowledge on how posting pictures works.  My apologies. 

[beenthere]

Not a problem, and you can modify your post and remove the two extra ones. Had me curious and was trying to detect a difference.  8)

[cutterboy]

Three for the price of one. :D

[Walnut Beast]

No shortage of character trees. This guy may be on the list. He's 110" circumference with a massive crotch. Two good sections of crotch wood

 

[Walnut Beast]

Some pictures of Black Gold on the hit list all shapes and sizes from nice to unruly. 
 Might not look like it but it's 30" plus 
And many many little trees in the 20" plus range that can be left alone 
 
 

[Walnut Beast]

Going to be a bearcat and some nasty places to winch several out on the other side of the creek that are big in several places like this. I'll cut a few of these 5 70"+ trees that are all close together . Love the warmer weather in the 40s. For a few days