Black locust score

[Cheesecutter]

I was invited to cut with Jonsered14 at a 350 acre farm he has permission to cut on. He was asked to remove some gnarly box elder and mulberry trees to give walnut trees more room to grow in the former 1/2 acre garden area. It adjoined a 6 acre plot the landowners grandfather had planted black locust trees to use as fenceposts back in the 1940s. It was an overgrown tangle of thornbushes, fallen/leaning/dead/storm damaged trees, old farm machinery, and weeds.

 

[Greenthorn]

Black locust heaven, been cutting for about the last month straight. Make sure you keep the Mulberry too, it's everybit as good for heat as locust...maybe better!

 

[mainewoods]

Nice. Nothing like a good challenge to keep you honed to a razor sharp edge.

 

[Cheesecutter]

After the landowner was satisfied with the clean up and burning of the garden area, she asked if we could clean up the locust patch.

 

[morewood]

Looking at those pics reminds me of my friend telling me I need a firewood intervention.......just can't have enough.

Shea

 

[Cheesecutter]

I'll post more pics tonight. They are going to hire me to clear some waterways and trim some fencelines. I get some wood and get paid to cut it. Gotta love it.

 

[mainewoods]

Love it when that happens!

 

[zogger]

Looking at those pics reminds me of my friend telling me I need a firewood intervention.......just can't have enough.

Shea

Got a five foot diameter oak coming down in the front yard this summer..just sayin. Got 5 cord just from the little branches, and the big branches are still on it. Only bummer is joe boss wants it cut off 5-6 foot up the trunk, then he wants to hire a carver to make something with the stump intact.

 

[morewood]

Got a five foot diameter oak coming down in the front yard this summer..just sayin. Got 5 cord just from the little branches, and the big branches are still on it. Only bummer is joe boss wants it cut off 5-6 foot up the trunk, then he wants to hire a carver to make something with the stump intact.

Well, at least it will provide something. Look at this way, most trees that age/size have a huge variety of nails, wire, etc in that portion of the trunk. smile when if they get to sharpen dull tools for every piece of metal they hit.

Shea

 

[Wood Doctor]

Well, at least it will provide something. Look at this way, most trees that age/size have a huge variety of nails, wire, etc in that portion of the trunk. smile when if they get to sharpen dull tools for every piece of metal they hit.

Shea

Good post, Shea. I just ran into three 10-d nails while noodle cutting some "gorgeous" white ash from a residential tree. These nails sheared off five cutters from one 20" chain and all were embedded near the center of a 75-year old tree. The cost of that "free" wood suddenly went up.

 

[peterc38]

Nice score

 

[zogger]

Well, at least it will provide something. Look at this way, most trees that age/size have a huge variety of nails, wire, etc in that portion of the trunk. smile when if they get to sharpen dull tools for every piece of metal they hit.

Shea

Gonna be me cutting the dang thing! Ordering two more 36 inch loops, and one more each 24 and 28. Gonna be prepared with sharp loops that day.

 

[zogger]

Good post, Shea. I just ran into three 10-d nails while noodle cutting some "gorgeous" white ash from a residential tree. These nails sheared off five cutters from one 20" chain and all were embedded near the center of a 75-year old tree. The cost of that "free" wood suddenly went up.

I am 100% gonna put fresh batts in the metal detector and run it all over that thing, especially where the felling cuts will be. Might not work, but it has saved me some when doing fencelines and smaller trees.

 

[Wood Doctor]

To give you another idea about residential tree value, a nearby town is removing about 100 large trees to widen streets and offered all of them to loggers and the local sawmill for processing. They were turned down. The mill said that their past experience with residential trees having embedded metal has cost them so much money with saw blades, down time, and equipment repairs that they cannot afford to process the "free" trees.

 

[Cheesecutter]

Got crazy busy at work and clean the fence lines and storm damage, but here's a few more pics. The first couple pics are 85 willow and cottonwood trees that I cut it 4 hours. My drop zone was 15-20 feet wide and all but 2 hit it.

 

[Cheesecutter]

We ended up taking down over 600 trees ranging from 4-24 inches and thousands of saplings, thornbushes, and grapevines. The landowners are very impressed with how quickly we cleared 3 miles of fence line.