3-19-2026 Made significant progress today. Thank God I did not become a squishy today!
This morning I was quite nervous going out to cut the logs into section and then pieces to remove them from the hillside beside the State Route, because of the slope of the hill and being they were laying on top of each other crisscrossed. I asked a neighbor to text me every few hours to make sure I was not pinned under a log. Thank God it all went well.
@Adrift Thank you! But mother nature with her rain and winds fell the two giant white oaks for me straight across the state route taking out the power pole. Once the Ohio Department of Transportation cleared the road way. I cleaned up both sides of the road of the fallen timber.
I watched a youtube video about this a while ago. Interesting to look at the pile and try to decide where the tension is and where things will go once you start to cut. A lot of hoping for the best. Looks like you did alright.
@PoohSmasher Yeah, the back yard warrior that has someone to video their demise is plain foolishness. I notice those videos cut off so you miss the ambulance/medic and some of them I swear a coroner getting called out.
@4meAndyou I just do what my body says I can do, and I quit when things begin to hurt. After 12 different major surgeries from my career it usually hits me after three to four hours. I was lucky here to get two three quarte days in, but today was strictly push mowing day in the morning. I am totally spent and worn out.. Monday or maybe Tuesday I will tackle the trees again. "Maybe"!
@HumanEarth I cannot have a timber farm and be afraid of my work/craft. I took a solid Seven days scoping and figuring all the bad things to be/stand and not to do before hitting it the wise and smart way.
I cut those large round chunks and rolled them downhill when no cars were coming, hand rolled them across the state route and did a short squat to lift them into the bed of my UTV to save my back. That manly lift and carry shit is for 16- to 20-year-olds. The UTV bed was roughly 1 to 12 inches higher than the road surface off to the side of the road.
@Cigarguys It is White Oak and will make excellent home heat this coming fall and winter. Bon fires are for junk wood species for a timber farm owner like me. Like white pines for bon fires, love the open-air smell of burning pine as well as the snap and crackle in the flames of the pine sap.
@Cigarguys Those trees would still be growing if the rain and wind did not bring them down across the state route taking out the power ole across the road from them. I am just cleaning up the debree and counting me wood heat blessings while doing so.
@Musicman Thank you, I always try, and I recognize the gifts god gave me too genetically (Another topic I did not want to open up with). Just support and thanks for the compliment they gave me.
