Todays Project - What did you do today?

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This mornings project. We had a bad windstorm this summer. Took down a lot of timber. Including this little JEM. A friend is looking after some cleanup back on crown land behind me. He took me for a tour Friday, this was at the edge of the log landing, guess when his boss drove in and saw it he nearly had a heart attack. Butternut is a protected tree hear due to a blight that is supposed to be whipping them out. He thought they'd cut it by accident, guess its a heck of a fine for a contractor and especially on crown land. His words were get it out of here before someone see's it. Went down with the tractor to buck it up and load it. One of the guys was coming out with a load of big pine behind the skider. He ended up dragging it out of the bush, cutting it up with my saw and loading it. Guess I'll be back this aft with a box of beer.
The butt log was 19 inches tapering to 18. Got 6, 8 foot logs and one 4. Scaled the load when I got home, 591 board feet, the last I checked it was going for $7 per foot, you can do the math.