So this is interesting. My son and I were looking at the big spar I recently dropped, it's dry rotted in the center...apparently all the way up. Tree was laying on the trailer with the butt into the breeze from the west, and cool air was coming out the top. The wood fibers must act as an evap...
I stopped and looked at these a while back. Thought I had posted pics. Decided not to bother the landowner about taking them down. Maybe I should have. Looks like one fell across the driveway and had to be moved. I left my card today.
So this year Hell season extended into October, and we didn’t get summer rains. We have a lot of dead or damaged trees around. I have noticed while traveling around that the trees that consistently get water or live in cooler wetter climes are healthy, it is the trees on their own in the desert...
It’s to be cut up into bonfire/fire wood where it lands. Anything I drop outside the fence I will have to drag around and inside. Not a big deal but quicker easier if it’s all flopped inside.
I know what you mean about processing from the bucket.
Lots of room to the inside, opposite where it wants to go. I could maybe deal with the fence but there are also canals, roads, and power line. If I flop it in the yard it can be cut up and left there and they will burn it.
Went to look at removing this one yesterday. Heavily weighted opposite the lay. Probably 5’ dbh, maybe more. Very codom. Not sure if my 6x6 would pull it over if I went to the trouble to rig it to pull evenly on all the stems. So maybe the much less cool method of taking off everything outside...
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