Large Hickery take Down Over House

[John Paul Sanborn]

You need to match the rope to the pullies, or vice versa.

Ropes to guy your spar so you don't blow it out with a piece over the roof.

Make sure the rope is plenty long so you cna slack it and move it if need be. You might want to go with a strong hollow braid for economy.

 

[Ryan Willock]

You almost have to give hickory away!! Nobody really wants it, at least thats the way it is around here.

 

[Tim Gardner]

Jim, check with restaurants that cook with wood or guys who sell firewood to them. Here in Myrtle Beach I climbed for a guy who would deliver two or three dump truck loads at a time.

 

[geofore]

hickory

I'd rate hickory right up there with locust and elm for the wear and tear it does on the chains. Keep a file handy to tickle the chain. The bark is tough enough to throw sparks and a twist in the grain can do the same. We get bugs in the hickory up here and the branches fail without warning. The bugs get under the bark and eat rings around the branches and they look fine but they fail so test them before you step out on the smaller limbs or make sure you are tied in twice. A little bit of wood can hold a lot so make your cuts clean. The bark can hang on as well, make sure it is cut through. The Amish take them up here to make handles.

 

[Ryan Willock]

Hickory veneer????LOL I wish!!!! The last tract I cut had quite a few nice hickories that wound up as palet grade and pulp because no one else would buy it!

 

[geofore]

bugs/be safe

The bug I could not think of is the twig pruner not the twig girdler. The twig pruner can hollow out a a limb as big as 4" but usually under 2". After spending the winter in the limb it eats it's way through the limb lengthwise, then to finish it off it eats round and round from the inside till the limb falls off. Step on that limb and away you go. Look for limbs on the ground that have been eaten through and fallen or limbs growing in the tree knotted and twisted up,a sign they have been here. With the twig girdler the twigs (under 1") are eaten from the outside in and look like they were cut with a knife. From what I know they are more of a problem down your way than up this way but I've run into them. If you never did a hickory before and you run into these twig pruners you better be tied in because that limb that looked so strong is leaving the tree with you hanging on to thin air. Tie in twice. They like pecan trees also.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Must be because you are so close to Hickory, NC Ryan.

Here it goes for desent money.

Try talking to Mark Winders in Apex. He said he's starting to saw his own sindc the mills were ripping him off on small loads. The numbers I have for hin are
363-2612
669-1278 cell

 

[Ryan Willock]

Johny Cates pays better for hickory around chapel hill than anyone else, at least most of the time! He is in Efland and his number is 919-732-8739

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

sorry, the guy i mentioned works in the Triangle area of NC. I was giving Ryan another outlet.

I doubt it would apy to ship logs up from Columbia to Raleigh