Even though most of my firewood is scrounged, I rarely document it. Just never think or bother to get photos.
But yesterday I was cutting dead pine in the national forest (got a $20 permit) up the road, and realized I should have brought a camera. What I found was two Ponderosa Pines with almost a common root area that had blown over from their perch on a rock outcrop. These two, dead for a year or two, had blown over such that both tops were hung up in a neighboring tree and they were suspended off the ground by numerous limbs stabbed into the ground. The surrounding large rocks were not particularly steady. Pretty much an inherently hazardous situation. The trees were uphill from the road—not a great distance, but farther up steep rocky ground than anyone would want to work to retrieve firewood.
So I set a block in a tree down on the far side of the road and ran my rigging rope through the block and up to the first tree. After severing it from its stump and removing some limbs, I hitched the rope to the tree and other end to my pickup and pulled the tree downhill. To where I could cut and load wood onto the pickup bed. Brought home a full load from the one tree yesterday. Today I took my camera along for the second, smaller tree. So here’s pics:
First, a few rounds of trunk wood in the pickup from yesterday’s load
Then a shot to show snow on the peaks of the continental divide about ten miles from here. (Despite what's up there, we're still having September weather here, unnaturally warm, but I'll leave all such comment for elsewhere.)
Then, the remaining tree in its hung-up situation.
Then a shot of my block in a tree across the road
And a shot of the tree pulled partly down the hill, till a busted limb hung on a rock. I trimmed off remaining limbs and brought it down to roadside.
And then the loaded pickup before I left for home. Quite a smaller load than yesterday.
I see some big birch in there atleast to michigan standards that is.
