I did a check of the roof from the ground this morning, everything looks good up there. I didn't see any trees down near the house so I'm not sure what caused the noise/shaking.
Glad everything was ok with the house. Happy that your shoulder is better. Nice work in the woods too, looks good with the snow.
After having some surgery done earlier this month, today the Doc gave me the ok to start working again with a common sense approach (listen to your body) so once the snow softens up and we lose some, I'll start up on this cherry and birch in the back gully. The surgery should also take care of any pain I had in the shoulder. Tomorrow I'll get the 310 and the 311 ready for cutting and take the Rhino for a run since I use it in the area I'll be cutting. In pic 1417 you can see the cherry across the gully and in 1418 is a birch (not sure what kind) that was broken off by some wet heavy snow.
I finally took care of the uprooted Cherry and the Yellow Birch which had the top partially broken off by some wet heavy snow. I took did the Cherry first and the Yellow Birch last, once I started breaking through the snow, I called it a day. There's still 16 inches of snow in some spots but this warmer weather coming in should get rid of most of the snow in the gully.
Thanks T.Jeff Veal , it felt good running the chainsaw today, the shoulder feels fine at the moment but we'll see what tomorrow morning brings. I had a long tailed weasel down in the gully going in and out of a few different holes while I was bucking up the Cherry. Attached is a picture I grabbed off the net, when I would get the camera, the weasel would go in its hole.
My plan this spring is to fell more Ash from this hill but the gully is still blocked off because of the snow so I finished up the Yellow Birch from yesterday ( 3rd picture) and felled a small Ash. After felling the Ash I went over to the Rhino for some water and a apple, that's when the two deer showed up for a meal, I watched them for 15 minutes before they left. Hopefully by the middle of this week, enough snow will be gone that I can just fell about five or six Ash form the backhill and get the Rhino in the gully. I'm also hoping that the two entrances to our bigger lot will have lost enough snow that I can check for tree damage from the winter.
Looking good up there. Looks like a good bit of snow is still around. Hope you don't have too much mud to deal with.
I was telling Backwoods Savage last night that we haven't had much rain so things are drying out pretty fast even though we still have snow in certain areas. I'm hoping by Wednesday some of the trees I plan on felling will have lost enough snow around them that my escape routes are open. We should start this spring off with between 47 to 49 face cord in inventory, hopefully I get our usual 12 face cord in the spring so some of the open stacking areas are full. The sun will be pretty strong for the next three days with the temps hitting the mid 60's so we'll lose a good amount of snow. Our bigger lot should be open by then so I'll see what the winter damage is back there.
I had two jobs that needed to checked off the list, the first was bucking up the Ash mother nature took down and move the rounds out of the trail in the gully so the wife could get through and the Rhino. I had seen the forecast for rain coming in today, I didn't get wet bucking up the Ash but when I moved the rounds out of the trail, mother nature gave me a shower in the woods . Picture 1576 is the downed Ash, 1577 is the Cherry and Yellow Birch blocking the trail that I moved, 1578 is the entrance to the gully I used this morning, 1580 is the bucked up Ash tree and the last picture is where I opened up the trail.
Most of the bigger Ash from this end came down last year but I'll get what's left this spring along with some damaged Yellow Birch.
I will be nice to really get back out in the woods without mich snow and hopefully good trails. Keep at it.
Every time I get going, it either snows or the winds are high enough that I won't fell any trees on the backhill. The winds brought snow early this morning (a few inches) but the winds were still here so we went for some groceries. I think we have another system coming in on Friday night that will dump more snow on us, hopefully it's not much.
