All That Effort For One Tree

[@EdKeen-sr5xs]

Great job saving those logs😊

[@MacJackal]

Thank you!

[@firewoodmillionaire]

Nice equipment!

[@MacJackal]

Thank you!

[@jamesdurrant7392]

You should build a saw mill shed to work in to protect you mill

[@MacJackal]

I will in the future. Just haven't got that far yet. Thanks for watching!

[@bradleykuechle7586]

box elder it is a member of the maple family will have red wood on the inside i live in Minnesota we have lots of box elder trees can be tricky to identify but the way you described the smell reminds me of it. It is a soft wood like a silver maple.

[@MacJackal]

Interesting, I never would have thought of Box Elder. Thanks for the info. Where in Minnesota are you? I lived there for about a decade.

[@bradleykuechle7586]

@ good morning, I live south and west of St. Cloud near Cold Spring. Or about 7 miles west of Powder Ridge Ski area as the crow flies.

[@mcpiddler1135]

Here's my opinion of your choice of equipment. I do admire your persistence to get the job done, but I believe the tractor is much more suited to do the work much faster and safer. Just fasten you seat belt and keep the load as low as possible and bring your logs out with the boom. Keep it low as possible and the center of gravity will be low as well. If needed to keep the logs level you can chain the front to the boom beam. The only way to gain confidence is by using it. Common sense will get you through most any situation.

[@MacJackal]

That's very good advice. It would be faster once I'm a little more comfortable using it on uneven ground. Thanks for watching!

[@anemone104]

I do like your forwarder trailer jobby. Much kinder to the ground than skidding lengths everywhere and keeps 'em clean for the mill. Mystery tree: It's been dead a while. It's gone from 'spalting' into 'rot' and there are mature fungal fruiting bodies (bracket fungi|) just down-stem from your cut. They are horizontal with the stem lying as found, so grew there. The pink is likely spalting too - here in the UK is we see spalting 'cell' boundaries that when fresh-cut are brown, black, pink or blue. We have a fungus often seen in small branch wood on the ground that turns it to fragments and all the fragments are a bright blue-green like copper verdigris. It's known as paintsplash fungus. You may be sniffing damaged fungal mycelium in your cut end. Bark is completely wrong for any birch I've ever seen, but I've never seen America!

[@MacJackal]

Wow, thanks for sharing that info. That's some great detective work. I'm leaning much more towards maple tree as I learn more. Amazing what you could see just by looking at the fungi in the video. I like that the more time I spend with trees, wood, etc. the more I learn about my environment. Thanks for watching!

[@anemone104]

@@MacJackal Thanks. I'm happy you found it useful. I'm an ecologist, relationships between species like fungi in a tree is what I do. Woodlands is a special interest, but that doesn't mean I don't fell and utilise trees. This link takes you to a firewood video that mentions the effect of fungi on firewood value of fuel logs. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKGXeZyYd52Ag7M

[@DleeNelson]

The mystery tree that's a box elder it looks like

[@MacJackal]

You are the 3rd person to guess Box Elder, so I will take a look and do some research on the box elder tree. I honestly don't know anything about them. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@DleeNelson]

@@MacJackal yeah it looks like a box out of me I don't know if it really is though that's just the way I see it

[@georgewilson2185]

That is red oak for sure.

[@aaronschoenherr737]

Hope you've weathered the arctic blast!

[@MacJackal]

We survived! It was a bitter one. How did you guys fare up there in Sota?

[@roryknapp949]

I am in se Iowa in the bottom of Iowa county

[@MacJackal]

That's cool. Kind of near Kalona.

[@henrystrickland1256]

Looks like maple to me

[@brokendad2222]

If it is your property, do the dirt work because you are most likely going to be back this way for more timber.

[@MacJackal]

Yup, I agree. Either way, I'll be back this way just to drive around the property.

[@ronaldclark1178]

Why go to all the trouble of moving the tree out of the crouch when you have a wheel tractor with a front loader? I guess, what ever works for you! Great videos!!

[@MacJackal]

Thanks for watching! The video doesn't really show how steep some of the terrain really is. Personally I would tip the tractor trying to get to that log. Otherwise I would absolutely use the front loader. I'm currently looking for a better piece of equipment to get the job done.

[@ronaldclark1178]

@@MacJackal Figured there was a logical reason. thanks for answering. PS Just the thoughts of a 75 year old man. thanks again.

[@MacJackal]

@ I appreciate you taking the time.

[@lukelizotte2813]

Easy to confirm or disprove it is a maple. Maple trees have opposite arrangement of the twigs coming off of the branches. Elm and most other trees do not. Ash trees also have opposite arrangement.

[@MacJackal]

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[@codybarnhart7161]

Sometimes splitting it can help identify. Is it straight grained or stringy. Bark looks like an elm to me

[@MacJackal]

Yeah, that's a good idea.

[@orlandomartinez4031]

great job and be careful what chainsaw is that

[@MacJackal]

Thank you. Stihl Ms310

[@OutsideInThe515]

Being your in SE Iowa, I’m gonna guess maybe some kind of maple. I’m in central Iowa so I’ve cut wood in SE Iowa and have seen maple down there like that

[@MacJackal]

That's what I'm leaning towards. Where at in central Iowa are you? I went to college in Ames, so I'm somewhat familiar with Central Iowa.

[@OutsideInThe515]

@ we’re just north of Des Moines a few miles. In between Ankeny and Des Moines

[@MacJackal]

Very cool. I've been past there many times!

[@ervintaylor6508]

Could be sweet gum?

[@MacJackal]

I've never seen a sweet gum this far north. I've seen them in Missouri. Cool tree!

[@DonaldAlbrecht-c1g]

Boxelder

[@johnlonghair6461]

It's a lindon or maybe a bass wood.

[@timmikesell7]

I don’t think it’s a birch. Bark is all wrong.

[@MacJackal]

Yeah, I'm leaning more towards Maple as I gain more info.