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Thread: Got A Start On My 2011 / 2012 Wood

  1. 01-21-2010, 04:26 PM #1
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    Got A Start On My 2011 / 2012 Wood

    We had a big ole Sugar Maple off the back corner of the barn. A few years ago it started heading down hill fast. Everything facing south was dead, and after a good sized limb came down on my trailer, i decided it was time for it to go. I paid a tree service to come in and limb it, then put it on the ground for me.






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  2. 01-21-2010, 04:34 PM #2
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    A 2186 did the felling.



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    Better fire up the 372....
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    The stump measured 47" across. Once it was on the ground, my work began. My BIL gave me a hand trimming up the brush and feeding it into the chipper. Smaller limbs were run across the cordwood saw, cut to stove length.





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    Looked like a nice day to be out. Great pics. How do you like the cordwood saw?

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    I used my 372 to cut the stem into stove length rounds. I really that saw ! There are a couple sticks of firewood in each of those rounds.







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    Quote Originally Posted by mimilkman1 View Post
    How do you like the cordwood saw?

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    I really like it for limb wood. Its drawback is its lack of portability.
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    Huge tree bet you hated to lose her.

    Nice pictures. How long do you let Sugar Maple season before burning.
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    lost some nice wood to the chipper IMO

    I keep almost everything from a tree.
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    Been working on splitting it up. One of the rare occaisions i run my splitter in the vertical position . Anyone want to guess how many cord of firewood in in that tree?









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    Quote Originally Posted by dumbarky View Post
    Nice pictures. How long do you let Sugar Maple season before burning.
    I certainly wouldn't have had it taken down if it were healthy. I actually had an arborist look at it a year or so ago. Unfortunately, it would have been prohibitively expensive to keep the tree. Having the first pruning of the dead wood done was more than taking the whole tree down, and i wasn't intertested in chasing it for years (not to mention the liability of it). We have plenty of saplings, and we'll have another grow in its place. I plan on letting it season for two years before burning it.

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    I keep almost everything from a tree.
    I'm with you. We did chip some stuff that i would normally burn, but the very top of the tree ended up over my neighbors property line and i wanted to clean that up as quickly as possible..... so in the chipper it went.
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    Do it once and move on.

    Yeah I would rather cut it all at once too. Instead of fighting with it for season after season. We had a huge red oak on the community building parking lot that slowly died. The city wouldn't let me cut it all at once. So we topped it twice only to end up cutting the whole thing down later. They would have been money ahead to let me take her out at the onset, but they were listening to some so call friend of the environment engineer. Seems like your just prolonging the inevitable. Trees will always grow back or can be replanted. Your absolutely right about the liability issue. We had to replace shingle on a nearby build and some chain link fencing twice after limbs falling, before they would let me top her out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dumbarky View Post
    Nice pictures. How long do you let Sugar Maple season before burning.
    6-8 months it will be ready to burn. It dries out quick once it is split.
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    Great pictures

    Thanks for sharing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by woodhounder View Post
    6-8 months it will be ready to burn. It dries out quick once it is split.


    It's definitely one of the shorter seasoning hardwoods.
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