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The bugs really like hickory to.
Does hickory make good lumber?

Yes, it is very hard wood, but also prone to insects! I made both a Hickory sitting bench (half round) and a Hickory Work Bench this year.
 

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20191226_141622.jpg Made a little progress at the elephant today. When I got there.20191226_161315.jpg When I left. Pictures from the same spot.20191226_152322.jpg Anyone have thoughts on these 3 small hickories? Take them now or see if they come around next spring? Pretty beat up and I cut the tops off so they would stand back up from being pinned by the oak.
 
Worked on the wood pile today, in a tank top [emoji16]. In the 60’s here.
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Finally back in the bush behind my house after spending too much time up north cutting. We have quite a few trees blow down, some rotted and some just strong winds, This big poplar fell partway last year and I've been avoiding that area hoping that it would fall on it's own. Today I decided to get it on the ground so I don't have to keep watching out while going thru that area. There was maybe 15 or 20 cedars leaning all around the area too. You can see where the poplar is laying and bending some of the cedars. I took a lot of pictures as I cleaned it up around the bottom before I cut the cedar that was holding it all up. I finished the job by nudging the cedar with the tractor and the whole thing collapsed and crushed a bunch more cedars. I cleaned some of the cedars but left the poplar for another day. It's pretty rotted so likely just cut it into chunks and push it aside. Couple pictures of some ash that fell in the dry section of the bush. I posted pictures of these trees last spring when over the course of a couple of weeks the wood peckers went crazy on them. As you can see the roots were all dead so the trees just fell over. I intend to cut down as many big ones as I can in that section this winter. Most are 20" plus in diameter, I've already removed 90% of the smaller stuff. This was my plan 5 years ago to remove the small stuff as it would take the most time and then when stuff started falling I would remove the bigger stuff because it would go faster. I was hoping that the ash would survive but it doesn't look like any is going to make it, small stuff are falling over with dead root balls too. For some reason some of the pictures wouldn't load. Forgot to note that the poplar is about 26" diameter and 100' tall.
 

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Few more pics. That cedar is a double stem and is about 28" diameter. looks small in the pics.
 

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The downed ash trees, not much limbing required on these ones. Pic of the wood peckers ripping the bark off. You can see the difference in the 2 areas of the bush. It's a tangled mess where the poplars are because it was never ever really logged there due to it being so wet most of the year. I try to do as much cutting as I can there when it's frozen but been too busy so far this year. Now with my luck we will get a big dump of snow and I won't be able to get back there again. And this afternoons haul out. I spent most of the time cleaning up fallen twisted messes. I also had a trip back to the house to get the gas and oil that someone forgot to take the first time back. Rain and more mud predicted for tomorrow so I'll likely just go to work instead of making a mess back there. I was planning to do some saw milling but the yard is a mess already. The ash on the ground is about 25" diameter.
 

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No pics but found a blown over Norway pine that’s about 18” diameter along the power line right of way so I can drive the snowmobile right up to it. I’ll probably process that this weekend and load it straight into the house rack. Should yield close to a half cord. It’s still holding onto brown needles so I’m sure it’s not perfectly dry but dry enough. There’s another tree down behind it too but I couldn’t tell what it was without walking back in there.

We are supposed to get a foot of snow this weekend so I’ll be busy.
 
Your the only response. 100% of the votes go to take them now.
Have been called many things, but fence-sitter aint one. A while back I asked the panel if I should leave the router marks in that table I am doing. IIRC only Neil responded so his vote saved the table from me having to re-sand it. :)
 
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