What are you cutting 2024? - pics welcome

[David B]

Hm

A few short felling vids...guess I didn't embed properly 

[aigheadish]

In an effort to improve our view in the backyard I took down a living Mulberry tree over the weekend. I limbed it and saved the trunk for future use, it has a couple crotches which may make for interesting lumber. The trunk was only maybe 6-8 feet long before it split off into a couple big branches. I assume the whole tree to be around 50 feet tall. I'm not a big fan of cutting good, healthy trees, but it does improve the view a lot. 

[Nebraska]

That's a good sized Muhlberry. 

[BargeMonkey]

5 days off, shut out for deer season. Finish my log job I get back and go to the other side. 

You ever wanna feel like the poor people, drive to Norwalk CT 😆. Worth the money but I got the feeling they had more money than common sense, had 3x sets of them.

[ehp]

Barge is still killing it making the huge coin while the rest of us starve to death slowly . Snowing and raining here , its a mess 

[ehp]

Barge if you want someone to test out skidsteer fork setups just send them here , I have only broken 1 fork and that was shoving down trying to get under logs in the cold , now breaking the frame the folks hook to I'm a champ at that . I get about 18 months maybe on a set of 5500 pound fork setup before the frame cracks everywhere and I can but a new complete setup cheaper than just the frame 

[BargeMonkey]

Ed I'm so poor have an OnlyFans page here soon, we know your the one making the real money on here.

 Doesn't look like a boat to me 🤦. My light plant sat on my job, drive 4hrs home to hook up power and head back down.

[SwampDonkey]

You're getting quite a dump of snow down there. Just 3 days of rain up here on the tundra. No warmer than 42° though. Only 30's by mid week.

[barbender]

Barge you can use that picture for your Christmas card😊

[NewYankeeSawmill]

Was down in a little town called Soddy-Daisy TN all week, nice 4-day job, guy wants me back in a couple weeks. Worth the drive (1.5 hrs from house), great customer. Travel time was paid.... The Watts Bar Nuke plant was about halfway.



Started w/ a bunch of white and red oaks that the city dropped off on his farm 6 months ago.







We had company the whole time, every morning, and every afternoon. Saw lots of footprints in the mud/dust around the mill as well.



He's got some walnuts for my next... Norwood's BlueFlex blades did not perform well on the oak at all... very chattery running through the wood. Did not hold up at all. Their standard 10-degree blade performed better, lasted longer. Ordered a pack of the 7-degree blades for next trip down there.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Barge you can use that picture for your Christmas card😊

Man Barbender, you got me thinking.  In the words of todays youngsters, I bet a Barge Christmas card would be EPIC!!!

[barbender]

Fr fr😂

[cutterboy]

I've been cutting white birch. I cut down two, hauled the logs off to the barn yard and moved the tops to an open area where I could work on them.


Then I went for a third tree..



HUNG UP! That tree should have busted through those small pine branches. It's so annoying!



I hooked a chain to the tree and with the tractor pulled it off the stump but the butt sunk into the soft ground and wouldn't budge. I turned the tractor around and with the FEL gave the tree a little push and it came right down.


With the butt end up in the air I was able to slide the tractor forks under it and cut an eight foot log and drop it onto the forks.



I added the 2nd log and a couple of firewood pieces and brought them to the barn yard then returned to get the rest of the tree. (an eight foot and two five foot logs.)




There is another birch out there I want to get tomorrow if we don't get too much rain today.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!


  Keep on cutting.....Cutter

[g_man]

You cut some nice WB Cutter. I enjoy all you pictures. Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone else. Still cutting fir here but I will switch to firewood with the snow cover we are getting today.




I have a neighbor who loves to make wreath decorations. Some years she makes a big one in the shape of a horses neck and head that they put on the gable end. I brought her a top and a choker bundle of boughs.





gg

[Magicman]

Cutter & gg, I love seeing what both of you two old farts do. 

[g_man]

I figured you would call us young'uns.

gg

[Magicman]

Yup, at heart anyway.  I am just glad to still be in the group and still fartin'. 

[aigheadish]

How does the white Birch hold up? I have a few big logs in the pile that I haven't looked at or messed with for probably 2 years. Is it decent or interesting lumber? A neighbor cut a few down and I asked if I could have them. At the low, low cost of them being covered in poison ivy, which I contracted. I'm thinking they are 3ish feet in diameter... 

[Jeff]

White birch probably rots as fast as any hardwood. The bark is rot resist.

[aigheadish]

Hey! I got one! It's sitting over there with all the bark, and poison ivy, still on it. I'll go slice it up one of these days. 

[Resonator]

Birch makes pretty good lumber, recommend you use lots of stickers and put weight on it drying. Yes water tight bark. Blown down trees will rot before others, and why the bark was used for canoes. Also I split every piece of firewood before stacking it to dry.

[SwampDonkey]

Yes, the bark lasts longer than the wood. If left on the ground a few months it spalts and soon after goes punky. Lasts about as long as aspen. Hard maple holds up longer up here as far as being usable for firewood after 2 years. I have one for firewood, and the smaller limbs have an orange fungus growing on it like someone sprayed some of that kids bottled silicone we used to have 50 years ago. :D Was cut last fall and laid until July before I got it under cover. The bigger pieces were fine, but spalted. I like peeling the bark for fire starter, burns a lot longer and hotter than paper. I don't take bark from live trees unless it mostly separated and hanging.

[cutterboy]

aigheadish, if that birch has sat with it's bark on for two years it might be pretty punky. You can give it a try and see what you get. White birch is pretty wood and many woodworkers like to work with it.

[GRANITEstateMP]

g man, if the neighbor makes the horse head and neck wreath, I'd love to see a pic

[Nebraska]

Yeah that sounds pretty interesting to me as well.