Mud season means the equipment comes in for maintenance at the company the Mrs works for. Here’s a few pics today..,
We drove around the south side of Okemo, and there is at least a foot of snow still in the woods up there. Down here our yard is dry, but it sounds like that will change. I pulled the chains off the tractor last week because they were tracking too much mud and manure into the shop. Should be fine clearing snow without them. I assume still ample snow in the cold spots up your way?
I was hoping to buy a load of the firewood, but it is going to be left there until the ground dries out. The saw logs, being higher value, are going to be shuttled out across the town road with the forwarder, and loaded onto a straight truck with center loader. This land is owned by a retired coworker, and the guy running the harvester (orange Barko, barely visible in one pic) is a good friend who we hire to help me and my lame back with things around the farm.
It's been mud season all winter here. The ground was only solid for a few weeks at most. The local mill is pretty much shut down for lack of timber. Can't remember the last time I saw a truck full of logs going down the road.
December was bad, but they moved a lot of wood in January and February. Both my house and office are on major wood routes, and there was a lot flowing (I chuckle watching a load of firewood passing north, and another shortly after another heading south). The milk market is a bit more organized - it flows steadily south past the house.
We were dreadfully dry in July, August, September last year. My pastures stopped growing (droughty ground to begin with), but it was good for the loggers. It got wet again in the Fall.
