Different Stumps?

[smokechase II]

Agenda

"What did you mean by throwing out the 90 degree notch when doing the bore cut agenda?"

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I meant, in this instance, throw out the boring back-cut.

90 degree face is a good thing here.

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Plantbio:

Look, life is complicated.
If anybody knows that it would be a biologist.

You may find this works well on a hardwood species.
It is really nice to limb and firewood buck a tree mostly off the ground.

 

[PB]

Plantbio:

Look, life is complicated.
If anybody knows that it would be a biologist.

You may find this works well on a hardwood species.
It is really nice to limb and firewood buck a tree mostly off the ground.

hahahaha, no doubt.

I really don't have a lot of use for this method personally. I skid my logs out to the wood pile most of the time. I just kept hearing about the firewood stump. Maybe I will give it a go next time. I have a big cucumber magnolia that needs to come down in March that would be a good specimen to experiment with.

 

[Metals406]

I was thinking about this again. Often times, whether the butt stays on the stump or not, a heavy headed (lots of thick dense limbs) conifer will have limbs that hold the trunk up anyway. I will limb the top and sides, and leave the bottom limbs that are supporting the trunk. You don't want to leave only limbs that are straight down, this will make the tree tippy.

Once it's limbed out, you start cutting your rounds, and when one of your rounds has a limb on it... Bump it off the round. This works well on Ponderosa, and spruce. Marginal effect on pi$$-fir, tamarack, lodgepole, some Doug fir, western hemlock, and white pine.

The majority of firewood I get is doug fir and tamarack. I had more spruce the last couple years, due to blowdown on my property. I do like lodgepole for firewood, cause most of the tree is kept in rounds... No splitting. Rounds burn longer anyway, which I like.

I've never understood why most guys around here want to cut the biggest snag they can find. The darn things are 4'-5' DBH, and a huge pain to yard to the road. Then, it's harder to split--and you don't get any rounds for overnight burning. I'll take 12"-24" DBH all day long, and have more wood at the end of the day, than the guys chasing the huge snags. These are the same monkeys, that will stop cutting at 10", and leave it there to rot. :censored:

Must be a 'size matters' thing.

 

[Burvol]

I agree Metals, but what's even better (in my area) is buckskin dead Broadleaf Maple. GAME OVER!!!! 70% maple, 30% Doug Fir is the optimal mix.

 

[Cedarkerf]

I agree Metals, but what's even better (in my area) is buckskin dead Broadleaf Maple. GAME OVER!!!! 70% maple, 30% Doug Fir is the optimal mix.

Except this year add 25% madrone

 

[Burvol]

How is Madrone? I usually only burn it when I make a fire out of it Sturgeon fishing.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Makes a nice coal bed last long time hot and the smoke smells good takes a good while to season tho, Cuts pretty easy green but chatter your teeth dry.

 

[Metals406]

That's where you fellas are lucky... I'm in the heart of the Rockies. There ain't no hardwood to be had... Well, except in the city limits... Then it's fought over by everyone and their little sister. It won't be used for firewood either. A 100+ year old maple or oak is scooped up by woodworkers. A good friend of my dad's is a gunsmith here. He got his paws on a really beautiful old maple some years ago... He saved it to make gun stocks.

 

[Gologit]

Makes a nice coal bed last long time hot and the smoke smells good takes a good while to season tho, Cuts pretty easy green but chatter your teeth dry.

+1 I burn a lot of madrone and I make it a point to buck it when it's green. Split it when it's green, too. Otherwise it just shatters.