The fire of '47 in New Hampshire....I got pictures of the end result...

[Oldtimer]

The fire went through the lot I am cutting when these trees were about 7-8" in diameter...they lived, and appear to be healthy as heck until you cut them down...

 

[Oldtimer]

 

[Oldtimer]

 

[Oldtimer]

You can see how big these pines were; look at the tree on the right, see the scar in the butt?

 

[q-tip jr]

would that be the fire that started in Maine, near the Bar Harbor area - burned a strip to the west in an arc all the way past Sanford and into N.H.? my dad was a volunteer fighter in that one, did a lot of T.S.I. in York county within the remains of that one, in the mid 70's....

 

[Oldtimer]

You know, I am not sure....but I think it started in Madison NH at the sawmill...they lit the burn pile on a "red flag" dry day...and it was windy...
That's what I was told anyway...

 

[imagineero]

Interesting pics!
Was it just in the base?

Shaun

 

[madhatte]

Was it just in the base?

Usually the "cat-face" scar at the base only extends a few feet up the bole. This indicates a low-intensity fire which often leaves trees mostly unharmed. If the crown torches and the buds have already set, the tree is likely to survive if the next season's bud-burst gives it >20% of its crown area. Otherwise, fire-damaged trees are usually killed, if not immediately by the fire itself, later by opportunistic beetles attacking them while they are weakened. Many pines are specially adapted to these low-intensity fires and will show evidence of many fire events, both in bark and wood.

 

[q-tip jr]

the pitch pine that grows in the coastal north east requires a fire episode to open the cones, so I've been told, here in the south the longleaf yellow pine is in an intense restoration phase, it too requires multiple fires both for regen and competition control

 

[cantoo]

So you selling it as standing timber? :msp_tongue:
How about preburned wood?
Slightly used firewood?