Today, I got a few trees ready to be bucked up, split & stacked. 1 Honey Locust 1 little Mulberry a bunch of Cherry’s 1 small dead Slippery Elm
Some great wood there Jim. My kind of snag! Can you send some of that sun our way please? Getting tired of this damp, wet, rainy, foggy weather here. Sloppy and not pleasant for firewooding!
This is the first bit we have had for awhile & temps are rising. The 1/2” of rain we had Monday started to take the frost out & temps are supposed to be in the 40’s for a week. It’s getting pretty sloppy here now.
I hear ya. Got stuck briefly at storage today trying to leave. It was not a pretty sight. Banana peel mud! Id like to have that freeze back from Christmas time.
I too was expecting a canopy snag mess. Nice to be able to process right beside stacks. That's a luxury I'll never know.
It doesn’t usually work this way, I had some near by fence line trees & was able to get my brothers track loader to clean up the limbs & haul them to the lot.
No stogies were had during the felling, limbing, bucking or splitting of these but I can guarantee that a stogie will be had tomorrow after I get done bucking & splitting the Pignut Hickory ; it’s the last tree I have down close to the house.
I will update tomorrow after I get done The only photo I have is of the Slippery Elm, it was a nice little jag. These were starting to go punky, they went right into the stove & burned great.
Me too. I'll take that kind of snag all day versus trees you want on the ground that are stuck in other trees.
absolutely. The worse ones are the ones that barely fall before getting hung up. Almost straight. Just saw a ash like that I’ll be dealing with. Broke about ten feet up and barely tipped into another live tree. Havent scoped it out good, just sitting on the atv. Hope to find another dead tree I can attempt to fell into/onto it in hopes it’ll bring it down a bit more. Not gonna be fun that’s for sure.
Yesterday was the big day cutting & splitting of the Cherry that wasn’t able to be brought close to the piles, I finished up this morning cutting & splitting a Pignut Hickory that I took down a month or so ago. The Pignut was inaccessible by pickup & I couldn’t get it drug up the bank with the skid steer so I had to Johnny Cash it & haul it out one load at a time with the Gator. From beginning of the trail to where the splitter was is about a 50’ elevation change, with a rather steep bank starting @ the twin Oaks. Got this turned into this : The wagon train heading home, I had to hoof it back to get the Gator & splitter.
