So I took my two grandsons to a local municipal playground yesterday.
After playing on the swings and slides and teeter-tooters and .... and
watching a bit of a little league game, and going to the "potty" 5
times, etc. they decided they wanted to walk through the woods
surrounding the playground and part of the municipal park. So we go
walking along the paths and come across various trees that had fallen
across the path during the winter or spring. These had been cut uo to
clear the path. This finally caused me to notice that I was walking
through a large (couple of hundred acre) cherry forest. Many of these
trees were upwards of 24" diameter and quite tall before branching
out. There was some other hardwoods, including walnut, hickory and
maple, but I would estimate that at least 80% were cherry.
Unfortunately, these will never become lumber for our shops, but I was
certainly dreaming about it :)
Dave Hall
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> across the path during the winter or spring. These had been cut uo to
> clear the path. This finally caused me to notice that I was walking
> through a large (couple of hundred acre) cherry forest. Many of these
It may be worthwhile for you to find out when then do their clearing /
cleaning of the paths every spring so you can claim some of the logs before
they're cut up.
On 11 May 2004 09:03:53 -0700, [email protected] (David Hall)
wrote:
>So I took my two grandsons to a local municipal playground yesterday.
>After playing on the swings and slides and teeter-tooters and .... and
>watching a bit of a little league game, and going to the "potty" 5
>times, etc. they decided they wanted to walk through the woods
>surrounding the playground and part of the municipal park. So we go
>walking along the paths and come across various trees that had fallen
>across the path during the winter or spring. These had been cut uo to
>clear the path. This finally caused me to notice that I was walking
>through a large (couple of hundred acre) cherry forest. Many of these
>trees were upwards of 24" diameter and quite tall before branching
>out. There was some other hardwoods, including walnut, hickory and
>maple, but I would estimate that at least 80% were cherry.
>Unfortunately, these will never become lumber for our shops, but I was
>certainly dreaming about it :)
>
>Dave Hall
find out who does their tree service. make friends with the crew
supervisor. believe me, it will be worth it.
>find out who does their tree service. make friends with the crew
>supervisor. believe me, it will be worth it.
The township maintenence/road crew clears the paths. They just hack the trees
so that the path is clear. Between it being a park (with the greenies adamant
that no logging occur) and it being steeply hilly with no roads (no bikes, 4
wheelers, motorcycles, etc. allowed), I don't think you would get much more
than a few bowl blanks out.
Dave Hall