Logging

[Boll Weevil]

I've seen/heard of many instances of spontaneous combustion of hay/silage and barns burning down over the years but never logging slash/debris. The other day I was cleaning up a log deck and pushed off a giant pile of bark and limbs that had been there maybe 2 mo and I'll be danged...steam came off it.

About 730p yesterday I get a text "Are ya'll burnin?" with this pic. Uhhhh no. 2 days ago I'd talked with my forester about a burn plan but we weren't planning on that til Jan-Feb but hey...looks like we got a jumpstart!

97% humidity last night, mid 50s, and rain rolled thru this morning about 5a. Daddy's headed out to take a look and loggers will be back onsite shortly but I'm thinking everything turned out ok.

 

[BSK]

Wow, never seen slash spontaneously burn before. But I have now!

 

[Boll Weevil]

That was my first thought but like any fire, could have been cause by any number of things. I called it in about 10a so crews have been onsite babysitting it till it burns itself out. Pumper trucks, about a dozen firefighters, and a pair of dozers but it's contained. Now to find out how it started.

 

[Boll Weevil]

I quit counting rings at 78. These loads only took 12-13 sticks to make DOT max load.

 

[BSK]

Cool picture Boll Weevil. Most of the timber I had cut a couple of years ago was 80-year-old White Oak. That's why we made so much for the logs.

 

[Boll Weevil]

Some years the rings are so tight can't really discern but I got to 84-86 on this loblolly. Don't lack but about 30ac to finish up but we in the big old heavy wood now. Some of these loads need even fewer sticks on the trailer to make a DOT max weight.

 

[Boll Weevil]

 

[Huntaholic]

I just sold this tree today. Thats a 28in bar on my saw. The first 2 logs brought $4000. The Lord has truly blessed me to be in the business I am in and to let me still be healthy enough to do it.