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Old pecan orchard - 100+ acres being clear cut
(February 2010)
They are cutting the pecan trees for the limbs - to sell to pulp mills -
below is a semi-trailer load
The trees are cut down - they gather the limbs and leave the trunks.
Soon they will pile trunks and debris into piles and burn.
A pile of trunks and debris for burning.
Mark Lindquist looking over pecan debris piles.
LINK TO BURNING PECAN
WOOD
Steve Cross and Mark Lindquist spent a day choosing and marking the best pecan
logs
from the ongoing timber harvesting operation.
Steve Cross made contact with the timber company harvesting the pecan trees
and has bought several semi-trailer loads of pecan trunks.
At Cross Sawmill March 2010
Several pecan logs at Cross Sawmill
Mark Lindquist inspecting Pecan log
Large crotch log - sawn at center of crotch
LINK TO
THIS LOG BEING SAWN FOR FRENCH COMTOISE CLOCKS
Steve Cross with Pecan logs - 3/08/2010
There are double, triple and some quad-crotch logs.
Some are really big.
Steve Cross (left) and Mark Lindquist (right)
at Cross Sawmill, Iron City, Georgia,
3/8/2010
Truck loads of pecan wood on lot at Cross Sawmill.
Steve Cross sawing pecan wood.
Mark Lindquist (left) and Steve Cross at the sawmill
Mark Lindquist (left) and Steve Cross with pecan wood at
Cross Sawmill
Steve loads sawn lumber onto his truck for one of many trips to Blakely.
Steve Cross directs Willy from Birdsong Peanut Corporation with forklift.
Steve Cross directs Willy from Birdsong with forklift.
Willy from Birdsong forklifts in the flitch bundles and sawn
boards.
Mark Lindquist stacking pecan wood.
Steve Cross preparing piles for forklift
The pecan wood is stickered for optimal drying
Several thousand board feet in different dimensions, stickered and drying.
Steve Cross with a large and ungainly pecan log at Cross Sawmill.
The large crotch section log is sawn into oval slabs for best figure.
The oval slabs are
stickered and stacked in the warehouse.
Tony keeps the debris clear of the stacks.
Mark Lindquist (right) and Tony in the warehouse at Blakely
Steve Cross with the pecan wood stacks, Blakely, Georgia
Steve Cross with the pecan wood stacks, Blakely, Georgia
A visit back to the
pecan orchard reveals the
worst case scenario for the rest of the pecan trunks -
burned for clearing...
Mark Lindquist visits the pecan orchard and finds they are burning the remaining
trunks and stumps to fully clear the land.
The logs have been pushed into large piles and set on fire.
Log after log, piled up and burned.
Reflecting on the wood in the warehouse, it was a great opportunity to have
saved 20,000 board feet of pecan wood that can be added to the Blakely Burl Tree
Project.
This aspect of the project was also made possible by the
Charles and Catherine B. Rice Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia.
Special thanks to Birdsong Peanut Corporation, Blakely, Georgia, for providing
the use of their forklifts and drivers on the Blakely Burl Tree Project.
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