It was a cold morning (17.2) but the sun was strong so I took the splitter up to split the beech....done. The first four pictures are of the first rounds I split, 0249 is the part of the mess I cleaned up so I could haul the splitter down to the last rounds, 0250 is after the cleanup, 0252 is after I split the rounds that were left and the last picture is more beech I'll need to buck up and that will be a new trail to the main trail. I'm hoping we get two face cord out of all the beech that is split.
This beech should've been stacked days ago so today I got off my lazy arse and stacked four loads. With what is left in the woods, I'm thinking we'll get our two face cord if not more. Before I started on the beech I checked the fluid levels on the 4540 and all were good. I used the tractor to move some chips that were used to level off an area that will hold two face cord of ash once I get it split.
I finished the two face cord stack of Beech today with more spits still in the woods, I'm thinking about felling three more Beech before everything gets green. We have a bunch of damaged American Hophornbeam (Ironwood) not far from the Beech so I took three damaged trees with more rounds in the woods.
Definitely got some leaners there. I still need to go for a walk through the woods after our last storm to see if there was any damage. Trying to get the rounds all split and stacked. Not enough time in the week. If only I wasn’t considered “essential”
That's how most of or Ironwood gets, I'm hoping we have another face cord of damaged trees. We haven't had any real bad wind events that hit our lot lately like we had years ago but that's ok.
We need it bad Backwoods Savage , I would say the water levels in the Brook are like it is at the beginning of August....low.
I'll bet that doesn't happen often. It's not bad here. They forecast a lot of rain but so far not too bad although we did get quite a bit overnight.
I felled two more Beech today, one hit the ground and the second Beech had to be dragged out of a small Basswood I thought it would miss. I'm not sure what type of fighter jets fly out of Fort Drum but it looked like a Raptor F-22 that gave me a little wing flap while going over while I was pondering how to get the Beech down, glad it was ours. Picture 0271 is the first Beech on the ground, in picture 0273 you can see the fresh dirt from where I dragged it out of the small Basswood. Both are bucked up ready for splitting once the rain and wind pushes through.
No it doesn't, we didn't have the snow we usually get and Mother Nature never gave us our April showers.
Aw heck! It was just one of our mods kicking up their heels a little! Maybe wildwest took it out for a quick spin? Could you make out the FHC logo on it anywhere?
Next time when I hear the rumble coming my way, I'll have the camera in hand. I didn't see the FHC logo on the plane but I did see Loon attached to the underside, crazy f'ing Maple Leafer.
I had a few things earlier this morning we did but I was able to clear the back gully (first 2 pics) so the wife can use it for walking and I can get the splitter in there to split some ash. After the above was done, I went up top where I had felled some Ironwood the other day and grabbed the rest.
We have way more beech than anything but none of it looks as good as that. It still burns great though...
