After we put in some wood before the big rains hit, I'll take care of the two downed dead pine so we can drop a few more after this chit moves through.
But Zap, the odor it gives while cutting is fantastic! Plus, you get all that practice of cutting off limbs...
After we put in two loads of wood I wanted to do both dead pines we dropped yesterday but between the rain and mostly the water running to that low area, I called it a day before getting everything soaked. With the warmer temps and close to an inch of rain coming in, it might be about a week before I get back in there. Picture 2189 is some of the rounds, 2190 is the second dead pine and the area the first dead pine was and the last picture is the water running into my work area.
It's a nice smell for sure. The back felt fine this morning so my legs & lungs are in good shape but I'll have to get the muscles in the back in better shape by working more. I was back in the area where we have some damaged Yellow Birch but that area still has some good snow. If I could tell what was underneath the snow, I would take the tractor back through but I've never worked it before.
I'll be back at it tomorrow rain or shine, my boots will be drying by the wood stove tonight. If I can get the dead one out early enough we'll drop the one that's blocking most of the sun tomorrow, I'll just need to clear the driveway. I hope this weather opens up our bigger lot I cut on, we have some smaller Beech down along with what I think is a nice Sugar Maple we would like in the stacks.
It might be a few before I can do any wood work.....supposed to be some wet weather off and on. If we don't get a whole lot I might try to hit another load Monday after work
It wasn't suppose to rain for 90 minutes when I went outside this morning according to AccuWeather, it started after I had been outside for 15 minutes and then it came down hard until I came in. Picture 2192 is the second dead pine which I blocked up today,in picture 2193 I removed a downed dead/rotting pine so I could get the rhino and trailer in, picture 2194 are the two smaller pine I dropped the other day which I took to a splitting area, picture 2195 and 2196 was the area the two good pine was in. Once this weather system moves out we'll drop another three pine, by removing those three especially the bigger one, the house will get even more sun. I'll remove the stumps once the frost is out of the ground with the backhoe.
Another 3-4 pine come down on Sunday in this area unless the winds are bad. I'm thinking when this area is done we'll have removed 15-20 pines, this should give that end of the house plenty of sun.
Since this area gets all the runoff, it's loaded with water after the melt and rain today so it might be Tuesday or after before I can get in there.
Well done sir. The rain hit much earlier than expected here also, caused me to drop my lunch and run out to get things under cover. It was 74 here yesterday, and your place only hit the 40's right? Nice pictures!
The wife would like that area filled in which would make it wider for turning around, she said since you have the tractor with the backhoe and the bucket you could do that....yup. So I realize if I put some dead pine in there and then fill it that it will settle, what would you do.
Do you have any extra sand you could ship over? How much will it settle each year or does it matter on the type of tree I'm dumping in there before the sand/gravel and crush stone? We had planned on taking some trees down today but we had some pretty good wind gust today. It was better earlier this morning but I had an appointment that took up until 2.
You can have all the sand you want to haul! It matters not what you put in and I've never had problems with settlement.
When Mom and Dad bought the cottage back in '58, the yard was all graded smooth. Of course, stumps and other tree parts were buried beneath the final grade to help with the fill. Man, it sure did settle over the years. In the 2000's, I hand spread dirt by wheelbarrow full at a time to fill in the low spots. Then again in 2010's. Mom had mentioned it when the place was bought how nice and flat it was and wished the stumps/left over wood wasn't graded into the ground. Are you going to be around in another 20/30 years or so? I think it lasted around 20 years tops before the yard developed low spots all over.... The difference is this is waterfront property.
