Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Gordon Gould
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I had to clean out a road culvert today and guess what was buzzing around my head the whole time. For some reason it made me think of you :confused3: :laughing: Only 2 days since all our snow was gone where it was stacked up, frost still coming out of the road but 70 degrees.
Nice load of oak Whitbread. Looks like there is plenty more. Why is that opened up like that ?? Almost looks like a future golf course or development site.
gg
There's tons more! All oaks, all 12"+ and straight.
It's an area of state land that was "select cut" by a logging company with the DNR's approval. When they took all the little trees out, there's nothing to stop a windstorm and it blew down well over a dozen of these pristine oaks. It makes me sick to my stomach to see what was once a beautiful mature hardwood area turned into a wasteland for the next 25 years with state approval, but at least it gives me more wood than I can burn!
Is that cherry?
Diggin It
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That's what everybody has told me it is. It sorta smells like it. But I don't know wood well enough to be sure on my own. It doesn't flower or fruit. Great grain though in my opinion.
Sawyer Rob
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It's NOT like any American Blk. Cherry we have around here, maybe some other kind of cherry though...
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Diggin It
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I've got a few others still standing, plus a few chunks on the ground to be split. I could get a closeup of the bark if that would help.
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The select cut parameters must have been select any thing worth money but leave a few to make it look like we know what we are doing. I hope the land owner, state of NH you say, is happy. In my mind that is criminal. Single big trees in sandy soil suddenly put out in the open like that won't stay up for long. What were they thinking. If they wanted an area of early successional forest to develop they should have just clear cut it. Though that is a valid technique I guess it is a no-no with the general public. Maybe they did it that way so it would look like an accident.
gg
The leaves and a branch would help. Crushing cherry leaves gives an acrid smell, and they give off arsenic as they are wilting. When we cut a tree under a powerline which went through a horse pasture we had to pick up every stinking leaf, to ensure that we didn't poison the owner's equines. Black Cherry is funny, in some parts of the country it's tall and straight... other places (like Maine) it's short, scrubby, and you're lucky to get a straight section out of it.
Oak is generally pretty stable, that big tap root holds it in place. Obviously that didn't work this time, I would guess that they had a major rain event which saturated the soil. Anytime that I do a selection cut it's with the knowledge that some trees might blow down; and in the worst case scenario we have to go back in and clean it up. Every woodlot is different, and we can't predict weather events; sometimes there is some loss, but we try to keep it to a minimum. The other option is simply to flatten every stand that we enter; some foresters like to do that but I don't feel that it's warranted.
Diggin It
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One of the reasons the neighbor wanted them down is because he said the leaves on fallen branches from storms were making his animals sick. Somebody else told me they emit Prussic Acid as they're wilting.