zogger
Tree Freak
Was out walking the dogs in the rain and mud and thought I'd snap a few pics of my next score to come. I'll have to walk in and drop and buck, then let them sit until I can get a vehicle down there to haul the rounds out..but it is something to do now with cutting wood. First pic is the last of the tornado hickory. I have been gradually knocking the bark off, so when I finish dropping it, it won't kill my chains. Got it pretty clean over the summer just fooling with it five minutes here and there with my cheapo axe. Plus, gets rid of the bugs that live under the bark. That's about at around 18 inches diameter at the narrow end to the left. Plenty of wood left in that guy... In front of it is a crooked decent ash which has to come down anyway, explanation to follow. I'm standing in the creek now, when it rains *real* hard, it is several feet deep over my head at this spot, and like close to being whitewater.
Standing in the creek looking downstream..right at the limits of my rubber boots right now, heh...
And this is why I will take that ash down, it is gonna come down anyway when this monster falls on it, I think, but am not sure, it is an old walnut. It's big. and near dead, and leaning hard right at those other trees. So I'll take the hickory and ash, then go ahead and drop Mr. Monster..then figure out how to deal with it......should be interesting...I might wait on that one until I get a 90cc saw with a much larger bar.....all I have is 20s now, on my 245A and 3400s. It's about twice as thick as that hickory.
Coupla bonus pics, another handy monstah on that same creek right nearby (I am just up from where the creek goes into the swamp), old red oak with long ago buried fence in it, you can just see the lines a little in the pic if ya squint hard. The top fenceline mark is over my head now, it grew up that far. Leaving that one alone, no need to drop it, still healthy, etc. Need the trees by the creek anyway for summer shade and to help with erosion. ..The axe is three foot (close to it?), for some scale.
Standing in the creek looking downstream..right at the limits of my rubber boots right now, heh...
And this is why I will take that ash down, it is gonna come down anyway when this monster falls on it, I think, but am not sure, it is an old walnut. It's big. and near dead, and leaning hard right at those other trees. So I'll take the hickory and ash, then go ahead and drop Mr. Monster..then figure out how to deal with it......should be interesting...I might wait on that one until I get a 90cc saw with a much larger bar.....all I have is 20s now, on my 245A and 3400s. It's about twice as thick as that hickory.
Coupla bonus pics, another handy monstah on that same creek right nearby (I am just up from where the creek goes into the swamp), old red oak with long ago buried fence in it, you can just see the lines a little in the pic if ya squint hard. The top fenceline mark is over my head now, it grew up that far. Leaving that one alone, no need to drop it, still healthy, etc. Need the trees by the creek anyway for summer shade and to help with erosion. ..The axe is three foot (close to it?), for some scale.
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