Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Jstpssng · Dec 30, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
Everyone just calm down, just because theres a chainsaw next to the tractor tire doesn't mean it's always placed next to a tractor tire, besides, this is a professional logger with a photo-graphic memory..............

I thought that you had given up and moved to Florida... or at least NYC. Good to see that you're still posting.

Oldpath05 · Dec 30, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
^^^^ That was way better than most beech here. I have been watching it. In June of 2016 it got attacked by the drilling insect (beech scale). The white waxy deposits are a give-away.

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Then in Oct that same year I could see that the fungus got into it and started to flower.

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Then the next summer, 2017, and since it has been clean - no cankers. I thought it was immune to BBD and it was one of my keep trees.

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But this spring I noticed the top dying. Dead branches and yellow leaves which fell off by July. The bark also started to have fine 6 or 8 inch vertical splits in it every where. I have no idea if BBD killed it or something else ????

gg

That looks like ash to me, but the last one looks a bit green.........

Citydude · Dec 30, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
Everyone just calm down, just because theres a chainsaw next to the tractor tire doesn't mean it's always placed next to a tractor tire, besides, this is a professional logger with a photo-graphic memory..............

I was going to ask you if you got a new tractor but realized it’s Gordon’s

Jstpssng · Dec 30, 2020

^^^^
I almost did the same.

Gordon Gould · Dec 31, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
Everyone just calm down, just because theres a chainsaw next to the tractor tire doesn't mean it's always placed next to a tractor tire, besides, this is a professional logger with a photo-graphic memory..............

I like to have something in a pic for you to comment on. That's why there are so many - to make sure you will find something. Makes this thread more interesting than just boring woods pics. At least I didn't leave the saw up on the hill like I did my wedge axe. We only got a dusting of snow last night so it should be easy to find this morning.

gg

Gordon Gould · Dec 31, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
That looks like ash to me, but the last one looks a bit green.........

That is the exact same tree I just cut and pulled of the hill. Ash ???????????????????

gg

hunt4570 · Dec 31, 2020

Well we don't have ash or beech here that I know of... AND NO SNOW!!!:cool2:

BackRoad · Dec 31, 2020

Easy to see the winch set-up is a great tool in the right hands!

The comment about the beech fungus and related first-hand knowledge of the devastation from the Ash borer makes me wonder about what other entire species of trees might have existed but are now long gone due to disease or pests.

Like the American Chestnut.

Reminds me of going to Gettysburg and seeing the witness trees...trees that were present during the battle and are still standing now...few remain.

Property next to me has a HUGE 5 foot (+) diameter oak back in the woods that is as healthy looking as any tree in the area...it's the old man of the forest.

Can't even begin to guess how many winters it has withstood.

I've created 20 big slash piles in the last year, so not a tree hugger...but might consider taking my chainsaw to anyone approaching that tree to cut it down!

Sawyer Rob · Dec 31, 2020

We have some pretty nice beech here,

I just can't bring myself to cut them up for firewood,

so I mill them into cants,

and the ones I don't need right then, get put on stickers for later use,

There's always plenty of firewood in the tops,

and slabs anyway,

SR

Oldpath05 · Dec 31, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
^^^^ That was way better than most beech here. I have been watching it. In June of 2016 it got attacked by the drilling insect (beech scale). The white waxy deposits are a give-away.

Then in Oct that same year I could see that the fungus got into it and started to flower.

View attachment 681587

But this spring I noticed the top dying. Dead branches and yellow leaves which fell off by July. The bark also started to have fine 6 or 8 inch vertical splits in it every where. I have no idea if BBD killed it or something else ????

gg