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Getting ready for frozen ground.

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  1. Slocum

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    C65465FA-DF90-4D02-AD88-89A604C86572.jpeg 7BB62EFB-5BCE-4FED-8A8D-85AD783F33B8.jpeg If the guessers are right we should have frozen ground next weekend. At least froze enough to get some wood out without destroying trails. I started with dropping a sugar maple that is barely alive. To bad cause it was a nice tree.

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    Dropped a ash tree.
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    Tried to salvage some of a blowdown cherry.
     
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    F0D45467-2121-426B-8729-F606C23D710B.jpeg I got the winch hooked up and hope to get some wood out next weekend.
     
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    Staying busy is good, getting wood is gooder!!!
     
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    Missed this thread. Some nice looking wood. :thumbs: Too bad about the sugar maple dying. Did the mouse come out after you bucked thelog? Still looking for frozen ground here. Havent had much here. Have you hit the locust any more Slocum ?
     
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    HEEEEEY!!! WAIT A MINUTE!!! Thats a Stihl bar on a Husky saw!!!
     
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    Barely missed the mouse, no I haven’t been back to get more locust. They just started letting us cut wood and I don’t want to mess it up. It’s so muddy I don’t want to make to big of a footprint.
     
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    Yep. Just traded for that saw with a coworker. My first husky.
     
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    They need all the help they can get.:rofl: :lol:
     
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    now thats funny right there..lol:rofl: :lol:
     
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    What brand of winch Slocum?
     
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    Uniforest 35m
     
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    Thanks. I was just talking to the local dealer and he quoted me around $3800 for the 45m. Not sure if I want to look for used or go new.
     
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    I'm betting there will be plenty of folks happy to see some frost in the ground.
     
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    Wife told me a bit ago we're supposed to be in the low 20's by the end of the week. :dex: Look out dead ash tree's.:saw:
     
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    Yeah, I see where we will be near the zero mark late this week.
     
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    Worth the investment in my opinion. You can pull a lot of wood out in a day when you don’t have to cut a road to get to it.
     
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    We’re are going negative again.. sometimes you can be less than O

    nice wood there:yes:
     
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