My son got his permit from the borough to start cutting in a roadway to his property The first step to getting good enough access to begin building the platform and putting up his 40' yurt The road has to be 15' wide and cut down 12" and then a heavy impermeable fabric has to go down and then 12" of gravel There is still some snow up there we had to slog through but we did make a start The crew (minus me) Lots of doubled trees Sorry Randy, I got my saw dirty Alaskan "stump vise" This tree had to come down and is pretty central in the work area so I cut it tall and we will leave the stump for now as our work station Son loves his new 362 Generations..... My old 210 and his older 021 That Sitka spruce is some sticky azz stuff All our gear is just covered in sap Gonna be a saw cleaning day when we get back home The Alaska Mill he ordered didn't come in yet so that will wait for another trip He has a summer business along with his full time state job so it will be a while before he gets back up there but I have a friend who is carpenter savvy and is itching to play with milling so we might forge ahead All in all a good start and a fun couple of days with my son doing the kind of stuff we like
Boy we could use a few hands Ten acres and enough standing dead wood and blowdown to keep me cutting and hauling for years Luckily there is no spruce bark beetle kill in the area Knock on wood Where in New Mexico We lived in the mountains above Las Vegas for a few years back in the mid 80s
I work in Albuquerque, but am currently living in the East Mountains, just up the I-40. It is beautiful, but I probably won't stay there much longer. Just went to Santa Fe for the first time this last weekend and almost didn't come back!
It is funny that I have lived in many snowy places in my life, but it took moving to New Mexico to make me a firewood hoarder!
We have lots of trees up in the mountains, and near the rivers, specifically the Rio Grande. The only problem is that most of our trees are not huge, more like very large bushes. This is the view from our upstairs balcony.
Man that brings back some memories The desert southwest certainly has it's own charm and beauty We lived up in the white mountains of Arizona for a few years in the early 90s In the largest stand of Ponderosa Pine in the US (or so the locals claimed ) We heated exclusively with wood and the favored species was Alligator Pinon
