Rodwrap Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 dang stink (lady) bugs...too dang nice out for November..suks!! LET-R-SNOW !! I have TONS of wood for the stove and smokers lots of cherry, ash, oak, beech, hard & red maple,,, pile 1: pile 2; pile 3: pile 4: I've been pulling trees out with my ol' Tahoe: beech tree: 80 ft cherry: course, the dog has to get in on it.. cherry loaded: there's tons more to get out..150 acres worth: so...we are working on ..."The Beast"..front winch & rear grapple..should be a fun winter playing in the snow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captpierre Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Nice. Kind of a shame to burn nice cherry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormdunker Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 You got all the redneck toys! Nice looking firewood & lots of it. Did you investigate the value of your cherry wood to sell to a mill to be used for cabinets & furniture? I'm certain it is more valuable than firewood?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Nice black cherry! I'm at the northern range of it, so it tends to grow into gnarly logs and barely over 14" diam. Love your property. Looks like it's mainly hardwood (probably loaded with deer?), although I think I spotted a hemlock by your wood piles. Is the beast road-legal? Road trip to north bay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr blizzard Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 Some gorgeous country side pictures, , would love to drive the Beast, good looking machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodwrap Posted November 6, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 we are the Black Cherry capitol of PA...i was a logging contractor in the 80's -90's & Cherry veneer went for up to $8/ board foot. We'll not likely ever see that price again. (China found a way to stain red maple to look like cherry), Cherry now is maybe $2/bd.ft. There are 2 large bucks on this 150 acre plot, one a nice 10pt, but, when I see him, the loud-mouth (named Sassy) barks before I can snap a pic. Since being logged, there are a TON of grouse here tho... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodwrap Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 figured I'd better USE some wood today, trying out a new rub.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Nice !!! If you haven't spent most of your life cutting your own wood, most wouldn't understand the difference between firewood and sawlog / veneer ! In many cases my Red Oak's grow in triples and one has to come down for firewood to allow the other two to become valuable veneer trees. Working on that the past 4 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodwrap Posted November 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 I cut a small tract in the early 90's that hadn't been cut in 70 years. 4-6 huge red oaks on each stump. That job yielded 38% veneer, best quality job I ever cut, & it was paying $6/bd. ft then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 My last commercial harvest was 12 years ago, when I let a guy come in for 2 days and when he left I had a cheque for $28,000 in my hand for less than 70 trees. Red oak was $7.50/board foot and my Maples were $8.50. Based on lumber prices I can only imagine what current board foot prices are and I am trying to clean up some neglected bush that I haven't had time for the past 6 years to cash in on that. Most of my Red Oaks are at least 90 feet to the first limb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 My last commercial harvest was 12 years ago, when I let a guy come in for 2 days and when he left I had a cheque for $28,000 in my hand for less than 70 trees. Red oak was $7.50/board foot and my Maples were $8.50. Based on lumber prices I can only imagine what current board foot prices are and I am trying to clean up some neglected bush that I haven't had time for the past 6 years to cash in on that. Most of my Red Oaks are at least 90 feet to the first limb! Your sitting on a gold mine! S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Gold mine indeed! Do you operate as a commercial woodlot? Are you part of the OWA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 7, 2015 Report Share Posted November 7, 2015 Nope, just my own property. My 40 acres and what is now the son's next doors 80. About 55 out of the 120 acres is all hardwood to selectively harvest. Do you know what current board foot prices are on sawlog and veneer, for defect free Red Oak and Maple? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sinker Posted November 8, 2015 Report Share Posted November 8, 2015 Nope, just my own property. My 40 acres and what is now the son's next doors 80. About 55 out of the 120 acres is all hardwood to selectively harvest. Do you know what current board foot prices are on sawlog and veneer, for defect free Red Oak and Maple? I dont off the top of my head, but I work in an 11,000 acre managed forest, so I have contacts in the know.....pm me if you need a reputable forester or a good company to harvest. S. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 (edited) Cleaning up all my oak dead falls ( they love to limb themselves) and unfortunately one of my triples shed it's only veneer trunk, leaving two x 24" + trunks that are good for firewood only. Oh well, I'll let them grow while I clean up the important stuff first before it starts to go bad. Love hand splitting oak.. great work out. Edited November 10, 2015 by irishfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 Typical Red Oaks in my forest. Grow in triples and quads, so good to cut at least one off for firewood and give the other two room to grow out for sawlog / veneer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Caster Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 nice oaks Wayne! I have at least 6 oaks on my entire land. None taller than 12 feet Yellow birches however, they grow quality sawlogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 (edited) My land is weird how it's grown out, behind my house and down to the road allowance is 80% oak, all 20 acres of it. Probably 400 trees minimum are sawlog / veneer grade. Mixed in is a fair amount of hard maple, some sugar maple, some big beech trees a few large birch and a few big ash trees. The NW corner of the property has about 5 acres of 90 foot x 30" + diameter bottom Poplars. Son's is a pretty even mix of all trees and his has a fair batch of cherry and iron wood trees. Everyone of the saplings in this shot of the Birch is either an oak or a hard maple. Edited November 10, 2015 by irishfield Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbuck Posted November 10, 2015 Report Share Posted November 10, 2015 My next big acquisition is going to be a bush lot somewhere in the western part of Muskoka. Cutting firewood is fun and great exercise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted November 11, 2015 Report Share Posted November 11, 2015 Thats a nice tree Wayne. Not sure what it,s worth, but Im sure it,s a fine tree to hang a deer stand on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Oak "sheds" to date, dry and ready to burn. 6' high x 32' long. 2 bush cords Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted November 21, 2015 Report Share Posted November 21, 2015 Red Oak, Hard Maple and some Birch. About 3 bush cords worth. If the weather will cooperate looks like we'll double this up before winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishfield Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 After Leah and I stacked what I had cut and hand split (~ 7 bush cords total), I spent the past week cleaning up a section of bush behind my son's new house on the land next door. In an area approximately 400' x 400' he has at least 60 Cherry trees from 6" diameter, right up to 24" diameter. EVERY one of them is standing dead, while the rest of the bushes Maple, Oaks and Ash are all just fine. Anyone know why this one species would have died off???? At least his house is going to smell nice, as other than a few Maples that I dropped and split to mix in he has about 3.5 bush cords of Cherry... too bad we don't have a smoker! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 After Leah and I stacked what I had cut and hand split (~ 7 bush cords total), I spent the past week cleaning up a section of bush behind my son's new house on the land next door. In an area approximately 400' x 400' he has at least 60 Cherry trees from 6" diameter, right up to 24" diameter. EVERY one of them is standing dead, while the rest of the bushes Maple, Oaks and Ash are all just fine. Anyone know why this one species would have died off???? At least his house is going to smell nice, as other than a few Maples that I dropped and split to mix in he has about 3.5 bush cords of Cherry... too bad we don't have a smoker! Why not? You got everything else around. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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