It is like a biscuit. We usually make it when camping and used to always make up some ahead of time when we were hunting. I remember a couple times when we were out even with our sons hunting. Around noon we'd meet at the vehicle, start a fire and roast hot dogs and bake bannock. You should see some of the looks we'd get! lol Good memories. First, cut a green stick. We usually peel the bark off where the bannock goes. 1 cup flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 tbl butter 1/2 cup cold water. Mix thoroughly and add just enough water until dough gathers into a ball. Wrap dough around the stick and roast over fire or over coals. One can stick a toothpick in to make sure it is done. When done, break off stick, add butter and enjoy!
I covered almost all the wood for this year and then the wife came out, one of the local fire departments was having a chicken BBQ so we went over thinking it would be our lunch (takeout only) they sold out in 10 minutes and we happened to be that first vehicle that was turned away. I guess they had people waiting inline for over 45 minutes in their cars, it started at 11 and we showed up at 10:50.
I didn't take any pictures but today I limbed up a bunch Pine, 1 Elm and 1 Sugar Maple along the side of the driveway. I won't have to worry about getting face slapped when plowing this winter, it will also give the business we bought the RTV-X1100C plenty of room up top when they deliver it. Thank god we had a bit of a wind when I started, it did pick up which was nice.
It was pretty windy yesterday so I decided to check the trails, nothing down which is good. I did clear some face slappers from a few trails, for some reason I never took a before picture.
After I finish some painting tomorrow morning, I'll take the painting gear out of the RTV and make sure I have some saws ready to clear some Yellow Birch from an area near what we call the sandpit, some are damaged and some are growing at a angle so the plan is to fell a few and then c/s. Some of the trees are pictured to the left of the Rhino, nothing big. After I get everything cleared, we'll go at the stumps with the 4540.
Looks good. I hope it has cooled some for you but especially hope you have gotten some of the rain we've been bless with. We worried about planting in our food plot but did anyway as neighbor had time and busy later. I said go ahead and plant. Since then we've got nearly 2" of rain!
We haven't received any rain, the last hard rain went north of us on Tuesday. I'm glad you were able to get your plot in, hopefully it grows like when you put it in. I was drenched from getting two Yellow Birch cut and over to the splitter but everything went well. Not a whole lot of wood but by taking the two trees out, that will give me another 12 feet for turning around or plowing this winter.
Here are some pictures from the work done today, I still have three more left that I want down before the end of August. I still have the top of the second tree that I'll need to buck up after I drag it off the hill.
I always feel lazy after reading your posts thewoodlands. I have made a small dent in the pile of rounds however it's been slow with this heat and humidity. Definitely looking forward to cooler weather to clean up the mess in the wood lot. Pic one is where it started and pic two is where it's at today. The rounds are like money in the bank but do look better when split and stacked. The good news is my tractor is finally in the shop and getting worked on. Maybe I'll have it back by next week.
No drone. The pics looking at the wood lot are out of a window from the loft and the last pic is off the side deck (raised basement so one story up).
It was a muggy one here too or I'm just out of shape I'm glad the tractor is getting worked on, it's always nice to have the lifting power if needed. We plan on taking another 12 face cord off the backhill and up top this fall, that will fill up our stacking areas for hardwood since I reduced what we keep in wood inventory. Feeling lazy about my post, you must've been reading my painting post I'm glad that is almost over. I also look forward to the cooler weather so the coffee taste better on the porch in the evening and I can get more firewood. Our areas luck for rain this summer continues, just over half a mile up the road received some rain today while we received chit. Another storm started in Ogdensburg NY and missed us by about 8 miles, something has to change.
Good, so far we've been careful about what we do with everything that has been going on, how about your family?
Just some pictures of the Yellow Birch (3 separate trees) that I felled today, there is still more bucking left but once I ran out of water, I called it a day. One part of this Yellow Birch was very small like a branch and the first part I felled, I forgot to take a picture. I ran the 028 Wood Boss for the first time in a while, I'll start using that more.
