I'm not sure what's going on tomorrow but it will either be cutting up the big rotten maple that came down across the trail or clean up some of the branches down below the new garage from last year. Cleaning up the branches will allow me to push the snow further into the woods this winter. The attached pictures are the big ole maple, maybe there's some firewood in it.
Lookin bumpy. Maybe some burl or figuring in there? Don’t know if you got some kinda mill or your friends do but might that deserve a look? It’s plenty straight....
Since it was nice and cool (42) this morning, I decided to clean the area up that a bunch branches and wood got pushed last year when the garage went up. I did get rid of three trailer loads of branches and dead pine today. I have some splitting (pine rounds) that I'll do and the chips will be used to level off some stacks where the fall ash will go.
We decided that we would have our first fire tonight so we put in some shoulder season wood, there was basswood,pine,hemlock,blue beech,yellow birch,cherry and soft maple. It's been a while since the basement has been 72 so it felt nice.
We'll.. my racks are ready. Wood for this coming heating season is identified and covered. Plus some for next year. Any racks not full, are the racks I'm drawing from for shoulder season.
I moved a bunch of old pine splits over to the fireplace with the 4540, hopefully we get rain tonight so I can burn. After I did the above, I marked 15 Ash trees for felling once the leaves get off the trees, not all the Ash are pictured.
After I marked the Ash trees I decided to get some rounds of Ash from the spring felling along with some smaller Maple rounds.
Since it rained pretty good overnight, this morning I had the outside fireplace going by 8 a.m., about 1 p.m. today we started to get alerts for possible high winds so I let it burn down and then poured a few pails of water on it. I was hoping that the junk wood I'm burning would be done before December but it should be done by the end of next week if not sooner.
This wet weather has allowed me to burn some chit azz wood that has been hanging around on our house lot from clearing of some dead pine. I start everything out with some dry pine kindling with fire starters and then add some dry pine splits until it's going pretty good and then add the wet stuff.
I'm almost ready. One more raid of Midwinter s oak vault, and I should be good I think. One last row left in the shed. Its 6X6X6 then to fill the porch bin a bit.
I took three utility trailer loads of pine branches and ash branches to the wood dump today. I almost have a new area opened up and cleared of downed branches where I can plow some snow back in the area near what we call the sandpit. Near the end of last winter, it was getting pretty tight for the tractor to turnaround but with this new area opened up, we'll have plenty of room for snow. Tomorrow might be the day I take care of a nice size basswood across our trail we use for snowmobiling.
In picture 9512 the dead pine branch was broken off and hung up in another tree so we felled another pine so we could bring it down, we did put a cable on the tree we were felling, just incase it got hung up. Most of it was bucked up into rounds but I left a section so we can mill it for boards, hopefully by next Thursday that area will be picked up.
Be glad when it's Jan 1, 2020, ::: Took me over an hour to read & catch up with your thread. Awesome work, .. Now hurry, get busy, winter is close, Snow getting close to you ?
