Moss Covered Jackpot

[chet]

4 or 5 years ago while makin' firewood I found a wind blown cherry tree layin' on da ground. It was a nice sucker, better than a couple of feet on da stump. I was pithed at myself dat I hadn't spotted it sooner so that I could salvage it. It was obvious dat it had been there for quite so time so I pretty much gave up on it.   :'(
Well today I drove past dat moss covered old girl again, only today (don't ask me why I waited until today  :-[ )  I stopped and sunk a saw into er. WOOOWWWW...............maybe an inch of rotten sapwood and da rest just bright beautifull cherry wood.   8)  8)  8)
Dar is now a nice pile of cherry logs sittin' in front of da mill shed. 

[beenthere]

Wow!!  and 'no' pic?  Hmmmm?  We really believe you, but then again.....with 'no' pic, what can we say?.......

[chet]

A guy dat ain't smart enought ta check a tree like dat, ain't smart enough to remember ta take pictures.  :-\  You'll have ta settle for pics of da lumber when I saw it. 

[Jeff]

I wanta see pictures of the logs in front of the shed.

[leweee]

Come on Chet you know you wanna ;D

[Frickman]

I've cut cherry that's been on the ground for ten years or more. It ages up to the prettiest drak red color you've ever seen.

[chet]

This stuff has been on da ground every bit of 10 years. I think tomorrow I'm takin' my saw and goin' rottin' log huntin'.   ;D

[Frickman]

Chet,

Black walnut, if any grows in your area, is another species that keeps well.

[Ron Scott]

Yes, "downed cherry" will last awhile. Most loggers here will pick it up as a "bonus". Usually don't have much problem getting it cleaned up.

[Frickman]

Ron,

Around here it not always a "bonus". I've seen foresters mark downed trees like this on bid sales. Whether its been marked or not, I like cleaning it up.   ;) ;)

[Ron Scott]

We will mark and charge for it if it has just gone down during the growing season and the top still showns some green, but if it has been down and "dead" for a few seasons, we let the logger take it for salvage, if he wants to; especially if the logger has been doing a good job overall.

A good logger deserves a "bonus" now and then. ;)

[oakiemac]

I cut some cherry a few years ago that had been down for over 2 years and it was all very nice stuff. Ya don't find that in red Oak.

[Ernie]

Without pics, this could be another one of those Chet jokes

[chet]

   :D  :D  :D  :D  :D  Good one Ernie   ;D

[crtreedude]

So Chet - where are those pictures? I learned very early on this group that the most important piece of equipment that was required was a digital camera.  ;)

And here you are a administrator and showing a bad example for us impressionable types...  ;)

We have some trees here that will stay on the ground for decades, Tempisque, Corteza, Amendro just to name a few. I just spotted on the second finca a heart of Ojoche which is very valuable. The sapwood is gone, just a narly heart is left.

We also found a recently down tree that looks very good. And none of us know what it is - even our forestry engineer.

[OneWithWood]

Chet, do I hafta go out and take a pic of some cherry sittin in front of my barn?  ;)
or
are you gonna do what you need to do and post that pic?  :D

[Kirk_Allen]

Better take the pic Robert.  He aint got no Cherry :D

[SwampDonkey]

Western red cedar and yellow cypress can lay on the ground for decades in the mud and moss and be salvaged for logs and shakes.

[SkidrowJoe]

Only believe a 1/4 of what you hear and 1/2 of what you see. :D

[chet]

I decided I ain't gonna take no pictures.  ;D   :D  :D
Da boss man is headed up this way in a couple of weeks so we can do some fishing.
I'll save one or two of dem logs and let him tell ya all what I got.   

[Onthesauk]

I had a road cut in about a hundred yards up a ravine a few years ago and the excavator operator pulled out a 40 foot western red cedar, about 30 inches in diameter that had been on the ground since the mid 50's.  No more then about half an inch on the outside is punky and then solid and red under that.  Just haven't gotten around to doing anything with it yet.

[Tom]

It's reported that there are nine, LINK>>24 foot diameter, 60 foot long Redwood logs off the Pacific Coast worth$2,000.000.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Poor guy :D :D :D :D :D

[isawlogs]

 Tom
  Now there is a salvage that I would like to see happen ... then i would really like to see the mill that would saw those up ...  8)

[Ron Scott]

Maybe a good place to use some of that "large" logging equipment. ;)