Whole different experience cutting firewood all day today compared to Saturday. Damn chilly today. Moving all of those fat oak rounds all by my lonesome kicked my ass, but the hard part is all done. Dreading getting out of bed tomorrow.
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How you feeling this morning, Jamie?Whole different experience cutting firewood all day today compared to Saturday. Damn chilly today. Moving all of those fat oak rounds all by my lonesome kicked my ass, but the hard part is all done. Dreading getting out of bed tomorrow.
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Considerably better than expected, actually. I guess all the exercise and stretching helps. Still, I'm doing next to nothing today but putzing around in the kitchen. Rendering beef tallow from trimmings from 3 briskets and packaging all of my squirrels today. I still have a sizeable Red Maple blowdown to cut up, but that is easy shit compared to large diameter Oaks. I probably should not being shit like that by myself. I need to make some younger friends, lol.
I've sold one load of firewood 15 years ago. $100 for prime seasoned oak and locust. I hope to never do it again. It's far to much work for the return income if you have little to no equipment. If a person was set up with equipment to only have to cut logs and not touch any wood (maybe limb wood only) itd be a different story. Prime truck loads of firewood are going for 200 dollars at the area auction currently.
Two heaping 8' truckloads cut and split is a heck of a day of labor. no fricking way id give that up for 400 let alone 170 if only using saw and splitter.
Two heaping 8' truckloads cut and split is a heck of a day of labor. no fricking way id give that up for 400 let alone 170 if only using saw and splitter.
Agreed and exactly why I am thinking about getting a few more loads of the stuff. Even with equipment, that is very reasonable to me!
I believe I've crested the halfway point but looking at a different angle it's still not close enough to get bust ass excited yet. the quest of the 2winter supply is looking better as I get through the pile. It goes great until you come across a big big one then it's WrestleMania for 30mins......the goal before it gets nice out is to get every piece of fire wood split currently sitting around the firewood area which includes knotty shit I've tossed around for years that I didn't want to mess with....."no piece left behind!!!!" Is the motto...
Done minus logs and part of a Chinese elm that died in my front yard. Should have 2 winters worth. My dog needs to skip a lot a meals....
One beech and one silver maple on the ground to allow more sun for the kill plot. Didnt take a pic at finish for the day, but only 10% branches left on the maple and the rest makes for easy cutting of main branches tomm.
I can't find my tree book, is this dogwood? I think Ive seen pics you've posted when flowering.
Sort of looks like a limb off a maple. Silver maple? Hard to tell. The pics below you can see some unhealthy limbs with the bark missing. Looks a little similar.
Hauled some of that and a little walnut out of Mom's house tonight. New truck broke 1200 miles on the way over. Was planning on checking siding and shingles from the wind, doing some basic chores for her (trash, mail, etc.), and maybe picking up a few sticks. Asplunde had come thru and trimmed power line right of ways. We will be mowing in the next few weeks and I'm not sure it will be dry enough to back into her lawn without rutting it up before then. Didn't want to mow around it all spring. Didn't want to carry it to the road. Lol
Better wash the ol truck and park it a few weeks to rest it. They don't build them like the old trucks.
Hauled some of that and a little walnut out of Mom's house tonight. New truck broke 1200 miles on the way over. Was planning on checking siding and shingles from the wind, doing some basic chores for her (trash, mail, etc.), and maybe picking up a few sticks. Asplunde had come thru and trimmed power line right of ways. We will be mowing in the next few weeks and I'm not sure it will be dry enough to back into her lawn without rutting it up before then. Didn't want to mow around it all spring. Didn't want to carry it to the road. Lol
Better wash the ol truck and park it a few weeks to rest it. They don't build them like the old trucks.
I generally only see small ones. Seem to be extremely numerous around here only stretching up half to 3/4 up in the canopy. They tend to fork at 8' or less. Pink inside with whitewood outside. They seem to have thorns when young. My mind thinks flowering dogwood but I can't remember . Anyway they burn pretty well seem more dence than walnut. Be good to get fires going quickly. 
got a great variety of Ohio hardwood for future burns, with walnut, cherry, (mystery dw?) Hackberry, mulberry, locust, swamp white oak I think, pin oak and hickory. I saw today I lost 2 ironwoods and another cherry with the latest wind to add to the pile.
got a great variety of Ohio hardwood for future burns, with walnut, cherry, (mystery dw?) Hackberry, mulberry, locust, swamp white oak I think, pin oak and hickory. I saw today I lost 2 ironwoods and another cherry with the latest wind to add to the pile.
With that description it is definitely not silver maple. Lol
Nice haul though. Great assortment of good firewood.
Nice haul though. Great assortment of good firewood.