For the last few weeks (when it hasn't been raining, which it has been for most of the last 5 months) I've been out scrounging along a ridge at the lady farmer's farm. The northern facing side is clear for grazing and a fairly mild slope while the southern side of the ridge is steep and treed. The top of the ridge has plenty of living and dead trees as well as plenty of blackberry bushes as well, unfortunately. With so much rain though, a whole lot of springs have opened up which made the going a bit hard getting up there let alone sliding down with a trailer behind. So, cutting and piling up for later collection has been the order for the last little while.
My first trip up there was a bit of a reconnaissance mission. With a saw, naturally. There's an absolute crapload of wood along there, it's a pity I have a job and stuff or I'd be there every day (that it doesn't rain, that is).
In the foreground there's some dead fallen peppermint, very nice. In the middle distance there's a branch that fell off a blue gum, also nice and dry.
Here's that blue gum branch from another angle. There's a nice dead standing peppermint in the middle of the picture but he has a fair lean away from my vantage point here and if dropped will land square amongst a million blackberries. Pity about that, but I'll pass.
Now that blue gum branch has fallen off a decent sized tree. Blue gums grow very tall, up to nearly 300ft but this one didn't have much competition so he just got big and fat. That is my 460 with 20 inch bar at the base for comparison.
Do you think I might need a longer bar?
