I didn't get any firewood but it's that time of year I'll need to make sure the trails are clear before the first big snows hit. It was fun getting back in on the property I cut on, it seems like I've been cleaning up the dead or dieing pine on the house lot forever.
I cut my first load of the fall Saturday before last. Load of silver maple. Dropped 2 sugar maples also & there is a couple cherries already on the ground. I had hoped to get up a few evenings this week but it looks pretty wet for the next few days.
All my planned felling is on the side of a hill so until it dries out, I'll look for some damaged trees on some flat ground.
So far in 2020 I’ve cut and split 1 cord. Sadly East KY winters have been mild since returning in 2016. I’ve got nearly 8 cords split and stacked but don’t want to get too far ahead until some actual cold weather hits this area.
I don't suppose you're anywhere near Pikeville? I used to work with a couple screwball brothers from there.
I think this week after the rain stops, we'll put in two more loads of pine and make the switch over to hardwood. We should have close to three face cord of pine left for the spring of 2021.
I spent the day checking certain trails and getting some American Hophornbeam. Picture 1059 is what we call our small ravine, 1061 is our bigger ravine and both didn't have anything down across the trails, 1062,1063 and 1066 is a Maple that came across our trail from another person's property so I cleared our trail and then bucked a bunch of it up and left everything, I'll call the guy this week, 1068,69 & 70 are some American Hophornbeam I brought home that finished a face cord stack and the last two are from one of the highest trails we have on our property.
The biggest of the rounds are mostly rotten, last year there was another Soft Maple that came across our trail from that same neighbor, it was all rotten.
Do you find that the American Hophornbeam grows just so big then die and fall over like some type of root rot? I love the way it burns.
Still the right thing to do. Legally at least in these parts that wood is yours if it falls on your property but I would do the same as you did.
I think it is the same here but would have to check on that. Our neighbor out front had a big Cherry blown over on our property so I called him and he didn't want any so all of it want in our stacks.
Even though I cleaned the pellet stove this spring, I did a good check on everything today so we'll see if the old Yankee has some life left tonight since the temps will be in the high 20's.
It looks like tomorrow we'll take another rotten pine down, we'll take it the opposite way it's leaning because of a storage shed and some other pines so we'll get a cable on it along with some help of the Rhino. I don't think there will be much if any good wood for a hinge but I hope I'm wrong.
With the help of the wife on the Rhino, we put this dead pine by the storage shed on the ground, since it was leaning back toward the shed and rotting, we put the cable on it hooked to the winch on the Rhino. I split most of it and then took 6 or 7 loads over to the outdoor fireplace, plenty of rain coming in tonight that I'll have it gone by tomorrow afternoon.
We had another good hard rain early this morning so I bucked up and split what was left of the pine we took down yesterday. I had enough dry pine covered with a tarp that once I got the fire going, the rest of the pine was easy burning.
