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| Picture of a dead ash that was blown across Mills Highway west of Eaton Rapids. Picture taken early December 29, 2025. |
It was not windy today.
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| About an hour's worth of effort. Five, 8' posts and seven, 4' "fatties". There are two more 8' posts still in the woods. |
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| About 100 pounds of wood and my tools set for the 250 yard drag back to the house. I stopped a couple of times on the way back to catch my breath. |
I keep seeing more and more dead trees as I spend more time in the woods. Standing, dead-trees (aka, "snags") are not necessarily a bad thing but I don't want to be near them when it is windy.
I always see more dead trees in the winter. The spring leaves come out and hide the dead ones in the summer.
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Snags (aka widow-makers) are some of the best immediate-use firewood, as they are usually several years dead and well dried. I culled one from the woods this weekend and that stuff burns like coal!
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DeleteNot sure how much land you have to work with, but I know a guy with 80 or so acres in upstate New York. He has a lumber company come in every few years and harvest what hardwood they want, they leave the "tops" and some limbs on the ground. The guy goes out starting in Spring and drags the good stuff to the barn and cuts & stacks for the next winter. Not sure if there is enough land you own to ask a hardwood lumber company to come in to harvest what they might want, but if you do -
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