Press ganged the kids, 8 and 4, into helping collect some loglets today. There was a disappointing amount of cottonwood at first. Then we got to the Ash, Elm, Rock Maple, Black locust. I left the Maple and Cottonwood behind and got about 4 lengths of Ash, 1 length of Elm, 3 or 4 Lengths of Black Locust. Pretty much filled up the sedan with the kids and the logs. (The kids were opposed to walking the 5 miles back home or I could have fit more.)
Right after we'd filled the car to the brim I came up to a whole 'nother section of trimming and saw an ass load of Locust. I will need to round up a truck. I really cherry picked the lot, taking only really straight, knot free pieces.
We dropped off the logs back at home and went out again to a spot I know where there were a bunch of straight American Hornbeam saplings and harvested 3 of those. A month ago that spot yielded about a dozen very straight Red Osier Dogwood shafts.
