DO NOT TELL THE MAN WHO OWNS A LOGGING COMPANY, THAT YOU WOULD LIKE A LOT OF BIRCH LOGS PUT AT THE PUBLIC BOAT LANDING, SO YOU CAN BRING THEM OUT BY BOAT TO YOUR ISLAND!!!
Hello gentelmen, My wife and I were snowmobiling in the Superior National Forest by my Island and came across a logging company, the owner was there and I said it sure would be nice to get a lot of that birch you have cut, it was getting dark and the mills in Duluth were closing so he said I will drop off that semi full for you at the boat landing with my grapler truck, If you look at my photo you will see me trying to load 8 foot logs onto a pontoon and in the background are 15 more cords, my wife and I just wanted some nice firewood, it was fresh cut and 1/3 of logs weighed 500lbs plus my hands were so sore and blisterd on blisters when I was done, my wife is the greatest but she was beat and I do not want her to do stuff like that, we had to unload the pontoon also onto the dock and slide the logs and roll them into a stack, But first we tried hauling by snowmobile and the tempature went up into the 60s and the snow started to melt and from 14inches of ice on that lake and 3 feet of snow two weeks later it was all melted and we were using the pontoon, and than after I had it all stacked we got 17 inches of rain. Duluth was destroyed even the zoo aninmals escaped ya know lions and big stuff.
I also said I would like a lot of cedar board WOW those loggers are funny I am making above ground walkways and spa area and wood storage aeras in the cabin
Look at the member map or google earth and go 33 miles north on hwy 2 from Two Harbors MN to Lake Greenwood and magnify in.
The only thing that would concern me is laying those birch logs on the ground then making the walkway. It would seem that within a year or two the logs would all rot, knowing that birch rots from the inside out.
I know this. Wood up there breaks down only 4 months out of the year. Average temperatures are low and when the logs start rotting, the walkways will be on soft cushions. I wouldn't expect anything to happen to the walkways for 10 years and I may fill the cavities with native gravel from around the shorelines.
This is from the wife: Brains before brawn! And now from DonD: pull-roll-yank-push-swear-ache is how ya do it
I was lucky (?) enough to be in Duluth during above mentioned rain storm. Some guy was running a jet ski around the miller hill mall area! (you tube) By the way, just what did you pay a cord for that load?
