Loaded truck pics.

I couldn't stand having some of the dead Ash laying out in the field. I had cut a bunch down while clearing some of the woods a couple weeks ago. So today I cut two loads and took them up to the woodshed and split them. I should have been doing other things, but the thought of the logs laying on the ground getting rained on again was too much for me to let go... The HL can lay on the ground for a while and not go bad, but the dead Ash sucks up any dampness from the ground and starts going south the day it hits the ground.

Second load today


Splitting up by the woodshed

I have a few stacks already seasoned for 2 years that I will move into the woodshed also for next season that includes Honey Locust, Beech, Sugar Maple, and Ironwood. But EAB standing dead Ash gets the Golden Buzzer here and gets to pass all the normal sun bathing and go directly to the final stage, the wood shed here by the house that will get burned in the coming heating season. It will be plenty ready to go by October and saves a cycle of moving and stacking.

 

Nice looking pup. What got his attention?

 

She is just being a goober. She likes being perched on anything. If I leave the tailgate down on the truck she will jump into the bed.

 

The annual kindlin’ cuttin’, takes place the first weekend after squirrel season goes out.
My neighbor and I loaded the trucks down in about 1 1/2hr this year





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Love the obs blue ford!

 

I was able to get a third load brought over and split on Easter Sunday in between eating, facetiming, texting family and friends, and the weather being drizzly. We stayed in mostly but my wife did run over to our neices house for a food trade in the alley next to their place. 4 households participated and we pretty much had a traditional Easter meal that we all contributed to. They swapped dishes and smiles in a socialy responsible isolated kind of way.

He Has Risen.

And of course, what's Easter without watching The Ten Commandments every year. I'm sure that is the movie I have watched the most over the years. Every year, can't miss it.

Third load of Ash from the clearing area. Neighbors came over and started cutting and splitting some also.

 

Sounds shady...



Sounds like a great day!

 

LOL, I've never done anything shady, not even in a past life.... LOL The day was pretty good all in all.

 

Load of dead catalpa i cut earlier this week. Touch of sugar maple mixed in.

 

Some sugar maple and black locust. Victims of the storm here last Monday. Lots more BL to cut.

 

Nearly two year old storm downed black locust and cherry i cut yesterday. Some fresh storm downed sugar maple underneath as well.

 

Heres a fresh load of Gum with some white oak mixed in.

 

Nice load. I hope your not going to hand split the gum. Youll end up with hoarders PTSD if you do!

 

HA! Thats my only option right now. That stuff may hang around until I break down and get a splitter. i still have a bunch of other stuff that needs to be split.

 

I see you are in NJ. FHC member jrider may be close by and has a hydro. Ask him what he thinks of gum. He has some nice pics too!

 

Got a nice oak load today. It appears to be some kind of black oak variety. Only grew on the north facing shade bank, about 4 of them. Definitely different than the valley and live oaks. Great weather, great wood, went a little slow as the ranch owner had killed the first rattlesnake of the year where I was working. Extra cautious.

 

Goodness, snakes alive! Sometimes we Oregonians come to Redding this time of year just to get warm. I am very curious as to what that wood might be. There are 20 species of oak trees native to California. Here is one of your Valley Oaks out past Whiskeytown Lake - perhaps you've even seen it, just off 299 up Trinity Mountain Road. It survived the Carr Fire.

 

I spent the last few summers in Ashland or Hornbrook every other weekend as I love riding mountain bikes in Ashland. Thanks for the kind words! I have probably driven past that tree, I know the area well.

 

Gum is just plain miserable to split. And if you let it sit too long it rots quickly

 

Well thats just awful news. I guess Ill be getting that splitter sooner than later. Ive been internet browsing for one the last few days. Its only a matter of time.