I'm excited and apprehensive at the same time. Weather is giving us a little taste of Spring in OH this weekend with 50* temps and some sunshine. But...we have snow melting right now and it's gonna be muddy. I have been moaning and complaining all winter about the conditions and not being able to get much done productively in the woods be it from very low temps or mud/rain. Can't take it anymore...heading out Saturday for at least a few hours. I have a small black locust log and a whole red elm needing bucked. Think I'm gonna skid out a nice sized stick of cottonwood also. Will be the semi-maiden running of my Franken350 Husky. Have been figetting with the carburetor a bit and think I have it pretty dialed in now. Also have some red oak that is bucked and quartered needing split. Will try to get that done also. I have barely used my new splitter. Anyone else heading out to shake off the cabin fever this weekend?
I had hoped to get some weekends with frozen ground and reasonable temps....hasn't really hap Mmmmm! Bacon! Sure does!
The one log I want to try and get out of the woods is located back in the shale bottomed creek, so I think I can go grab it without tearing too much up. If it turns out to be too muddy at the landing for working, I'm going to grab my loppers and folding saw and head in on foot to exterminate some grape vines. Just need to get in the woods doing something...anything!
I hear ya, but it doesn't look like it's in the cards for me. Ma nature decided to play catch-up here, and we've had about 2 feet of snow accumulate in the past 2 weeks (stupid groundhog! ) I've got some projects lined up in the wood shop though, so I'll probably do some cutting inside.
I have a fence buster black cherry in my back yard that needs to come down but I have scared myself just thinking about which way it might fall. With the 60ish degree weekend I have coming up, it is going to be time to walk around it for a size up of some of the ideas I have had over winter. Maybe I will find one of them acceptable on closer inspection and drop that thing. My present thought is to tie it off to a rather stout maple that is only about 15 feet away and then drop it toward that maple. That would get it completely away from destroying the fence or falling on my neighbor's garden areas. If it wasn't at least 8 inches dbh I would be a lot less apprehensive.
I'm a big 'frady cat when it comes to felling. Doesn't matter if I'm next to a house or way back in the woods. I have cut many, many trees *up in my life, but very few have I cut *down.
I have a bunch of rounds out in the woods that need to be split, but before I get to that I also have a few piles of split wood that needs to be stacked.
I go to a place south west of Laramie. A lot of beetle kill and it is one of the few places around here that they give permission to cut firewood. If you have heard of Woods Landing it is west of there a little ways.
I was in the Bighorns in 2012. Visiting a buddy in Gillette. His boss was gracious enough to let us use his cabin In the Tensleep area as a base for fishing. There were quite a few guys up there chopping up Lodgepoles for camp wood. I inquired about it to my buddy and he replied "BLM land". We fished Meadowlark lake and a bunch of other smaller ones in the area. I was in heaven for a few short days. This put me to sleep at night. About 40 yards from the cabin.
Pretty much describes me too. Don't like felling. I have done it, but there's always the wild factor involved so whenever it can be avoided, it is.
Indeed! Plenty of Trout in most every lake I think. Prarie dog hunting in MT was a blast as well. I like it out there...but it was July. Not sure if I would like it so much in January.
