The plan was to get three Ironwood today, I took two. Pic 8418 was storm damage, pic 8420 was the second one which was bent bad by the ice like pic 8421, that is still standing. Pic 8422 is the first load, 8423 is the second load of ironwood, pic 8424 is some ironwood with yellow birch I cut last week.
I went back to what was left of the Maple stump, I used the 310 to cut the last five or six rounds off it, the first time since fall it's been used. Pic 8426 is after I'm finished, the rest is hauling it out. Pic 8429 is made up of two rows, the back has yellow birch & ironwood and the front row is what I think is Sugar Maple.
About 5 to 6 inches if were lucky. The rain will start tomorrow which will make it a mess. It looks like you'll have a mess too.
Good stack ! Less water in the wood this time of the year. Aren't you usually snowed out of the woods by this time of the year? Areas South West of you got feet of lake effect snow. Might be your year for low snow totals A short warm & rain period on snow can make a mess, not fun to be out in. Got rubber boots !!!!
Usually I get snowed out, I've been back in until the end of January before. Depending on the rain tomorrow, my plans are cutting more topped off Ironwood and some Cherry near the trail.
Looks like a great day! It rained off and on all day here and it is a disaster today. I couldn't even get my tractor to the top of the hill if I wanted right now with all the mud we have!
No cutting for me tomorrow. Everything is soft and supposed to rain all day. Yuch. On top of that I am coming down with a cold double yuch.
We'll have a mess after tomorrow if we get the .75 inches of rain there calling for, Vermont to the east coast will be looking at 1-2 inches.
The chains have been on since December, the trails at the moment are frozen tracks, it's like railroad tracks. The brook is loaded with ice, last year they had the excavator parked on our property by the bridge just incase of an ice jam, it never happened. This year they don't have the excavator at our end, we'll see what happens.
