I helped the wife with some grocery shopping today so working in the woods started late. I took the smaller Yellow Birch in the picture and then lowered some stumps on the backhill from Ash I felled 1 or 2 years ago.
I planned on felling some Ash but the footing wasn't that great so I felled three Yellow Birch but only two pictured.
I decided to take my first trip back in on part of our property the Brook runs through. Most of the stuff down wa forearm size branches which I tossed off the trail until I came across the dead pine. I felled two maple that were rotting from the top down and left them there for deer food. I also felled two damaged ironwood which I brought home.
Happy Easter. Today I felled three Beech and one Ironwood. The first three pictures are the first Beech, the next four the second Beech, the next three are the third Beech and the last two are supper.
The Beech, Ironwood and the Maple were split today, hopefully tomorrow I can check the trails on the bigger piece of our property for downed wood.
I finally made my way back in to the other piece of our property for the first time this year, most anything that was down on the trails was about wrist size branches but the last area I checked had part of a Beech down. I bucked that up and brought it home, I split that and stacked it along with one load from the Beech I split the other day. In picture 1653 is another Beech that has some damage to the top but there's a bad widowmaker behind it.
I made three neighbors happy getting These oaks off one neighbor To block up and give to two other neighbors for their firewood stacks The homeowner fed me The largest blocks We'll try to split with a splitter If not I'll cut them down to more manageable pieces.
I finished stacking the Beech today, one face cord and started another face cord of Maple with some Beech. The pictures are of the wood I hauled off the hill to our house.
I started putting in and cleaning up some trails in the area I worked today. The first few pictures was a Ironwood in the middle of the new trail, it had some rot in it about five feet up. We also had a few damaged Ironwood that I felled and brought home, there also was one small Maple that was bent over so I took that. Most of my time was spent clearing downed dead branches from some trails. The first three pictures will be a section of a new trail and the first Ironwood, 1675 is some of the junk wood taken off the trail, 1678 is the small Maple that is bending over, 1679 is the two topped off Ironwoods, 1681 & 82 is the two Ironwood and 1683 is a Cherry that will need to be pulled up the hill in sections.
In 2018 when I was clearing the pine and cleaning the area up where the garage was going, a bunch of the stuff was dumped here. Today I raked out the bigger pieces and tossed them over near some trees and raked the area out again. I put seven loads of leaves, pine needles and some two year old ash from the outside fireplace in this area, it will be a new trail that will go to the entrance to what we call the sandpit. I can also get the tractor back in here with the forks to get some of the bigger pine out of the way.
WTH? Are congrats in order for you? Looks like you traded in the rhino for a kubota or does it belong to someone else???
RTV-X1100C FULL-SIZE DIESEL UTILITY VEHICLES We kept the Rhino and the RTV has a nice Boss V-Plow which got plenty of use during the winter.
