Work Done In 2020

We both had something last January too, we had been to a few Division 1 hockey games when all the crap started, we probably should've stayed home but we didn't and right before the playoffs started, they cancelled everything.

I'm pretty sure Harvard and Yale didn't wait for the ECAC to make a decision whether the playoffs would go on or be cancelled, they said you can do what you want we're out. The ECAC made a new schedule for the playoffs but that was cancelled, they made a new schedule for the ECAC final in Lake Placid and then they cancelled that, when you cancel hockey in this neck of the woods, chit is serious.

 

Today I took care of the tops from two Yellow Birch, there isn't any big wood but these rounds will burn. I did get all the small branches off to the side with some on the backhill but I can get through the trail after I cleared everything that was down. I did drag one top out of an old trail using the rhino, it also put me cutting in an area that had some shade.

One of the pictures is the gully at the base of backhill that will need limbing up more for our RTV.

 

Because of the warmer winter we had, we have two plus face cord left from last year. Two face cord will stay in the same area and what's left in the next stack will get stacked in another area which we will burn this fall.

By moving some of that last stack, it will give us room for our fall wood I plan on cutting.

 

In the picture is some white pine for the shoulder season starting in the fall of 2021, most of that has been split for almost two years. I plan on having just under four face cord stacked by this coming Wednesday.

 

Not breaking any speed records with this heat and humidity however I am making some progress in the wood lot. Pic 1 is where I started and Pic 2 is where the pile of rounds is at as of this afternoon. Only have about 2.86 cords split so far but it's progress. Two stacks finished (at 1.25 cord apiece), starting on a third, and one ugly bin full (at approx. .36 cord). I still have all the wood in the piles in the back to split as well (mostly oak) so no shortage of wood to process.

 

Looks good EODMSgt , what type of Oak is it?

 

It's all red oak. Most of it was green and cut this year however there is a small amount of older, dead and down stuff. I'm currently sitting on close to 11 cord of hardwood (no oak) CSS already, with 8+ cord already seasoned for over a year. All the oak will go into its own stack(s) for use in a few years. If I can get 3 more cord out of what's still unprocessed in the lot, I'll be further ahead than any other year so far at +/- 14 cords. And I still plan on scrounging as much as I can through the rest of the year.

 

Correction there is quite a bit of red oak mixed into the seasoned stacks however that was all long-dead stuff.

 

Did you start on making that area bigger?

I was going to cut some Ironwood today but made a trip to water some flowers in the cemetery, when I finally came home it was raining pretty good until 3:30.

 

I haven't worked on it in almost two months but I did get the area cleared and four dump loads of fill spread out. I'm trying to get the wood processed to clean up the area in front and give me room to maneuver. I had hoped to have the expansion done this year but if I don't finish it, I'm still farther ahead than I was before. What will take the longest is building some sort of retaining wall.

 

Finally making progress despite the heat. The front pile of rounds is almost finished being split and stacked. Going by the cord calculator, so far I've gotten just over 4 1/4 cords out of the pile (each of the new stacks is 1.25 cords and the 1 1/2 bins of uglies is just over 1/2 cord) . Based off that, I'm estimating I have around 3 cords left to split and stack between what's left in the front pile and all the rounds and logs in the back. Not bad for scrounging late winter/early spring. (First pic is where it started.)

 

I finally started stacking pine after getting the ok from P.T., I did one small load today and three small loads on Monday.

 

I started making a trail wider and higher so the RTV won't get a light taken out by some branches. I took a total of three American Hophornbeam from up top and one more that fell across a trail we use for walking.

 

A few more pictures, the Brook is pretty low which is normal for the end of August.

 

I started some cleanup of a pine mother nature brought down months ago, the chitty rounds were split and taken to the outside fireplace and the better rounds will get split and stacked for shoulder season wood.

I have a chit load of branches which might get hauled to the wood dump. The area in picture 0736, I would like that all cleaned up before the end of September, a possible new trail could go in there and it would allow me more room for snow storage in the winter if needed.

 

You guys have such flat woods. I'm jealous.

 

Around the house until you head south and the hill begins, we have plenty of hills on the part I usually cut on.