c5rulz
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During the Winter cutting wood is my hobby and excercise. I am always looking for places to cut. A couple months ago I put an ad on CL stating that I would assist landowners trim fencelines cut brush or what ever they wanted in return for access to hardwood. A level spot that had been logged recently would be ideal and within 20 miles of my location. I had 3 calls, one was way too far away
, the second guy had boxelder :msp_ohmy: which amused me since I have a plethora of boxelder we make huge bonfires out of and the 3rd was success.![Bowdown :bowdown: :bowdown:](/styles/default/xenforo/bowdown.gif)
This Landowner had his place logged 5-6 years ago but the tops were still real solid and there are trails every where so removing wood was easy. I have been cutting here 3-4 days a week.
While I was cutting the guy next door came over and starting chatting. He commented how the woods looked good where I had been working and noted that I removed some trash trees, (boxelder & cedar) to make room for the regenerating oak and how I had limbed up the new young oaks so they will be straight and make marketable timber some day. This landowner then said I was welcome on his place too.:msp_
Anyway, I took some pics on the second place today. I focused on a single 25" tree that had the top broken off last summer, it still had leaves. I spent an hour and 45 minutes stacking the brush from the oak and 3 pines that got trashed when this came down.
Here is the tree with the top broken out.
The top.
Brushpile afterwards.
![Bowdown :bowdown: :bowdown:](/styles/default/xenforo/bowdown.gif)
This Landowner had his place logged 5-6 years ago but the tops were still real solid and there are trails every where so removing wood was easy. I have been cutting here 3-4 days a week.
While I was cutting the guy next door came over and starting chatting. He commented how the woods looked good where I had been working and noted that I removed some trash trees, (boxelder & cedar) to make room for the regenerating oak and how I had limbed up the new young oaks so they will be straight and make marketable timber some day. This landowner then said I was welcome on his place too.:msp_
Anyway, I took some pics on the second place today. I focused on a single 25" tree that had the top broken off last summer, it still had leaves. I spent an hour and 45 minutes stacking the brush from the oak and 3 pines that got trashed when this came down.
Here is the tree with the top broken out.
![2qjwoyt.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/ba3/ba3daa128932e6075ffdedf09dddc088.jpg)
The top.
![2dul2qw.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/872/872c0eeb0df2442d47af2a29a694c11f.jpg)
![25gfk7n.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/572/572beda33fa19e691801ee91ac17ba26.jpg)
Brushpile afterwards.
![34zyfq1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/cc3/cc367091bf77b9f8271b3ff14431dca3.jpg)