S0, it was another balmy weekend (well around here that means anything above 15 degrees)... so its another weekend of cutting logs, stacking wood, and burning saplings/tree limbs. We currently have enough wood stacked for burning wood in our fire pit for.... EVER. One of the trees that had to come down was a 200+ year old shagbark hickory. We would have moved the house to avoid, but alas we are limited where we can put our house on a 4.5 acre lot because of two wetlands. We have to be 50 feet from each of those. The wetlands really add alot of character and they appear to take care of any and all surface water runoff. One of the wetlands is an isolated shallow pond at the rear of the property. It does eventually dry up during the summer and fall, but right now with all the snow melt and recent rains, it is a large shallow pond. The 2nd wetland is mostly a drainage creek that drains from the neighbor's property to the east through ours. The "creek" widens in an area near the access road (has cattails and all the characteristic wetland plants) and then drains off our property. So... during wet times we actually have a creek on our property!
We were hoping to save this tree, but alas it had to come down, a little too close to the corner of the future garage.
cutting 
and cutting
and
cutting and...
finally...
TIMBER!!!!
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