Thursday, March 18, 2004
Update on the Osage clearing operation.
I called the property manger today and he agreed to let me take some trees as long as I left the piles neat. The tree service will move the chipper in next week and chop them up. They need to have neat piles so they can get in and out quickly. I made a post on 3 message boards asking for help since I still don't have a chainsaw. I walked the fields this afternoon and sprayed red paint on the logs I thought would be OK for full length staves. There are a lot of other logs that are not straight or have branches or have been broken by the equipment.
I have had a few people call about the post. We will meet at 10:00AM on Saturday to start cutting. Location is Ameriplex industrial park on 67 between Indy and Mooresville, west side of the road. Turn on Milhouse road and park at the red barn where the bulldozer is parked. It is muddy so we can't drive to the woodpiles. We will need to split and haul it out. Some wood is close to the road. There are a lot of shorter pieces that would make good billets but I didn't mark any of them.
I will try to get my son and some of his friends out to help moving stuff around. I will bring a sledge, a hatchet and wedges. I need to check my shellac and make sure it's still good.
Map to Milhouse road.
Use zoom control to get a bigger view.
Here's the driveway off Milhouse road.
South side of the road looking north along the fencerow.
First reasonable looking pile of trees on south side marked with red paint.
Second pile I marked.
Third pile I marked on south side.
There are a lot of trees on the south side with big growth rings. It was a fence row between two soybean fields. A lot were too gnarly or were broken by the machinery. I just marked the ones I thought would work for full length staves.
The north side of the road has a lot of piles just cut today. The growth rings are more normal looking and there are some big pieces that would make billets. I took pictures of just the ones I thoutht would make full length staves.
North side of the road.
Second north side.
Third pile I marked on north side.
Fourth pile I marked on north side.
I called the property manger today and he agreed to let me take some trees as long as I left the piles neat. The tree service will move the chipper in next week and chop them up. They need to have neat piles so they can get in and out quickly. I made a post on 3 message boards asking for help since I still don't have a chainsaw. I walked the fields this afternoon and sprayed red paint on the logs I thought would be OK for full length staves. There are a lot of other logs that are not straight or have branches or have been broken by the equipment.
I have had a few people call about the post. We will meet at 10:00AM on Saturday to start cutting. Location is Ameriplex industrial park on 67 between Indy and Mooresville, west side of the road. Turn on Milhouse road and park at the red barn where the bulldozer is parked. It is muddy so we can't drive to the woodpiles. We will need to split and haul it out. Some wood is close to the road. There are a lot of shorter pieces that would make good billets but I didn't mark any of them.
I will try to get my son and some of his friends out to help moving stuff around. I will bring a sledge, a hatchet and wedges. I need to check my shellac and make sure it's still good.
Map to Milhouse road.
Use zoom control to get a bigger view.
Here's the driveway off Milhouse road.
South side of the road looking north along the fencerow.
First reasonable looking pile of trees on south side marked with red paint.
Second pile I marked.
Third pile I marked on south side.
There are a lot of trees on the south side with big growth rings. It was a fence row between two soybean fields. A lot were too gnarly or were broken by the machinery. I just marked the ones I thought would work for full length staves.
The north side of the road has a lot of piles just cut today. The growth rings are more normal looking and there are some big pieces that would make billets. I took pictures of just the ones I thoutht would make full length staves.
North side of the road.
Second north side.
Third pile I marked on north side.
Fourth pile I marked on north side.
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