Doesn't look like they were 'bleeding' very much. Sap is flowing where I am. Cut a little Sugar sapling yesterday and the sap was just oozing out of the little stump.
Nice to have neighbors that know youll take their trees. Even nicer that its that close to home. Good score hork!
That is exactly what they were made for. Very popular around here. Used to pull ice fishing gear behind a snowmobile or quad/utv, hauling deer out of the woods, etc. We have 2 different sizes and use both to move wood around up north. Smaller one is about 18" wide and perfect to load and drag by hand from the stack to the cabin.
It's a good thing. It's my go to beer. It's a tasty inexpensive beer made in Stevens Point Brewery in northern WI. I bet you can get it locally.
They work well. I've done plenty of snowmobile and ATV hauling of wood with a bigger jet sled, with a rigid tow bar. Not using a rigid tow bar and downhill makes for some harrowing moments and reloading of spilled loads. If you don't use a rigid tow bar...
It was pretty cold Saturday. Never got above 28° and it was single digits overnight. That's all I can figure, because I've had several trees do as you say when cutting in late winter/ spring
It gave me a good work out, pulling about 20 loaded jet sleds to the trailer by hand. As if there wasn't enough of a workout listening and unloaded them into the trailer already.
Never used a rigid tow bar here. You just need to shorten up on the rope. We keep the sled maybe 18"-24" from the hitch...never had the problem of dumping it or sliding off the trail.
On flat land sure. On hills, it will go into the ATV tires, and in my case the v bar tire chains and it can damage the sled and even dump the load as well.
Boy called this morning, little accident with tractor, 2010 3340 kubota, seems he found a T post the hardway . This being a gear drive shuttle shift unit . somehow it manged to get bent up and made a bee line for him, got knocked on the noggin and then blocked his access to the clutch by catching on pant leg. He is ok , minor scalp wound. If you have ever hand one you know how those can gush. The tractor is new to him, and the clutch is new to him also. Just glad no real serious injury. Tractor is ok also. Be careful out there a long stick or ? under the snow or whatever or a low branch could due ya in quick. No pic were transmitted to me. On another note we got apx 3" of wet sticky snow last Thur. He said it took about 30min. to clear up the drive with the back blade vs several hrs with a walk behind blower. Guess who has to go look at a used 3 point snowblower he found on FB. I am about 30 min. from it vs him at 1.5 hr. Double auger style.
I love my jet sled jr for hauling wood from the wood shed. If it doesn't fit in the sled, I know it's too wide for the stove.
I went back to the neighbors today. I had to empty the trailer from last time first though, and I hate hearing to handle the wood more times so.. I split that trailer last this am, and a bit of the first trailer load of box elder, until I ran out of straight gas and I had to be at the neighbor's at noon. Here's what I got done. There's a bit to get done yet, but I'll work on that later. I used the wood cutting release that we have on the resources section. That really set them at ease. Here's the ash I dropped at the neighbor's this afternoon. It was an easy drop. Dropped it right where I expected it to. And here's it unloaded waiting to be split. 18" dbh, bark falling off, and straight Here's the second load. Some more box elder and choke cherry. There's more box elder left, that I dropped and bucked to length, but I was bushed . It can wait. We'll see if I feel like splitting some up tomorrow.
I saw that you endorsed that release waiver, so I figured if BSB used it, it's good enough for me. I have more to get there, but I'll need to fix the flat tire on my gorilla cart because there's no snow left to use the sled. I'm not letting that solid and straight box elder that I bucked up go to waste. That's great firewood for the winters we've been having. Plus there's more than plenty of smaller branches already partially cut up. At bare minimum there will be good campfire wood from that, and it helps the neighbors out. I forgot to mention that their neighbors on the back side were also cutting down storm damaged and EAB killed ash. They stopped over and asked if I wanted firewood. They burn out outside in the fire pit, but there's no way they can use all that's down. That guy's got no splitter, so I offered to bring that over to use in exchange for the nice ash logs. I'm at the point that neighbor's, neighbor's, neighbor's are finding me to take wood. Lol
