Nope, not even drinking. I can't keep up with you kids with all your new toys and gizmos and stuff......
I did a bunch of trail work with it when it was hot last year, the a/c was real nice and the cd player got a workout.
Sorry about this brother, but I'm sending all the cold poor weather your way as we have had our fill!
We received 5 inches of snow but the sun and the wind took care of anything on the northside of the house. We have some warm temps coming in with some rain so it will all be gone soon. We're still burning Pine during the day and with the cooler temps lately, we've been burning a load of hardwood at night. Our lowest temp in the morning was 23 today.
Before the snow came in, I did have some Ironwood that needed splitting (some rounds) and the rest just needed stacking. I ended up with a full face cord which gives us 4.5 face cord in our inventory. Hopefully tomorrow, I'll get another Yellow Birch on the ground and buck that up and then split it. I have another damaged Maple up top that will come down next and then maybe start splitting and stacking everything. I always like it when I get 12 face cord c/s/s in the spring but I might be short of that number but we'll see.
I put two loads of Pine needles on the trail going up through what we call the bowl, they went on the right side when you're heading up which was the lowest side. After talking with our neighbor, I did a trail check on the rest of our property. The only thing across the trail was a small Maple that I bucked up and brought home.
Not pictured was a load of Ironwood from up top and a nice long ride with the wife when I dug up four bags of leeks for two neighbors. I finally felled the last Yellow Birch in the sandpit area, it had a heavy peppermint smell to it, it's all bucked up and ready to split. I didn't cut my usual 12 face cord this spring but after spitting & stacking what I did cut, I should have a total of 52 to 53 face cord up.
I filled a face cord stack (the third stack in from the left) that was about 1/4 full before today, I added some Yellow Birch and Maple to it. Before I did the above, I took a load of leaves up to the trail I've been working on, the boss raked them up yesterday. We're finally getting some rain, Accu has us getting about half an inch. From left to right we have, a face cord of seasoned Ironwood, a face of Beech, a face of Beech, Sugar Maple, Soft Maple, Yellow Birch and the last stack in the front row is another face of American Hophornbeam or Ironwood.
Thanks buZZsaw BRAD , I didn't get the 12 face cord I usually get but that's my fault. I think that I have another two face cord bucked up along with another two damaged Yellow Birch coming down. I have a big trail clearing job this summer up top, it's mostly downed dead rotting White Pine but we also have some damaged hardwood in that area, I've never had a trail in that area since we bought the land so I'm not sure what else is in there.
I took another load of leaves, pine needles and some bark up to the trail I've been working on, after that I picked some Ironwood up that I cut after putting in a new trail early this spring. I grabbed another Ironwood that was starting to rot on the backside, that pretty much made a full load which I brought down to the new splitting area until I open up an area for stacking a face cord. The second picture is the Ironwood I felled.
buZZsaw BRAD , this is some of the Pine that I'll need to move for our new trails which I plan on doing this summer.
The first two pictures are of a Hemlock widowmaker mother nature create two or three years ago, with the heavy rains we had yesterday along with some good winds and three inches of wet heavy snow, it's down. The first two pictures are from when it happened and the last two are from today.
The wife informed me this morning that a branch from a Cherry tree was down across a walking trail and the UTV trail so I bucked that up before checking the all the other trails. Picture 1741 is the back gully, 1742 - 1747 is the downed Cherry branch, 1748 - 1750 is an existing trail that will be cleared once I bring my mudder chains with me, 1751 is an old skidder trail that I finally cleared out by hand, this trail will give me more room for the Kubota and the last picture are some Beech rounds.
I cleared the trail coming off the hill, I think the wood in the picture is Ash but I'm not sure, I did go down it but on the way back, I took my regular route. The trail I cleared today needs some work near the bottom where it has a pretty good dip on the right side when heading down.
