Spring Comes Early - Work Resumes

The sun is shining, the air is warm, breathe deep that 293 ppm carbon dioxide.  Sometimes ya gotta love this whole climate change thing.  I wasn't expecting to get too much done this early in the season but I can't ignore fine weather like this.  We have a lot of digging to do but first we have got to get a couple of big trees out of the way.

Nick is standing in front of the two trees we plan to take down this week.
They are fairly large and we plan to save the trunks for future lumber.

Cutting the first tree.

It falls neatly into our level dig site.
This type of oak does not grow very straight but the wood has a beautiful dark color.

This was a fairly good size tree so the logs are going to be rather heavy.

We got three 13 ft lengths of wood out of this tree.
This is the last, and heaviest, section.

The three logs loaded onto our new wood crib for long term storage.
We still have to seal the ends.