Harvesting Trees for Lumber

Harvesting Trees for Lumber

Since the election I have been catching up on this project here. Two summers ago it was digging the pond out during the drought. Nature often determines what you will and will not be working on. I still have to do the videos on the pond. That was really exciting to say the least/ There’s nothing like driving along with the front end loader filled to the brim and suddenly you find that spring someone said was there many years ago because you start to tip over as your front wheels sink into the ground like a brick in water. Lesson?

Now... Most of our trees were destroyed by hurricane Elena in 85. I was building an addition on our house at the time. My wife and children had never been present for a hurricane they were always visiting her parents in California. That was not the case for Elena. She was cheerfully washing dishes. I saw the track was going to run right over us and mentioned it to her just as the entire house shuddered from a gust. That was when she decided we needed to go. It was really interesting trying to get out of there. We drove for hours and eventually came home because there were no rooms anywhere. We were a bit broke at the time. When we returned, I shot numerous snakes on the way to the house which is a long walk from the road. I noticed leak in the pond ponds damn I had fixed now had a huge pine that had fallen on the dam, shoving an eight inch in diameter branch still attached to the tree right through my repair. I never really bothered to fix it until I had a front end loader and a drought. That was in 2023. Pond looks great now. In 86 we had the Challenger accident, and I was at work nonstop for years. The trees like I said were ruined after Elena and I let some guys cut it all and haul it away for pulpwood for the paper mill. Then I had the rest pushed into piles. I let it rot down for the sake of the soil.

I had read the works of Gene Logsdon for years and took his advice. That advice was just leave it alone. You don’t need to do anything as far as clear out the underbrush. At twenty years it drops like a rock and becomes soil. At that point you only need to clear around the edges. Those pine trees are loblolly, southern yellow and slash pine. They make great lumber and that’s what I’m doing here. These logs cut at twelve feet in length will cure for several months in the mostly shady places. I have several projects I need them for, and I’ll do videos on that as I get to it. I’ll be making boards, beams and posts etc. I will even cover how to preserve them so they actually last.

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If you decide the flee that polluted rat race city you might be interested in Gene Logsdon’s books.

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