Around 3:30AM on Father’s Day, the power went out. Turns out, a tree on our neighbor’s property fell, hit another tree and took out the power line. Hat tip to the Green Mountain Power crew who had the lights back on by 7:30AM. Not a bad turnaround for an outage that didn’t impact many households. My neighbor asked me if I wanted the wood. You all know the answer. It’s a mix of Birch and Poplar. As you may know, I burn anything. I started getting after it this long weekend. Got up to VT Thursday early afternoon and started hitting the trunks: I’ve said it before, but we are very fortunate to have these neighbors. The husband used his tractor to move some trunks that the power crew cut up over to his driveway. I got most of that cut up today and hope to finish tomorrow and move all the rounds to our property for staging then splitting. He’ll let me borrow his splitter to tackle all the rounds.
Free wood, moving with tractor and letting you use his splitter. Id say that's the perfect neighbor. Some nice rounds there.
Finished cutting the wood by their driveway this morning. My neighbor told me no rush; it didn’t need to be moved until the first frost; he cuts down the grass by their driveway then. I couldn’t leave it sitting that long! First load got loaded twice. Oops. Here’s how much the driveway wood yielded. Last rounds of Birch from the trunk that was near the road. Hold crap, those rounds were heavy! Ol’ Skier here is about 155lbs dripping wet. It was probably a sight to see me heaving those up into the trailer. The Poplar was much easier to move around. Here’s where I ended up today. I have about 8 more Poplar rounds from the trunk to move. They are pretty sizable; similar to the ones closest in this pic. So, a very good score! Again, I’m very grateful to have them as neighbors.
Too bad about the tip over. Been there done that with the wheelbarrow many times. BB is some heavy stuff when green.
Should be good for 26-27 if CSS by years end. I have a customer that prefers BB and oak so I try to give him a cord of each every year. He buys a cord at the beginning of the season and other in Jan-Feb. I generally class BB with beech and sugar maple and will mix together for my volume stove customers. Some SM will go for bundle inventory. BB pretty common up there?
I put wider but taller tires on mine. Still flipped it. Part of the game I guess Some nice wood there. Off the ground like that is better than Goldilocks wood IMO. Can’t be beat.
Brad, we do have a good amount of Black Birch in VT. It’s a great burning wood. Thankfully, I have a good supply of split wood on hand, so this batch can season for a bit. Joe, it’s all about me trying to get as many rounds in as I could per load. Gravity won.
I added higher sides to mine to increase the capacity. Of course gravity appreciates the helping hand LOL I don’t use mine much. Bring splits to the house to make bundles but that’s rare. If someone needs a little more wood in the basement I can dump down the stairs fast enough. Especially if we had heavy snow cover. I had wider tires on it but they were used with dry rot, developed leaks. Found these at Lowe’s on the rims already. Computer said they were in stock, employees said they were out. I was stubborn that day and had a manager find them in an old dusty unmarked box on the top shelf. They were full,of air for however many years they were up there. That was good enough for me LOL
Was infatuated with these quads back when they came out. Probably the first 'sport/utility' machine to be offered I think. Previously they were seperated by work/play categories where these start to blur the lines.
Exactly! It’s kind of like Warrior, but geared lower and with 4wd. I had a warn 424 which let me switch it in to 2nd to wag the back end out. Now that I’m middle aged, I put the driveshaft back in and run in 4wd fulltime. LOL
I had one for a bit...didn't care for the full time 4x4, or the auto clutch, the clutch being my biggest beef. Had a customer that wanted 4x2 capability on his Honda 300 4x4, I put one of those Warn kits in, he seemed to like it.
