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O.T. Firewood anyone? Tree work photos in the panhandle...

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Kevin (FL)

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In our "spare" time, son & I have been rigging & felling oaks threatening our house. Here's a few photos:

Free help from son & daughter's boyfriend:
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Rigging setup with chains & 3-ton chain hoist:
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Rigging setup looking up from dead-man end:
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Notch cut completed, tension on tree:
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Tree dropped (abt 80' long), no damages to house or other property or equipment:
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Most of trunk was rotted:
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Farmall Cub & old Amerind MacKissic Wood Splitter ready for work:
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Three down and about six more to go...looks like we won't be running out of firewood any time soon:
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Nice pics! That free help is hard to beat. I live to the east of you in Columbia County. Looks like water oaks. They grow fast and provide good shade, but do have a tendency to rot out in the middle and have a limited lifespan. I can't remember what the old timer used to tell me, one of the oaks (red vs. white) you split when dry, the other when wet. Guess if you have a good enough hydraulic splitter, it wouldn't matter.
 
JBMac,

I think we used to split the water oaks the same day felled, years ago when I lived in Miss. When I was a kid, we didn't own a log splitter--I was the log splitter--used wedges, 8 & 10# malls and axes. Both the red and water oaks will split easy with an ax, except in way of forks or limb intersections. Hate to burn red oak--that what they make oak furniture with, but we lost a couple of those two--one about 3 feet across.
 
Probably is, but I don't know of much lumber use for water oak--except maybe pallet material & matting or dunnage. It splits pretty bad after it dries out since its full of water. Now red oaks--that's another story. Had a couple of those but couldn't afford to bring in a sawmill and couldn't locate anyone to cut for a share either.
 
I was felling a maple next to the house- it probably would have fallen the right way on its own, but better safe than sorry, so I sent grown son up in the tree to tie a rope on, then sent he and the missus out with the rope to put a pull on it (farther out than the height of the tree, of course). As I got to the point in the face cut where the tree should have started moving, it wasn't- so I looked up at my crew, and they were just looking back at me, enjoying the show. After I got them properly motivated ("PULL! And run like the wind!!"), it came down without ill effect. I got some nice firewood, but not a new roof's worth, in my opinion (moss from shade had ruined half the roof).
 
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