box elder it is a member of the maple family will have red wood on the inside i live in Minnesota we have lots of box elder trees can be tricky to identify but the way you described the smell reminds me of it. It is a soft wood like a silver maple.
I do like your forwarder trailer jobby. Much kinder to the ground than skidding lengths everywhere and keeps 'em clean for the mill. Mystery tree: It's been dead a while. It's gone from 'spalting' into 'rot' and there are mature fungal fruiting bodies (bracket fungi|) just down-stem from your cut. They are horizontal with the stem lying as found, so grew there. The pink is likely spalting too - here in the UK is we see spalting 'cell' boundaries that when fresh-cut are brown, black, pink or blue. We have a fungus often seen in small branch wood on the ground that turns it to fragments and all the fragments are a bright blue-green like copper verdigris. It's known as paintsplash fungus. You may be sniffing damaged fungal mycelium in your cut end. Bark is completely wrong for any birch I've ever seen, but I've never seen America!
Wow, thanks for sharing that info. That's some great detective work. I'm leaning much more towards maple tree as I learn more. Amazing what you could see just by looking at the fungi in the video. I like that the more time I spend with trees, wood, etc. the more I learn about my environment. Thanks for watching!
@@MacJackal Thanks. I'm happy you found it useful. I'm an ecologist, relationships between species like fungi in a tree is what I do. Woodlands is a special interest, but that doesn't mean I don't fell and utilise trees. This link takes you to a firewood video that mentions the effect of fungi on firewood value of fuel logs. ua-cam.com/video/bp4HibB8MMQ/v-deo.html
Easy to confirm or disprove it is a maple. Maple trees have opposite arrangement of the twigs coming off of the branches. Elm and most other trees do not. Ash trees also have opposite arrangement.
Why go to all the trouble of moving the tree out of the crouch when you have a wheel tractor with a front loader? I guess, what ever works for you! Great videos!!
Thanks for watching! The video doesn't really show how steep some of the terrain really is. Personally I would tip the tractor trying to get to that log. Otherwise I would absolutely use the front loader. I'm currently looking for a better piece of equipment to get the job done.
Being your in SE Iowa, I’m gonna guess maybe some kind of maple. I’m in central Iowa so I’ve cut wood in SE Iowa and have seen maple down there like that
That is red oak for sure.
Nice equipment!
Thank you!
box elder it is a member of the maple family will have red wood on the inside i live in Minnesota we have lots of box elder trees can be tricky to identify but the way you described the smell reminds me of it. It is a soft wood like a silver maple.
Interesting, I never would have thought of Box Elder. Thanks for the info. Where in Minnesota are you? I lived there for about a decade.
@ good morning, I live south and west of St. Cloud near Cold Spring. Or about 7 miles west of Powder Ridge Ski area as the crow flies.
I do like your forwarder trailer jobby. Much kinder to the ground than skidding lengths everywhere and keeps 'em clean for the mill. Mystery tree: It's been dead a while. It's gone from 'spalting' into 'rot' and there are mature fungal fruiting bodies (bracket fungi|) just down-stem from your cut. They are horizontal with the stem lying as found, so grew there. The pink is likely spalting too - here in the UK is we see spalting 'cell' boundaries that when fresh-cut are brown, black, pink or blue. We have a fungus often seen in small branch wood on the ground that turns it to fragments and all the fragments are a bright blue-green like copper verdigris. It's known as paintsplash fungus. You may be sniffing damaged fungal mycelium in your cut end. Bark is completely wrong for any birch I've ever seen, but I've never seen America!
Wow, thanks for sharing that info. That's some great detective work. I'm leaning much more towards maple tree as I learn more. Amazing what you could see just by looking at the fungi in the video. I like that the more time I spend with trees, wood, etc. the more I learn about my environment. Thanks for watching!
@@MacJackal Thanks. I'm happy you found it useful. I'm an ecologist, relationships between species like fungi in a tree is what I do. Woodlands is a special interest, but that doesn't mean I don't fell and utilise trees. This link takes you to a firewood video that mentions the effect of fungi on firewood value of fuel logs. ua-cam.com/video/bp4HibB8MMQ/v-deo.html
Easy to confirm or disprove it is a maple. Maple trees have opposite arrangement of the twigs coming off of the branches. Elm and most other trees do not. Ash trees also have opposite arrangement.
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
Hope you've weathered the arctic blast!
We survived! It was a bitter one. How did you guys fare up there in Sota?
Looks like maple to me
Why go to all the trouble of moving the tree out of the crouch when you have a wheel tractor with a front loader? I guess, what ever works for you! Great videos!!
Thanks for watching! The video doesn't really show how steep some of the terrain really is. Personally I would tip the tractor trying to get to that log. Otherwise I would absolutely use the front loader. I'm currently looking for a better piece of equipment to get the job done.
@@MacJackal Figured there was a logical reason. thanks for answering. PS Just the thoughts of a 75 year old man. thanks again.
@ I appreciate you taking the time.
If it is your property, do the dirt work because you are most likely going to be back this way for more timber.
Yup, I agree. Either way, I'll be back this way just to drive around the property.
Sometimes splitting it can help identify. Is it straight grained or stringy. Bark looks like an elm to me
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Could be sweet gum?
I've never seen a sweet gum this far north. I've seen them in Missouri. Cool tree!
great job and be careful what chainsaw is that
Thank you. Stihl Ms310
It's a lindon or maybe a bass wood.
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Being your in SE Iowa, I’m gonna guess maybe some kind of maple. I’m in central Iowa so I’ve cut wood in SE Iowa and have seen maple down there like that
That's what I'm leaning towards. Where at in central Iowa are you? I went to college in Ames, so I'm somewhat familiar with Central Iowa.
@ we’re just north of Des Moines a few miles. In between Ankeny and Des Moines
Very cool. I've been past there many times!
I don’t think it’s a birch. Bark is all wrong.
Yeah, I'm leaning more towards Maple as I gain more info.