We have the FIL's cherry tree in the trailer, the mystery cherry/oak in the truck (neither are full loads), a few lengths of maple that somehow got on the bottom of the split pile, and a hand full of mulberry in need of splitting. We have about a 1/3 cord each of white ash and elm in need of stacking. Anyway, the plan is to get all though cut, split, and stacked today. Then that's it for two week. Two weeks from now we will be taking down my silver maple and either that same weekend of two weeks later we will get Dad's two slightly smaller maples down. Unless something turns up at the tree dump down the road, we are pretty much done for the year. The nights are just getting too short for us to process after work.
And what, because your ticker is almost full? I bet you could extend it out to 25 with the space you have on your signature.
sounds like a plan, Jack. Don't overdo it (trust me I know this from experience) We're slated to remove two large pines tomorrow......I'm going to try the speed line technique with the high branches if I have the space to do it...
The ticker will be extended by the end of the day if we get the stacking done. It has a lot to do with the extra hours I am having to put in at work. As far as weekend, I am work ever other one, so that's not a great option. That is when we will process anything we find, though.
Ouch! I never really have weekends between the business and the farm, but I don't work as hard on the weekends, and firewood is part of the farm work part. And I don't think of firewood as work, except stacking I hate stacking.
That's the plan. We got plenty of work that needs done around here anyway. Mostly dishes and laundry, but also quite a bit of winterising. Going for window plastic and some caulk today. I am going to try popping the glass out of our decrepit storm windows and try matching them with the windows and making double panes until we get the money to get more of these replaced. The antique glass just isn't enough.
Believe me, I have been using it as a stress buster. And you know, when the stress of the job gets to me, the saws will get the white glove treatment.
Try replacing the windows one or two at a time. If you keep an eye out you can sometimes find your sizes for cheap. I find that appearances don't differ much between brands. Last winter when I remodeled the bathroom, I had to change out the window. I ordered one from Lowe's, installed it and can't see any difference between it and the others.
That's so nice to speed line... Friend I worked with hated the time it took to set up the extra rigging, but once you get into it, it sets up quick.. I know you can buy complete speedline kits from Sherill Supply.. Then you keep that all in it's own carry bag.. That saves a lot of dragging the brush.. Get like 6 biners and loops to start, then once all the loops are used up, just put them all together and send them up on your climbing line... More advanced rigging, you install a slide pulley on your speed line that you can control and also pull back up the rope from up in the tree... It also allows control of the speed that something will go down the rope... you have to tie it off before the you make a cut and be able to release it with the weight on the rope.. The more you get into it, the more you'll use it and like it, saving you ground labor and a mess to rake up.. Plus it will let you do more jobs... when you couldn't normally lower limb wood straight down. Just be careful side loading a speed line.. I know there is a formula that talks about these side loads... When it doubt use a bigger rope... Those double braid lower ropes are really strong.. If I remember a 1/2 DB rope is almost as strong as a 3/4 3 strand rope, almost. Main thing, practice this over a non critical or open area until you know what's going to happen, not hope.
Yes sir Gas...I bought a nice size light like the one on the left this past Spring. I was cutting every weekend and ran out of room where I stack rounds so it was either take a weekend off and css or put some light on my evenings. Those work out real nice to split by Jack, so keep a'haulin it home.
Charlie, watching that guy do that at that height was cool. The thing that amazes me is his saw gets so close to the ropes. Man if he made a mistake with his saw and hit something he didn't want to he could be a dead man quick. I don't know much about the line of work as far as climbing and taking down trees because I would not do it myself. But I wonder how many of these guys are severely injured or killed. It has to be a very dangerous occupation. Are these guys considered Arborist? I know there are many who are properly trained and experienced but also many who probably think they know enough and may not.
Gasifier, yes this guy is an Arborist... You could go to Arborist Expo's , for updates, etc.. That's what I did.. They had different say 1-2 hour seminars you could choose to go to... one could be on nothing but the latest rigging techniques or dealing with hazardous tree removals, proper pruning, feeding, insect identification and control. Lots of things to learn, even cabling trees. You have to take a written test to become a certified Arborist... The worst thing untrained tree guys did was to use climbing spurs to prune out a tree, a big no-no.. Open the tree cambium up to disease, plus on a nice smooth bark Beech tree, all those gaff marks looked like heck! So you would set a climbing line with a throw ball and then ascend your line with no climbing spikes and work the tree canopy.. Tree workers come in at the number 2 most dangerous job. Yes some people have cut their ropes... You should always be anchored with two ropes, a climbing rope and a positioning rope.. second rope is the one that goes around the tree at waist level.. Climbing rope is the one that is always above you high in the tree.. That allows you to sit in your saddle taking all the weight off your legs.. Here's a video on ascending trees without climbing spurs.. They actually make a competition out of the technique.. You use an ascender that locks on the rope as you slide it up with your hands, that's tied into your climbing saddle, then you footlock your feet around the tail of your rope, inch worming your way up... Way hard to do until you practice, practice, practice... then it becomes like riding a bicycle. Safe because you rope will have already been set in the tree using a throwball.. your tied in going up..
You must be able to tell if the tree is 100%. So it is not going to snap in two below you! That business is for a highly trained individual. Not in my future!
I here you there. I was finally able to order a new door for the north wall and it just came in. Hopefully next weekend I can put it in. Already replaced one window two years ago.
Got some 4 and 6 mil plastic that is going up today downstairs and over the upstairs stairwell window (warm, still day finally). Going to double up some of the windows and do inside and outside to try and keep us as warm as possible.
