Author Topic: logging in the back yard (Read 5669 times)

spencerhenry · « **Reply #20 on:** April 03, 2009, 05:56:22 PM »

i agree that it is not necessarily twice as old, but i think it is probably substantially older than the small trees. they are all from the same area. i dont know exactly where the tree i counted came from but it was within a maximum of 100yds. i have a handful of over 16" trees, but they are scattered over about a 100yd radius. hopefully they dont die soon, but if one does i will count the rings. maybe i should count one of the 6" trees that are pushing 85' tall.

sjfarkas · « **Reply #21 on:** April 04, 2009, 07:40:56 PM »

Are you able to send these dead trees of to the mill? If not do you have another way of dealing with the logs? The reason why I ask is that our local mill will be shutting down soon and I have seen an increase in bark beetle kill in ponderosa pine and I don't know what to do with all of the dead kills. I need some ideas and I can only use so much lumber myself.

thanks

spencerhenry · « **Reply #22 on:** April 04, 2009, 09:17:42 PM »

there is a mill that buys aspen logs, but they only take green, and it is worth only slightly more than the trucking to get it there.

sjfarkas · « **Reply #23 on:** April 05, 2009, 10:25:58 AM »

do you chip them or do you burn them for firewood or do you have a nice size deck that's going to rot?

arojay · « **Reply #24 on:** April 05, 2009, 10:54:25 AM »

Spencerhenry, What elevation is treeline where you live?

spencerhenry · « **Reply #25 on:** April 05, 2009, 12:27:25 PM »

i sell firewood. but i only have about 14 cords of logs and 6 cords of split wood. around here i could leave the logs in the deck for at least 3 or 4 years before i had any loss to rot. logs left on the ground in the woods are good for up to 3 years.

treeline here is about 12,100'. i am at 8600'

spencerhenry · « **Reply #26 on:** April 07, 2009, 11:12:39 PM »

if i cut the conks themselves off of the trees that only have one or two, will the tree continue to rot or will the rot stop?
as of today i am at 221 trees, only a handful of green ones with conks, but now that i am beginning to accept that alot of green trees are infected, i will be taking alot of them. cut one tree today, a dead one, that my 20" bar just barely cut through.

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