We spent the majority of both Saturday and Sunday of this weekend removing the three trees at the back of the proposed cabin site. The trees were cut down rather quickly but then dealing with cutting up the trees and stacking the wood is what took the longest.
My wife and I celebrate progress temporarily in the picture below before beginning the process of cutting up the downed trees.
The tree to the left above is the largest of the two and is rotten in the middle. I was concerned about dropping the tree in a decent location with all of the rot but it worked out well. The rotten middle is shown in the picture below. The center was rotten to some extent up to about 12' high were a large limb broken off in years past.
It is hard to tell from the picture but I believe the medium size tree which was cut down was about 45 years old based on the grown rings. I've not looked it up personally but my mom indicated the trees were all cedar elms.
In the end, we had the beginnings of a large stack of fire wood, four stump seats, and the bulk of the large rotten tree left to cut up but we called it a weekend.
