Three Ash

I split two of the ash trees up top that I felled a few days back.


Picture 0350 is getting setup on the first ash (nice out) 0352 is the ash split,0353 is getting setup on the second ash,0354 it's split and I took 1.5 loads off the hill to finish the stack which was all the splits from the first ash.


It was a crazy weather day, we started out with some sun and some good wind gust with snow, the trees were talking.


I think that I posted we had 53 face cord up, it's actually 55. The area I'm stacking has 8 face cord stacked but will hold 12 so I'm thinking I'll fell a few more ash and go for the another 4 face.

 

We have one ash down that's not bucked up, two up top that are c/s so since nothing is leafed out yet, my plans are to fell 2 to 3 more ash tomorrow and call it a spring for the felling.

If I get another 4 face cord out of all that, that will give us 12 face cord of ash and another 6 face cord of beech,ironwood,sugar maple and some soft maple for this spring.

The boat batteries are in so we hope that the boat will get used more this year, the water levels are low for this time of year so some rain would be nice.

 

I did fell two more ash today and then bucked up the trees, I also made sure the gully was opened back up for walking.

 

Nice rig you got going woods.

 

I like your wood wagon, and those are some mean looking stacks! Really nice looking! We’re mowing grass here. I see you’re still dealing with some snow. Makes for good firewooding weather

 

Thanks Haftacut , it's perfect size for the hills (coming down) that I deal with with a load of wood. It was actually nice to work in with the cooler weather but the winds I could've done without.

I was up in the woods today, the bugs are out after some warmer weather so hopefully I get the above ash s/s before the end of May.

North of here out in the open, people are mowing there grass but back here in the woods we'll be another two weeks.

Thanks on the compliment on the stacks, I use t-post on the ends which some don't like but that's ok. There are plenty of better stackers on this forum and other forums. When I finally burn the wood my stacks are the last thing I think of.

 

Thanks Loon , do you ever use that tractor you use to drag out a whole tree with?

 

The wife is making some potato leek soup today, freshly picked today and boy it's smelling pretty good in here.

Tomorrow I'll make some spaghetti sauce with some leeks instead of store bought onions.

 

Hopefully tomorrow I'll get the next two face cord stack ready and then s/s some ash. The stacking area will get some wood chips which should level things off.

 

Wow, you have been busy, looks great. Stacks look really nice. I think T post are fine if you have them. Looks like it works great for you. Nice job.

 

Yes we do, I might use it our take the branches to the wood dump.

 

Thanks T.Jeff Veal , the EAB in our county got my arse in gear last year with the felling of the ash. Looking back at the cold weather we had while I was c/s/s the ash, it actually was a blessing.

 

If it wasn't for almost 3 hours I took off so we could go get a certain item, this two face cord stack would be done but I'll finish it tomorrow and then get the next row ready.

Attached are some pictures of where I split in the gully and the stack of ash.

 

The stack I had started yesterday is almost finished (forgot to take the picture) but I split what was left in the gully, that almost finished that stack. Since I had one ash down up top, I decided to run the splitter up and split the bucked up rounds.

The first two pictures are from the gully where I split the ash, 0396 is up top, 0397 & 0398 are the rounds split, 0399 is a bunch of dead pine I hopefully clean up so I can put in a new trail this summer and 0400 is some of what's left.

 

With all that property, to bad the pup can't run.

 

I wish we could but I'm thinking these old legs could never catch her. After living on the streets in Texas for a bit, she's loving the house life.

We do have a run setup but she likes inside. The wife does walk her 5 - 6 times a day for the dogs exercise.

 

I can understand that. We had a headstrong chow/rot that we couldn't let run. Luckily all our other dogs have been good. Holly I can take up to the crossover where she can run on the woods and she'll decide she has had enough and will sneak back down to the house. She'll be lying there on the porch waiting for us.

 

Nice work sir. Northern NY hard worker you are!