I think we have enough hills that the members could work on, that we would need a food/beer truck on the woodlands. We'll save the flatland for us older guys.
I started cleaning up this area today for another area to push or keep snow if needed and with the goal of putting in another trail. Picture 0747 is what some of the area looked like before the start of the cleanup, 0750 is what will be hauled away, 0751 is some dead pine,0752 is part of a pine mother nature put down that I limbed up, 0753 is more junk pine, 0755 is where part of the trail might go through and 0756 has two more dead pine that will come down,
I started off with a little stacking of some pine for a total of just under two face cord, only needed 1.5 loads to finish it today. I was running low on kindling for the outside fireplace so I split a trailer load out of some dead pine and brought it over to the fireplace and covered it. Picture 0777 is the area I took three utility loads of branches to the wood dump on Saturday, today I brought more branches and junk wood to the fireplace along with splitting some junk rounds. Hopefully by the end of this week, the area in picture 0777 is pretty much all cleaned up. That includes c/s/s the pine that is down.
I better get more hours and miles on it, the plows should be coming in this month so they'll install it and do the checkup on it. This week is pretty much booked up so if I get another two hours on it, that would be alot. I think I saw just under 17 hours on it when I started it up last. I did some running around with it today but not much, I picked up two more loads of pine sticks/rounds and had a nice fire today. We had a short but hard rain overnight and another this morning so everything I split and brought over the other day and today is gone.
Speaking of rain. We certainly have no shortage. Dumped another 3/4" from last night. It had best slow down very soon.We need dry sunshine to finish the crops but there doesn't look to be much of that at all in the forecast. We get mostly cloudy sky in late fall and most of the winter. Maybe it will start early this year.
We still need some good steady rains and not a ten minute downpour every so often, usually September can be a real wet month here in our area.
More rain overnight but not much this time. Looks like we'll get more in a little bit. It's coming across the pond now.
We had a nice drizzle going on today so it was a perfect time for reducing the dead pine branches on the property. I did five loads after coming back from an appointment.
Thanks Woodwidow , it was going pretty good with all the old dead pine we had. We've been getting rain at night and some rains in the morning which make it safer to burn. We almost went out last night with a coffee to enjoy the fire I had going after it was dark out but I never did ask the wife, she said this morning she would've liked that. I'll make my rounds around the property for more dead pine and get it ready for the next rains, that should be Saturday night and Sunday.
I usually CSS about 6 cords a year. This year, I'm already up to 8 cords. Maybe it's all the free time I have from not going to Vegas!!
I spent a few hours getting some dead pine off the floor of the woods which will open up a few more trails into that area, all the pine is over by the fireplace waiting for our next rain which I think is Sunday. The tree in picture 0792 will come down tomorrow since it is dead which will make that turn off the main trail much easier, especially in the winter.
I took care of a dead standing pine near the entrance to a new trail (pic 0799) and then went just above the gully to start clearing a new walking trail for the wife (pics 0800,0801 & 0802) pics 0803 & 0804 are some dead pine rounds from above the gully and the dead pine I felled. All the pine branches and the rounds are over near the fireplace waiting for the rain coming in tomorrow. Pic 0798 is the first of two loads of pine we put in for shoulder season wood, we had 37 this morning. Everything thing was cleaned this morning so we'll have our first fire tonight after some pork chops and pasta.
Here's todays work Woodwidow . The first two pictures are a small dead pine I got sick of driving under so I cut it up, the second picture is taken from the backside. I basically ran around some of the trails and cleared some dead chit and then had a nice fire after it rained hard.
I started splitting & stacking some Pine today, I did three full loads (two pictured) and part of a third before we took the dog to the vets for a scheduled shot.
I decided this morning that I would finish s/s some Pine, the finished stack is two face cord. I then started cleaning up a few trails that had Ash tops in them along with dead Pine. Picture 0825 is the first load of Pine, 0826 is what I started with today and 0828 is the finished stack of Pine. Picture 0829 is what I started clearing today after stacking, it's Ash, 0830 will be a trail once I take the Ash tops to the wood dump, 0832 is when I finished today, 0833 is another Ash top and 0836 is a dead Pine that will come down and 0837 is a dead Maple.
