Dave Hoskins
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I was cutting and hauling a fairly decent sized white oak tree today. I would estimate the total haul will weigh in at about 3 tons. It's still fairly green and wet. Ran into an unusual problem. When I scooped a log up in the tractor bucket I could go nowhere. The ground is covered with about 4" thick leaf cover and then under that black mud. The tractor just spun it's tires even in 4 wheel drive. Ended up having to rip the trunk logs in half to lessen the weight in the bucket so I could go somewhere. Doing that helped, but still could only get at the wood from one direction. Oh, well. Moved all the big logs today and will get the smaller stuff tomorrow morning. That should be a bit easier. Sure wasn't counting on having to do that log ripping. That danged near wore me out. I'll take photos of the haul either tomorrow or the day after and post them. Not a bad haul but not like those hauls I did last year of red oak, elm and pecan. But, white oak is a nice wood and look forward to working with it.
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