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Post by firstwd on Dec 29, 2016 16:02:55 GMT -5
The absolute worst part about packing up and thinking you have one day left to finish up all the downed trees is turning around and realizing you skipped three trees while going around the water in the field.
CRAP!
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Post by throbak on Dec 29, 2016 18:08:55 GMT -5
I'm working on the tops of 5 Ash in my neighbors yard 2500 bf of log smallest 16 in 30 ft log Biggest 31in 25 ft log I'm just taking tops !!Thats not counting the 80acres that is full of dead Ash getting ready to drop about 40 or so to sell just what I need more firewood lol They rot quick !!I have 3 years in Tobacco barn cut and split and About 2 yrs cut and ready to split all Ash Don't even mess with anything else unless a oak or Osage dies
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Post by firstwd on Dec 29, 2016 23:15:34 GMT -5
I'm working on the tops of 5 Ash in my neighbors yard 2500 bf of log smallest 16 in 30 ft log Biggest 31in 25 ft log I'm just taking tops !!Thats not counting the 80acres that is full of dead Ash getting ready to drop about 40 or so to sell just what I need more firewood lol They rot quick !!I have 3 years in Tobacco barn cut and split and About 2 yrs cut and ready to split all Ash Don't even mess with anything else unless a oak or Osage dies For the last 5 years I have cut nothing but trees that have fallen or standing dead ash, unless a fallen tree is hung up to a point that I have to drop another to get it down. My neighbor and I have been heating with it and we leave anything smaller that a football for my brother's gold camp guys. He has about 2 year's supply left from last year plus everything from what I've cut this year. If it wasn't so much like work I'd sell the stuff. Maybe then I could actually keep up with it. It's a little depressing seeing the cherry trees dropping simply because it's more to cut up. That huge cottonwood that fell into the field last year took quite a bit of time to clean up.
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Post by scrub-buster on Dec 29, 2016 23:29:53 GMT -5
I don't even want to think about the mess our woods are going to be when the ash start falling. We have to many of them to take down and remove. The valley around our small pond is nothing but ash trees. I looked over it this summer and it looked like winter. No leaves at all. We don't heat with wood so we have no use for it. I bought a can of Husqvarna premix fuel yesterday. That's all I run in my new saw. I plan on cutting some osage trees soon. I took a walk last week and picked out some good candidates for bow wood.
Be careful and good luck with your wood cutting guys,
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Post by firstwd on Dec 30, 2016 15:14:26 GMT -5
So today I won an argument with my lazy self and got 7 & 1/2 of the 8 trees that were left down cut up, including the 3 I discovered yesterday. Btw... the one positive of trees being down on a steep hill is the blocks self locate to the bottom.
Does that much work make up for me putting 2 more on the ground?
Oh, and I really should apologize to nature. When the first one hit the ground a very shook up fox squirrel came running out of it. Unfortunately he didn't pick a good place to hide because he shortly took an identical ride when the second one hit the ground.
I believe I'm creating the need for a H-I member wood splitting party. Everybody bring a side dish, I'll provide the deer steaks and drinks, and all the gas for the wood splitters. :-)
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Post by esshup on Dec 30, 2016 18:05:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2016 18:32:44 GMT -5
I've cut down two ash tress and have 10 or 11 left. I have three in the yard that I will need to take care of someday. There's one on the edge of the woods and hoping if falls into the woods. All the trees in the woods are for the birds and soon to the ground
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Post by bill9068 on Dec 30, 2016 19:04:26 GMT -5
The oaks are dying out also, got a buddy who owns a tree service and he has been taking oaks out due to galls. I have a yard full of oak trunks he brings me for firewood. I have more poplar trees than anything else on my property.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 30, 2016 19:55:30 GMT -5
I've seen videos of those in action. They certainly are impressive, but man the years it would take of personal use wood to make up the cost. I think it would take years of selling wood to recover the cost, especially if you didn't have the heavy equipment to handle the logs.
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Post by welder on Dec 30, 2016 21:55:44 GMT -5
I have cut 120+ dead ash trees from my woods in the past 3 years. I have sold about half of them for saw logs,I have an outside boiler,so subsequently,I burn LOTS of firewood. I have done all the cutting,skidding,hauling by myself. I would NEVER have cut them if they weren't dead,but they were going to waste and I made around $6000 for the logs. Be VERY CAREFUL with dead trees! They call them "widow makers" for a reason.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 30, 2016 22:41:31 GMT -5
I have cut 120+ dead ash trees from my woods in the past 3 years. I have sold about half of them for saw logs,I have an outside boiler,so subsequently,I burn LOTS of firewood. I have done all the cutting,skidding,hauling by myself. I would NEVER have cut them if they weren't dead,but they were going to waste and I made around $6000 for the logs. Be VERY CAREFUL with dead trees! They call them "widow makers" for a reason. I understand that. I've had a saw in my hands for more than 30 years. I've experienced a few incidents and more than my fair share of lucky excapes. I move much slower since my knee surgery three years ago and I've noticed that I am much more selective with my cuts. My neighbor that has been cutting with me usually looks stunned and scratches his head because he never knew trees could be manipulated and controlled to the ground. Then again, he learned to cut wood from YouTube videos......
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Post by esshup on Dec 30, 2016 23:58:22 GMT -5
I've seen videos of those in action. They certainly are impressive, but man the years it would take of personal use wood to make up the cost. I think it would take years of selling wood to recover the cost, especially if you didn't have the heavy equipment to handle the logs. But, that place rents them by the day/weekend or the week. If a person was set up in advance, they could process 3 years worth of wood in a weekend.
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Post by firstwd on Dec 31, 2016 7:15:16 GMT -5
I've seen videos of those in action. They certainly are impressive, but man the years it would take of personal use wood to make up the cost. I think it would take years of selling wood to recover the cost, especially if you didn't have the heavy equipment to handle the logs. But, that place rents them by the day/weekend or the week. If a person was set up in advance, they could process 3 years worth of wood in a weekend. True. Still doesn't fix my lack of heavy equipment or the 3 to 4 hour drive one way to pick one up. I'm in Greensburg in the Southeast part of the state.
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Post by esshup on Dec 31, 2016 20:17:18 GMT -5
But, that place rents them by the day/weekend or the week. If a person was set up in advance, they could process 3 years worth of wood in a weekend. True. Still doesn't fix my lack of heavy equipment or the 3 to 4 hour drive one way to pick one up. I'm in Greensburg in the Southeast part of the state. The smaller one can be towed with a regular PU truck or SUV, the larger one needs a vehicle that has an electric brake controller. Enterprise Truck Rentals (commercial side of Enterprise) has numerous PU trucks with brake controllers. Ask for a 3/4 or 1 ton Dodge and they have them built in from the factory. Roughly $80/day for the truck rental, $370/week.
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Post by throbak on Jan 1, 2017 19:01:15 GMT -5
So roughly 1000 $ renting truck and splitter before you have one stick of wood Do you realize how much ash firewood you could buy for that much money LOTS
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Post by esshup on Jan 2, 2017 9:35:19 GMT -5
So roughly 1000 $ renting truck and splitter before you have one stick of wood Do you realize how much ash firewood you could buy for that much money LOTS BUT, if you have between 40 and 50 cords of 14'-16'long, 12"-24" dia logs piled up already.......... Pin Oak, Red Oak and hard Maple, then what? It's at a clients place, all those died in the past few years due to the guy that built the ponds piling dirt/compacting dirt around the base of the trees near the ponds. The thinnest dirt is about 18" thick, some is 60" thick. He killed a LOT of trees being stupid, and there are more still dying now. I have close to 50 trees to cut this winter that are dead. Here Cut/split firewood is going for $175/cord. Not face cord or rank, a full cord. I agree, you can buy a lot of wood for what the rental costs. It all depends on how much wood you have to split I guess. Handling 20+" dia x 16" long rounds all day long to split gets tiring after a while.
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Post by 1shotwade on Jan 2, 2017 17:52:04 GMT -5
So today I won an argument with my lazy self and got 7 & 1/2 of the 8 trees that were left down cut up, including the 3 I discovered yesterday. Btw... the one positive of trees being down on a steep hill is the blocks self locate to the bottom. Does that much work make up for me putting 2 more on the ground? Oh, and I really should apologize to nature. When the first one hit the ground a very shook up fox squirrel came running out of it. Unfortunately he didn't pick a good place to hide because he shortly took an identical ride when the second one hit the ground. I believe I'm creating the need for a H-I member wood splitting party. Everybody bring a side dish, I'll provide the deer steaks and drinks, and all the gas for the wood splitters. :-) A couple years ago I took down a hollow tree I just knew was a den but nothing came out of it when it hit the ground.A half hour later while cutting it up I cut a fox squirrel in half.He was still alive and squealing when it happened. I hate kill'n one out of season!LOL! Wade
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Post by 1shotwade on Jan 2, 2017 18:05:11 GMT -5
So roughly 1000 $ renting truck and splitter before you have one stick of wood Do you realize how much ash firewood you could buy for that much money LOTS Howdy neighbor! Born and raised near Cross Plains. That's 30 miles south of Greenburg in case others didn't know. Wade
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Post by throbak on Jan 2, 2017 18:18:49 GMT -5
I lived on the washboard for a while owned the farm farm for 15 yr or so till They made a double wide addition next to me
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Post by 1shotwade on Jan 2, 2017 18:27:52 GMT -5
I'm 2 miles down the old "washboard road" as it was known.Currently cr 800s. Is this where you used to be? Washboard road,between CP and Rexville? Wade
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