Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

Hey Chipper , take a blower to the fire if you want to burn it fast and it makes for less smoke .

Thanks Dan.
I have a large backpack blower, add a little accelerant hit it with the blower, and things happen pretty quick for sure .
There's about half of the last round worth left of it now. I just put half of one(the root ball split between the two leads when I pushed it over) in there from the ones I just cut down, and I put a bunch of other brush and stuff on there that has been laying out back for a while. Hopefully I should be able to get all the brush cleaned up today and another cherry stump on there tonight, maybe 2, it's getting all cleaned up back there .
Guess I didn't pst this earlier .
No more brush on the pile today, maybe tomorrow.

 

[dancan]

If they were closer ....
https://www.kijiji.ca/v-free-stuff/...od/1291628551?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true

 

[chipper1]

Hey @Cowboy254 I need your help.
Since you have much experience with trees that want to kill you .
This is at a property a buddy bought to flip.
He asked me to look at it for him.
After talking with him a bit I could tell he had no knowledge of what was involved in removing this tree or what that would cost .
So I asked him how much he figured a "tree service would charge to remove it, he said $500, and I said (he's a good friend). I then told him he should get some bids on it(this helps someone to be more educated, and also to appreciate what you do more), I also told him to rent a 60' lift it cost around 6-700 and for an 80' it's 9-1000 a day . Personally I would just trim it up nice and get it off the house, remove all the massive killer thorns from it up to where a potential buyer would see them and, that's just not what I would want them walking around the rest of the house thinking about .

 

[svk]

Just trim it to look good and move on!

Semi rant:
I hate when developers remove every tree from a lot. Leave the nice ones and let the owner decide what he/she wants.

Our neighbor at the house I'm selling is developing his empty lots and cut nearly every tree. The few evergreens he left are so ridiculously over trimmed that they will never come back to look decent.

If I'm buying a house I'd much rather have a few shade trees than some peon nursery tree that won't throw a shadow until my elementary aged kids are out of school.

 

[JustJeff]

Sure would keep the peeping toms from climbing up to look in a window!

 

[JustJeff]

Got up this morning and split for a couple hours and finished up the wood I moved last night. Then I cut up a whole elm tree and got it waiting at the splitter. Age and experience is telling me to take a break so I'm going to listen to myself..for now.

 

[chipper1]

I hear you Steve, I've never seen a peon tree . The thing is the millennials want a house ready to go and are buying in this area as does much of the market as well as many of the financial organizations. So one of the objectives is to make it 100% move in ready, with no work needed in the near future. The tree will compromise the roof, the tiered yard, the driveway, the basement, and the house in general if something were to happen to the tree. I've talked to him about removing the smaller trees which are growing besides it and into the cable lines(got that out already). There are other junk trees we will be removing on the other side of the driveway, and a huge nasty chestnut(I think) in the back that needs to at minimum be trimmed back from the house too. The large one with the thorns is presently a highway to the roof for a family of coons that are living in the attic .
I've already removed a 14" box elder from the left side of the driveway(it's on the bottom left of the above picture) that was closing the driveway off to where you could not access it.

Jeff I didn't think of that , situational awareness right .

Here's what the driveway looks like before and after. There was 8" of gravel and sand on the back side of the sidewalk, sure hope the city isn't upset we were working on it. He's waiting for the paving bids to start coming in now, curious as to how much they want.

 

[dancan]

I had a few hours to spare this afternoon so I went over to houselot to drop them maple , maple , birch

It was a bit warm but I could get a bit of refreshment after every tree I dropped

No big spikes that could kill me or basketball sized pinatas but I had to fight through this stuff every step of the way .
A tank and a half and I was done

 

[svk]

I hear you Steve, I've never seen a peon tree . The thing is the millennials want a house ready to go and are buying in this area as does much of the market as well as many of the financial organizations. So one of the objectives is to make it 100% move in ready, with no work needed in the near future. The tree will compromise the roof, the tiered yard, the driveway, the basement, and the house in general if something were to happen to the tree. I've talked to him about removing the smaller trees which are growing besides it and into the cable lines(got that out already). There are other junk trees we will be removing on the other side of the driveway, and a huge nasty chestnut(I think) in the back that needs to at minimum be trimmed back from the house too. The large one with the thorns is presently a highway to the roof for a family of coons that are living in the attic .
I've already removed a 14" box elder from the left side of the driveway(it's on the bottom left of the above picture) that was closing the driveway off to where you could not access it.

Jeff I didn't think of that , situational awareness right .

Here's what the driveway looks like before and after. There was 8" of gravel and sand on the back side of the sidewalk, sure hope the city isn't upset we were working on it. He's waiting for the paving bids to start coming in now, curious as to how much they want.
View attachment 598418 View attachment 598419

Much improved. Sensibly I may add.

 

[dancan]

The developer will haul out all the stems and give me a shout
Oh ya , I need some tree id help , there was this one weird looking clump of trees that were foreign to me , weird bark and really strange leaves .

6" to 8" stems , no split wood so I'm happy .
Oops , forgot the leaf pic .
Really strange leaf .

 

[svk]

Strange lol.

Looks like tree of heaven. I'd just let him plow it over.

 

[LondonNeil]

Holy smoke! Is that some Oak? Honest question, as real Oak from England (and Turkey/European) has curved lobes, but I'm guessing you have pointy ones.

How does it smell?

 

[tpence2177]

A new bench is on my bench! My Son In Law (they are remodding the kitchen) was throwing out the old kitchen table, so I told him to throw it my way. With the leaf it is 3 X 5. So I added a shelf under it, and now it holds 10 saws and still has the top free! I like it!

I use an old metal teachers desk for my bench. Has lots of drawers to hold tools and parts. Top is laminated metal so those magnetic parts holders stick right to it


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[dancan]

Yup Neil , real white oak , smells like oak .
Only 15 minutes from home , who knew ?
Lol

 

[chipper1]

The developer will haul out all the stems and give me a shout
Oh ya , I need some tree id help , there was this one weird looking clump of trees that were foreign to me , weird bark and really strange leaves .

6" to 8" stems , no split wood so I'm happy .
Oops , forgot the leaf pic .
Really strange leaf .

Urn that's crap before it spreads, that's an invasive species .

 

[chipper1]

Much improved. Sensibly I may add.

It looks amazing on my laptop, I was off on how deep the gravel was at the bottom. When you look at the cement cornerstone you can see it was easily a foot, an American one lol.
We will be doing a lot more to open it up, when finished it will have a lot more curb appeal as far as the driveway and that side of the house.
Yes "centsable" as he needs as much help as possible keeping the budget on track, and a short time frame as well. I'm hoping he can sell it before winter. I also have concerns that the economy in the US will be slowing, as a vet with enough issues I'd hate to see him get stuck with it.

 

[Logger nate]

Well it's not oak, but as close as we get here, very nice tamarack (larch). Rare find heretop was rotten but bottom 3/4 was very good my buddy Scott broke his winch line trying to pull it whole so we ended up cutting it in half I told him there's no way we can get it in one load, he said "can't leave any here someone might take it" He got it all on there No room for the saws so they got to ride up front Sure liking the new 385, don't think it was even broke in yet, keeps getting stronger the longer I run it.

 

[JustJeff]

I posted this one already but I wanted to say "Now you see it, now you don't ". Lol. The split pile is growing. I have this winters and next winters wood split now. Just need to stack it up.

 

[MustangMike]

Yup Neil , real white oak , smells like oak .
Only 15 minutes from home , who knew ?
Lol

That is Red Oak, but it is Oak!!! Generally, White Oak has rounded lobes (on the leaf) and Red Oak has pointed, but there are many varieties of both Red & White Oak (Like Chestnut Oak is part of the White Oak family).

Most (about 80%) of the Oak I get is in the Red Oak family (which includes Red Oak, Black Oak & Pin Oak, etc).

Red Oak is the most popular wood for flooring, White Oak was used a lot for ship building, and is still used for the locks on the Erie Canal.

 

[Greenmachine]

Well it's not oak, but as close as we get here, very nice tamarack (larch). Rare find hereView attachment 598462top was rotten but bottom 3/4 was very good View attachment 598463 my buddy Scott broke his winch line trying to pull it whole do we ended up cutting it in halfView attachment 598464 I told him there's no way we can get it in one load, he said "can't leave any here someone might take it"View attachment 598465 He got it all on thereView attachment 598466 No room for the saws so they got to ride up front View attachment 598468 Sure liking the new 385, don't think it was even broke in yet, keeps getting more power the longer I run it.

What kind of truck is that?!