This relatively large and very dead old Oak fell from the woods into my lawn during a storm:
It has a good solid red oak center, but an inch or more of soft stuff on the outside. I cut up the tops and branches, and probably won't bother with them:
( 2 minutes of limbing and topping to remove from lawn and cart path to firewood)
(And a couple cuts in the bigger stuff throwing chips of the center wood)
You can see that I get to the meat of the tree and I could shave the soft off while splitting and have good solid wood. But with plenty of standing dead solid all the way through trees, I don't really need the time investment.
Anyway, question is, do you bother cleaning up this kind of tree, or do you move on for easier, cleaner, faster processing?
Ran out of gas, and my pup got tired, so after dragging the tops off the lawn, we took this after action photo:
It has a good solid red oak center, but an inch or more of soft stuff on the outside. I cut up the tops and branches, and probably won't bother with them:
( 2 minutes of limbing and topping to remove from lawn and cart path to firewood)
(And a couple cuts in the bigger stuff throwing chips of the center wood)
You can see that I get to the meat of the tree and I could shave the soft off while splitting and have good solid wood. But with plenty of standing dead solid all the way through trees, I don't really need the time investment.
Anyway, question is, do you bother cleaning up this kind of tree, or do you move on for easier, cleaner, faster processing?
Ran out of gas, and my pup got tired, so after dragging the tops off the lawn, we took this after action photo: