You know us western states people are squinting trying to find the monster rounds…
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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You know us western states people are squinting trying to find the monster rounds…
I don’t even call these monster.
Looking closer at the saw you are right . Going to have to mod it to direct it away from me . As it is now the exhaust hits the mill and wood and blasts me
The diversity of what we define "big" as is very interesting. We get a bit of everything over here in the east. Normal can be from 12-28" dbh. Bigger isn't uncommon but not the norm. We get a mix of hard and soft woods, but mostly hard woods. Over on the west coast a 32" tree is little lol. Kinda like how I look at a 938 cat or 624 deere as small loaders, but I worked heavy equipment most my life surrounded by 992's, D11's and other "big" equipment. All a matter of perspective.
Sierra_rider
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Guide to west coast timber sizes:
Small:
Medium:
Big...crappy panorama pic, but old broken top "outlaw" redwood. The oldtimers probably passed it up because of the huge cat face on the side of it and the top, there are even bigger ones in that particular section of woods. This one wasn't that tall, but would probably be 250'+ tall if it still had its top. Those are 30"ish DBH tanoaks next to it for comparison:
Small:
Medium:
Big...crappy panorama pic, but old broken top "outlaw" redwood. The oldtimers probably passed it up because of the huge cat face on the side of it and the top, there are even bigger ones in that particular section of woods. This one wasn't that tall, but would probably be 250'+ tall if it still had its top. Those are 30"ish DBH tanoaks next to it for comparison:
Big for me is 24" hardwoods. Heavy even noodled into 4ths.
In MN we'll occasionally get a 40" pine. Otherwise the only large diameter trees are silver maple or a cottonwood some fool planted near a farm or town.
Some big arse wood !!
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We switched locations closer to civilization and started seeing deer. My son saw three does last night but passed on them, wants his first deer to be a buck. I give him credit for that. I went out today for 3 hours and did not see anything but there were fresh tracks over my tracks from last night. 5 1/2 days left, we'll keep trying.
We switched locations closer to civilization and started seeing deer. My son saw three does last night but passed on them, wants his first deer to be a buck. I give him credit for that. I went out today for 3 hours and did not see anything but there were fresh tracks over my tracks from last night. 5 1/2 days left, we'll keep trying.
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
Was like that at the ranch in Montana. The deer were everywhere and basically tame. Back here in Pennsylvania, it's rare to see a trophy buck that's not on private land.
The biggest I’ve turned into firewood is 60”, both black oak and red fir. Got ten cord out of the red fir.
Crazy to think it was less than 20 years ago when we had so many deer they were allowing 3-5 per person. 3 in the zone that I am now hunting.
Even up in my regular zone it was common to see multiple does with multiple fawns. Lots of twins even triplets.
Even up in my regular zone it was common to see multiple does with multiple fawns. Lots of twins even triplets.
The sad thing is the deer up by me had pretty darn good genetics and when there are only a few deer left the genetic pool gets real small.
Guide to west coast timber sizes:
Small:
Medium:
Big...crappy panorama pic, but old broken top "outlaw" redwood. The oldtimers probably passed it up because of the huge cat face on the side of it and the top, there are even bigger ones in that particular section of woods. This one wasn't that tall, but would probably be 250'+ tall if it still had its top. Those are 30"ish DBH tanoaks next to it for comparison:
Will a tree like that be reproducing? Are there many redwood saplings growing for the future?
Sorry if I sound ignorant. We see the big old trees but I've never seen a young redwood. I hope that they are thriving, not declining.
The thing I found was gnarly, proper crotchety, twisted and generally f***ed up gnarly, doesn't split when wedges either. Now I block these up. I screw my face up enviously when I read someone say, 'i just push rounds like that back in the forest ' as an urbanite getting deliveries from a tree guy I have to either run these bits to the tip, or block them up. Blocking them up is a pita but quicker and uses less fuel than a tip run. I have used 2.5 litres of mix through the Makita just blocking up the unsplitables that I'd set aside from this year's wood deliveries, and still another tank or two to go, but I've given up on wedges. Wedges I've decided, are for really really big rounds that you can't get started.... But even here I tend to apply the 'flake bits off the outside' method. My wedges are gathering dust and rust... Long may they continue!
I don't bother with wedges either. If my splitter can't split it (which is a very rare occurrence.) It's get noodled into manageable size then split with the splitter.
They're usually found ing "weights and measures' section of the codes
