thanks for posting your adventures. I am really impressed at how there is no understory brush in your woods. Up our way, it would be thick with salmonberry, salal, devils club and elderberry(the red ones) With that much sunlight between the trees, the red alder would also be taking over the place. Nice to hear that your physical therapy is doing you so much good.
I hate to admit it, but that canopy needs opened a bit. The areas you are seeing in the pictures have had blowdowns. Most of the time you will hunt to find a spot to stand in the sun once in the forest. The nasties we fight here are Privet, olive, and grapevine mainly. I killed most all the vines. I have small pockets of the olive trying to establish. Haven't devised my response plan as of yet. Here is a mid A ugust day at 2:30 in the afternoon. Much of it is this way.
A lot of folks are worried about parts. I'm hedging. Will pre-buy a few common spares for it. Their coils are questionable sometimes. Had also wanted to get a 395XP but I think they are made in Brazil now? Less want. Maybe I'll get another Makita. lol
That’s an amazing ordeal! So glad you came through and are making strides. Congrats on quitting smoking! Wonderful to hear you are healthier.
OK, OK. OK, a computer’s attention span is only as long as it’s power cord. WE are the masters of this technology until such time that it can run on batteries…. oh, chit…..
Got some stuff done yesterday and today. Mud and all. Got the two big hickories, the big white oak logs and the red oak top split. The hickory needs stacked yet. Bird friend was here as usual. This fellow was at the woodyard an hour before I got there today. No wonder I couldn't get it with the maul.
It made several ulgies. lol The Y crotch where the stem split into two large branches. First tried with the X27 which failed. Then tried with Isocore and failed. Splitter always wins.
Beautiful day yesterday BTW. I thought myself a genius for splitting in a SS tshirt with a fleece vest. Got some vitamin D! lol
Started off Saturday with 3 honey locust logs. Couple pieces tried to fight back. A pile of Honey next to a stack of Hedge. Yummy. Obligatory A-hole pile from processing. Talked myself into stacking the hickory I left piled last week. Went and picked up sticks by the cabin and then talked myself into stacking the hickory that I left last week. Yesterday I used a fair amount of time building this cabinet for the barn. Living space for the ever expanding chainsaw hoard. Had this laying there since before Christmas, a relief to finally have gotten it taken care of. Got to the woods kindof late yesterday so didn't do a whole lot. Went and looked at some potential trees for recovery and cut up a few rounds that I'll get with the trailer sometime.
Tractor day today. Ground pretty stable. Got this red oak out and prepped some hickory. Also a piece of maple but dunno if I should have bothered. Had my first outdoor fire Friday night. Been too long. Proud of the Kubota. Made some nice drags today. Few wheelies and a little pedal steering never hurt no one.
You’ve definitely earned your keep. Oh to live in a place where hedge and honey locust grow wild, where you can second guess yourself whether or not cutting some maple was worth your while Nice work, man.
Hello RCBS, from a fellow motorcycle rider. Looks like Ohio or Pennsylvania terrain? Some of the best motorcycle trails are in PA.
SE Ohio in the Appalachian foothills. Being by a large river means lots of elevation features. Bout time to get that thing out and start playing again. Dragging my butt getting the lights and signals on it for street use.
LOL! Yes, I am of the spoilt type wood makers concerning wood type and condition. One of many blessings of owning wooded acreage. There have been 'lean' years where no good wood really falls and I have to hunt for it. Last year threw down a whole bunch of red oak and hickory. Been trying to salvage as much as possible which leaves me having to be 'picky' with he time I have available. 'Wasted' effort on 'ok' won't do when you have a bunch of premium stuff laying, trying to start rotting. Last sunday I looked at another huge hickory that is in a kindof difficult location for me to get it out. I really really need a dozer with a winch on the property...someday I hope. Will attempt to cut it down to 8 footers and drag it up and out...uh...sometime. lol Been working the easiest and most bountiful stuff first.
The tree nerd in me is really curious about this one. Do you know what species this stump is? Since you live in the historical range of them, it could be American chestnut. Of course it could be regular old oak too, but only a cross section of the end grain could confirm that.
There is a quick story behind that Northern White Oak stump. Over two decades ago the top snapped and was hung pependicular in another tree to the right in the pic, still attached to the main stem also. I laid that cut into it trying to get it to come down (to the left in the pic) only to have it close the face and stop. I left it and waited for two years for it to finally hit the ground. Contemplated fighting it off the stump, but decided danger factor was high. It was some salvage wood and was around the late 90s, early 2000s. There have been a dozen salt rocks on it over the years as it was my primary feeding spot for around a decade. Many animal tongues have licked that stump! lol Have since moved the dinner table close to my woodyard up on the hill.
