Nice work fishingpol , not only the firewood but putting in some trails on the property makes a huge difference.
Still snow free and frozen ground here. Just a little slick mud where the sun got to it. I got into the thick with this spruce today. Used the MS170 to limb and buck it. Slow and steady won today. I started from the base and worked forward, bucked from the top back. It was a double leader, double the rounds. I grabbed a cart of gnarly cherry and sugar maple. 2 carts of the spruce. All the rounds are piled by the barn. I should be able to split it this weekend.
Ni Nice pile of wood you had to clean up anyway. You might get some dry hours Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning.
Late winter update. I had a large maple limb fall at work about a month ago and added to the process pile. The maple is under the saw. A dead norway spruce fell from the windstorm the other day out back. I cleaned that up today. I'll haul it to the process pile maybe this weekend. Too muddy and icy out to get the splitter out. I could haul wood to where it is, but that is a lot more work than needed. Snapped at the woodpecker holes. I'm having a tree company out for 4 big cherry leaners along the property line. I should see a few cord out of those. I'll be close to 10 cord. Lots more down out back, poplar, pine a few more spruces and some small maples to make room for a tree crew.
You've come a long way Jon, it's been an amazing journey/thread. So much more land than your old house on the Ave.
I'm replying to my own post on this thread from a year and a half ago, kinda weird. I recently bought a new house 2 hours north of where I live now. Now I have to move and install a stove and bring some wood up north and start new stacks all over again myself. Little did I know then, where I'd be now. And of course, we have to put in a new garden. Lots to do.
Congratulations! You should be in a great area 2 hrs north. Any idea of what brand stove is going in? I wondered why at my age I would do the move, but it was out of necessity and I have no regrets.
Well Seasoned said he may be able to hook me up with a stove, I'm not too worried about what make/model now. I'd just like to get a stove in for next winter. Same here wondering why move at my age as well, so much stuff to bring. I'm sitting on 12 cords C/S/S here and want get most of that to the new place over time. I'll have 5 acres on a dirt road to build my trails and cut from.
I hope you have some time off this summer to get all that accomplished! It will be so with it to have 5 acres, and you'll be closer to your camp too!
Thanks, we'll see what we can done. Rome wasn't built in one day. It will be nice to be closer to camp.
You're the best! Mrs. Mt. Man just bought the pizza oven for her Camp Chef cook stove. You inspired her, (and all the other girls) at the gtg. You made some some great pizza and every single piece was devoured by all. Thanks!
I set up the splitter early this morning. Here was the pile to tackle today. Our son ran the controls and I fed machine. A short time in, piling up quick. Stopped to stack. Son was practicing with the X 27 but rolled rounds to where I was sitting. Went vertical for the large spruce and hemlock rounds. I found a bit of carpenter ants, and those splits went way out back to a new rot pile. We probably could have finished, but some rounds were well frozen to the ground. As the sun came around the stacks, I took out the persuader and knocked them loose. I had already packed the splitter away, but I restacked these in front to thaw. The area got raked out, and the grill is free and ready. Cheeseburgers tonight. Such a huge difference with the stacks cleaned up from the winter. Holly was outside with us for a good part of the day and she is wiped. This was the first day she has spent any real length of time outside since we got her this winter. She is a woodpile dog for sure. Just those last rounds to fill the stacks and I'm done processing big stuff until the tree company comes and drops the four cherries out back. Just about a cord and a half done today. I'm wiped like Holly.
How did I miss this thread!! I Heard about fishingpol move before it happened Now NH mountain man is moving to bigger land too. Egaads Does this make WeldrDave a slacker
I moved some more rounds and limbs last evening for processing today. Cut a few larger rounds to size and got at it. Beautiful 60 degrees and a slight breeze off the ocean. Pic at starting. Went vertical for most of the pile. The rounds are heavy. It takes time staging and rolling rounds to the splitter, but I took my time. Halfway I'd say. Got about 3/4 of the rounds done in 3 hours with a few breaks and moving rounds. Nice to get more than a dozen splits out of a round. The cherry was stringy and I fought a bunch of them apart. I'm going to let these think for a few weeks before stacking to let some moisture evaporate. Ended up with a cord I say. Still have two more piles of rounds in different places. Should see three cords out of this I think.
