Falling pics 11/25/09

[slowp]

Is there any red alder down there Randy?


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I gave him some seedlings to plant.

 

[Skeans]

I swear you look at them funny and they chair out.


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[RandyMac]

Yeah, got plenty of Alder.

 

[bitzer]

I wish I could cut a few. Can't imagine they are much worse than our hickory, white oak, or ash.

 

[coltont]

Don't forget big basswood

 

[bitzer]

Don't forget big basswood

Really? I've never had one split on the stump. I've screwed up some bucks that split, but that can be done with just about anything.

 

[treeslayer2003]

poplar will split if ya don't buck it right. what is bass wood any way?

 

[coltont]

You best have it thin or cut off on the hold side if you are going to roll it through other trees.

 

[coltont]

The face will split quicker than ash or white oak. You have to cut it fast from the back and it will listen. Can't swing it much.

 

[treeslayer2003]

is it like cotton wood? tryin to figure what family its in......

 

[coltont]

Basswood is like poplar but it will break out in a thick slab unlike poplar. No cotton wood here closest thing is aspen to cottonwood

 

[treeslayer2003]

once in a great while i come across a tree i don't know what is. looks kinda like poplar and grows with poplar but not poplar. very soft, and usualy not large. they seem to wind throw worse than even poplar.

 

[coltont]

I bet you $100 it's aspen

 

[treeslayer2003]

this far south? could be......has deep bark like poplar though. take a close look to realize its not.

 

[coltont]

Aspen sucks. You can't swing it at all. It's like cutting wet card board. Only good thing is that it gets really tall and won't taper much. This stuff is 3 25 foot sticks long

 

[treeslayer2003]

hah! that could be it. never seen more than 2-3 in a stand.

 

[coltont]

This stand were in now if has produced 23 loads. It all goes to the dumb yuppie bastards that buy bagged firewood. Hot sticks is what they call it. Sold to Ernie Gish. They call it hot sticks. Pays us well

 

[treeslayer2003]

lol, if we had any sense, we'd buy wood wrapers lol. i some times wonder if there is more profit in wood than in logs......

 

[coltont]

Mechanized for wood would work. You can't cut these with a buncher

 

[Metals406]

lol, if we had any sense, we'd buy wood wrapers lol. i some times wonder if there is more profit in wood than in logs......

Cut a load of DF off my buddies place last year. The mill deducted $450.

He would have made more cutting it all into 16" & selling it fir $180 per cord.