IMO, dead Ash is the most dangerous tree to fall. You just never know if it is solid or gone, you can just touch it with the saw and it will fall, no hinge at all!
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Dont be a firewood snob. I have kept warm many a winters burning basswood. Sure You need more but add in the hardwood tops and your laughing, besides your outside running your saws.
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That what i was going to say. I do not like cutting trees that have been dead standing to long. Just to dangerous. if I cannot find something on the ground I TRY wait until late fall or winter to cut it down living trees when there is much less water (and sap) in the tree. I’ll just try to get the tree trees that produce the least Sap in the middle of the summer.
I have a huge cherry at the edge of my woods that will be probably 4+ truck loads (2 cords possibly) The bottom portion of the tree is diseased and dying starting to show ants. Going to wait till it’s really cold out so when it falls in my yard it doesn’t sink in the mud. But I am a little nervous about cutting it down.
Has two trunks and they splits about 4 feet from the ground. Still deciding on if I should try to cut them down individually (a bit high)or take them together below the split.
Regardless the moral of my story is dead trees are dangerous.
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I'm pretty much at the epicenter of the EAB outbreak so these trees have been dead for 15 years. Most of them are in low areas of the property so they generally rot off at the roots and fall over. Often the first 6 or 8 feet are punky by that time but the rest of the trunk is still good (most of the branches are long gone.) That's why I let nature take it's course with them. They are a lot safer to cut on the ground!
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Check this website out. Any carver groups in your area? https://www.stockade.ca/Basswood-Items_c_1823.html
Figured it was a large amount
, 250k ain't no small block.As I was saying before I'd find someone to buy those tops, probably multiple someones lol.
And I wouldn't touch a single stick of the basswood for firewood. It's one of those can't be tripping over dollars to pick up dimes kinda things, but if you have all the time in the world and need something to do
.I loaded another cord today and got it delivered and stacked, the piles getting small, I'm gonna need you to drop some tops off over here
.Reverse scrounging lol.
Looks real small in this picture, that's a 20' trailer
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MechanicMatt
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It's fine for what you're doing with it, but this particular trailer is built to light for working with.
My last aluminum trailer an aluma brand trailer was great and built much heavier. I have pictures on AS somewhere, probably in this thread with the top rails popped off the uprights and the gate broke loos from the back the third time I drove my little tractor on it. I also broke through the decking on it as it was 5/4 boards, literally deck boards
. I replaced the 4 outside boards on the back 4'(dovetail of sorts, only an inch drop ) with 1.25" white oak boards, and had a fab shop add gussets on all the uprights both sides and top and bottom so now it's much better. Yours looks to have twice as may uprights, that's real nice, and since they didn't give us anywhere to secure loads to you also have twice as many securement points. I've considered having 3/8" flat stock welded on the outside of the uprights to make a rubrail that could also be used for securing to next to the uprights, I'd also add twice as many uprights like your trailer or just tube stock at the same points for the flat stock to be welded to. The trailer has done a lot of work for me, but it should have been built better, it's my fault that I bought it sight unseen of an online auction site
. It owes me nothing and it's still going and has some value so that's good, do you need another one .Here's my old one with a nice little load.
I'd like another one of these, I should sell my 4x8 and get one or maybe I should keep the 4x8, I think I may have TAD
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Big trailer with the rail popping off on the front.
And with the new gussets.
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This one is right beside the mulberry I'm working on at the other property.
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Started working on this a few days ago. The ash in the other pic is about 10' to the left.
Still need to put the rest on the ground.
MechanicMatt
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I like the aluminum because it keeps the weight down. So the stuff being carried is what the truck is pulling, not some big heavy steel trailer
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I have a little single axle 5x8 but the weight rating isnt very high. I think if I just had one layer of 18" rounds on it stood up on end so they dont roll around it would be ok but most of the time if i cut enough to fill the truck first I dont have enough time or energy to fill a trailer also
Cold windy day in the woods. Was 14 this morning and has dropped down to 8. I’ve walked 2.75 miles of my 3.5 mile loop and have seen nothing so far.
Cut a load of maple and oak this morning out of two smaller tops behind the house only a couple hundred more loads in there lol
That is very interesting. I have relatives not far from you (West Winfield) and they don't have any Oak in the area (other than what they planted). My cousin now has the 125 acre farm. Used to be a dairy farm, but he just rents fields. Used to have a lot of Elm, but they all died, and has a lot of Sugar Maple.
Around me as far as hardwoods we have a lot of maple, red and white oak, ash , beech, shagbark hickory. also a lot of iron wood
This chunk of land was hit extremely hard by two years of wind storms. It used to be heavily traveled by deer.
You can mow a path thru knee high grass and deer will travel it before they go thru the taller stuff. Funny animals.
