Big ironwood

[066blaster]

Was out scrounging in our woods to see if I could find something I could burn this winter. We are supposed to get some snow tomorrow and figured after that everything will be pretty wet. I found the biggest tallest ironwood I've ever seen. Has a few pockets of decay but still really solid.

 

[mn woodcutter]

Was out scrounging in our woods to see if I could find something I could burn this winter. We are supposed to get some snow tomorrow and figured after that everything will be pretty wet. I found the biggest tallest ironwood I've ever seen. Has a few pockets of decay but still really solid.View attachment 462467

Be careful in that woods! It looks like you caught the shadow of a squatch in that picture!

 

[svk]

Nice scrounge.

I have only cut ironwood once, it was on my friend's property in upstate NY. The 5" tree was victim of a larger blowdown of a different species and the whole thing was across a walking trail.

According to my logger friend we have both ironwood and rock elm up here but they are very few and far between. Occasionally you come across a pure stand of either of them he said.

 

[Brushpile]

Big Iron.....would.

 

[066blaster]

I decided to back down into the woods and pull the top part out since it was near the lot line.

 

[066blaster]

 

[svk]

beautiful woods there!

 

[BoBDoG2o02]

Nice blue tractor, they make them 10 miles down the road from me....

 

[066blaster]

Ended up with over a face cord. Hauled it 1/4 mile from my dad's house to mine, stacked in the garage and I am burning some as I'm typing this.

 

[066blaster]

I'm gonna have to scrounge some more of this stuff It's like burning coal. Hot and last for ever. We have quite a few of them on the ground.

 

[woodfarmer]

Now you need a skidding winch for the back of that tractor

 

[Gypo Logger]

Nice find, but watch the burn, it can turn your stove cherry red. Probably the most btu's of any domestic wood.
Here's an oldtimer beside the biggest ironwood I've seen.

 

[066blaster]

Nice find, but watch the burn, it can turn your stove cherry red. Probably the most btu's of any domestic wood.
Here's an oldtimer beside the biggest ironwood I've seen.View attachment 462627

Wow! That is big

 

[Gypo Logger]

Wow! That is big

As far as I know, it's still standing. I found it in a bush I logged in 2001, about 60 miles north of Toronto.
I have also cut Ironwood where it existed in pure stands.

 

[066blaster]

We have a lot of beech and iron wood in one section of our woods. I would like to cut most of the beech out of there. They are ugly

 

[c5rulz]

I worked 32 hours felling trees for a timber stand improvement project. The forester that marked the trees said these 2 Iron wood were the biggest he had seen in the whole county. I killed em.

 

[svk]

I worked 32 hours felling trees for a timber stand improvement project. The forester that marked the trees said these 2 Iron wood were the biggest he had seen in the whole county. I killed em.

Did you get the opportunity to burn them?

 

[c5rulz]

Did you get the opportunity to burn them?

Nope just let them lay. The landowner will probably work them up. The job was to just cut every marked tree and treat with Tordon to kill. I didn't think the Ironwood were that big compared to other trees but they apparently just don't get big normally. There were a ton of them in the 8-10" range.

Here is a bunch of pics from the job I posted a while back.

http://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/timber-stand-impovment-or-sport-tree-felling.279144/

 

[GVS]

Nice scrounge.

I have only cut ironwood once, it was on my friend's property in upstate NY. The 5" tree was victim of a larger blowdown of a different species and the whole thing was across a walking trail.

According to my logger friend we have both ironwood and rock elm up here but they are very few and far between. Occasionally you come across a pure stand of either of them he said.

I'm in NNY and your friend is right.Not all that much around and not much bigger than what you show in the picture.Seems to me someone posted a pic. of one awhile back and it was the biggest I've ever seen.Looked to be about 10" in diameter.I've seen small stands of them but only 6 to 10 trees.

 

[cantoo]

We have Ironwood here too in a few spots. I have no intention of cutting these down. I would think they are some of the largest ones around here.