Hi My Name Is Adam And I Have A Problem...

Hi All.

My name is Adam and I have a problem...

New to the forum here. It was recommended to me by another member and friend of mine, CTRider. I've been reading through some older posts and am enjoying the awesome wealth of knowledge.

I have a wood hoarding problem that never stops nagging at me - no matter what time of year it is. I tend to make note of where the power line clearing crews are working as I'm driving and then swoop in whenever I can to grab the good stuff they leave alongside state or town lands. I've also been known to stop and knock on front doors if wood is left roadside on private property. Even if we are late to going somewhere, if I see wood in someones yard I have to stop and knock. I recognize this is a disease... Most of the time I lose out to other guys that also jump on roadside wood but every now and again I get lucky. I also fell trees on my property. Just finished felling and bucking up a beautiful black oak that was on it's last branch (literally). Got to it before Mother Nature did. It should fill up a nice bit of the wood shed this spring.

We burn full-time in a Regency 3100 to heat our small home. It's a newer stove - installed it when I bought the house three and half years ago - couldn't be happier with it. The backup propane furnace hasn't kicked on once yet this season and that's how I like it. If it is not wood heat, it's not real heat... We've seen -10 degrees a couple nights and this week is looking to be near there a few times overnight. Keep it cold out! I can't stand summer heat and humidity.

I run an older 18" Husq 445 and a newer 20" Stihl 391 and split on an Ariens 22 ton splitter. Not the biggest equipment around but it all gets the job done quite well. My fiancé and I are the owners and operators of newly founded Mount Kadam Forest Farm here on our 67 acres in the foothills of the Berkshires. We make maple syrup and are jumping head first into cultivating shiitake mushrooms on logs on a large scale. We also keep ducks and chickens for eggs and this year will be raising meat chickens. Our long term goal for the farm is keeping Boer goats in the woods for meat market, utilizing the practice of silvopasturing in an area of our property that is covered in forest grass and dominated primarily by shagbark hickory and oaks. Anyways, between felling, moving, bucking and splitting wood for our firewood stack or the needed supply for the maple sugaring arch and harvesting logs for mushrooms, we work with wood pretty much weekly. I'm not complaining... I also recently started playing around with a Granberg chainsaw mill. We have a small stand of eastern red cedar that has been mostly choked out by hemlock and hardwoods. About 90% of them are standing dead. So I've been felling the nicer of the dead cedars and milling boards from them. Beautiful wood. For the harvest of mushroom logs I've been cutting unacceptable growing stock (underperforming/genetically inferior specimens of 3 - 8" DBH) of oak, maple, beech and birch on our land as part of a stewardship plan to help promote the health and wellbeing of our sugaring lots.

I do lot's of other stuff but I assure you, I'm not that interesting. Anyways, I'm rebuilding an old sugar shack and intend to mill the siding for it so I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions for everyone as I'm so new to using the chainsaw mill. Picture below is the hardwood firewood shed I built last summer. It holds 7 to 8 cord depending if I stack the wood level at 6 feet or keep going higher with the stacks to follow the height of the roof at 8 feet in the front. We also have a cord stacked over by the fire pit in the yard and multiple pallets holding split pine, hemlock and mixed hardwoods for the sugaring arch. Do I qualify for counseling?

 

Welcome aboard Adam Woodsman .
I don't see a problem at all. You merely enjoy an alternate lifestyle.
Around here, we enable like minded souls. Hoard on!

 

Welcome bud!

 

Welcome Sir, pull up a block and join the fire.......................................

 

Nope...no problem in sight.

 

Welcome to the club... yes you need counseling, financial that is. We are here to help you spend your money on your habit.....nice shed...hope you are successful in your journey together.

 

Glad you're here! Nice looking milling work.

Is case you don't know yet, if anything breaks around here we generally blame it on Eric VW . It just works easier that way.

 

Nice to see another Nutmegger! Welcome.


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Hi Adam,
I’m new here too and also from NW Ct. We do some small scale maple sugaring in western Ma., lots of fun. Welcome.

 

No, but you qualify to top off that woodshed.

 

Welcome aboard Adam ( Woodsman )


Welcome to our little 12 step program.
We try to keep wood within 12 steps from the stove.


From the looks of things, you might just fit in around here.

 

Welcome aboard to rek as well

 

Welcome aboard Woodsman sounds like you already have it figured out with posting the pics that you did.

We like to look more than we like to read!

And just to show you that we do have class and are couth, I would like to recite the world's shortest poem now. It is titled "Fleas". Here goes.


(ahem... cough, ahem)

Fleas

(recited by yooperdave )


Adam had'em!

(thank you)​

 

Welcome to the club, if I haven't already said so...

 

We've been waiting for you... Sounds like a cool project with the farm.

 

You must have forgot the rest of the words............................again !!!!!

 

No counselling needed, hoard on and welcome to the club.

 

Very nice wood shed! The mushroom cultivation is of exceeding interest to me, please keep us posted on that. You seem as normal as the rest of us but that may not be a positive endorsement!??! Welcome indeed! Looking forward to future posts!