1/4 Mile Long 20-Ft Tall Wood Pile
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Drivers traveling U.S. Hwy. 8 near Tony, Wis., saw an unusual sight last winter - a 1/4-mile long, 20-ft. high wood pile. Marlus Heath, along with his father Tom, laid the logs there after a forest of black ash trees died out in a swamp about a quarter mile from the highway. They cut the trees down last February. "Once the ground froze, we had to cut the trees fast and get them out of the swamp before it thawed. We even had to haul gravel to one spot in the swamp that never froze. We laid the logs along a driveway near railroad tracks that parallel the highway. We used hydraulic clams to load the 100-in. long logs onto tandem axle semi trucks and pup trailers. We did all the work in about 10 days," says Heath.
"Many people stopped and took photos of family members in front of the wood pile. Some said that it had been a long time since they'd seen so much wood piled up in one spot." The logs were eventually shipped to paper mills or pallet mills, with the biggest logs shipped out as veneer logs to Japan, Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Marlus Heath, W5494 Hwy. 8, Tony, Wis. 54563 (ph 715 532-5363).
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1/4 Mile Long 20-Ft Tall Wood Pile AG WORLD Ag World 18-5-20 Drivers traveling U.S. Hwy. 8 near Tony, Wis., saw an unusual sight last winter - a 1/4-mile long, 20-ft. high wood pile. Marlus Heath, along with his father Tom, laid the logs there after a forest of black ash trees died out in a swamp about a quarter mile from the highway. They cut the trees down last February. "Once the ground froze, we had to cut the trees fast and get them out of the swamp before it thawed. We even had to haul gravel to one spot in the swamp that never froze. We laid the logs along a driveway near railroad tracks that parallel the highway. We used hydraulic clams to load the 100-in. long logs onto tandem axle semi trucks and pup trailers. We did all the work in about 10 days," says Heath.
"Many people stopped and took photos of family members in front of the wood pile. Some said that it had been a long time since they'd seen so much wood piled up in one spot." The logs were eventually shipped to paper mills or pallet mills, with the biggest logs shipped out as veneer logs to Japan, Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Marlus Heath, W5494 Hwy. 8, Tony, Wis. 54563 (ph 715 532-5363).
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