Gorgeous set up. Makes me feel “inadequate “ here on Long Island. Been out to Wyoming and Montana 6 times. Would love to live there.
For the outside temps we get here, and the fact that I'm running an old school smoke dragon for a stove the lodgepole and other softwoods are what's best for me. I scored a cord of black locust this year, but unless it's 15F or below it's kinda too much.
You are correct. You really do not need a wood shed here. The wind will dry out anything in a heat beat. I do not top cover any of my stacks either. I have a couple of moisture meters and the wood is always very dry. Heck I have some cottonwood here stacked for 5 years with no signs of rot.
Stacks look great. I too am eager to get after some oak that needs splittin’. After this last storm, I think I’ll be knee deep in mud for the rest of the month!
Ground froze up pretty good again here, & I'm stuck in the shop. It would've been a good day to skid logs.
I went over to my neighbors last week to dig a hole with my backhoe for a horse that died. The ground is so frozen that the only thing I could do was to pull the tractor all over the place and could not get the hoe to dig in. No mud.
You need a Frost Bucket . But, it your not diggin frozen ground for good money. It's not worth it. I think generally speaking here this winter. We have 4 or more feet of frozen ground. Except in the muskegs . Which is usually permafrost.
Yep I was just doing a favor. So I am got going to get a frost bucket. Just thought I would give it a try. At least I did not brake any teeth off the bucket.
When I was working on The Slope. Company I worked for for a while did close outs of old exploration and drill pads . Gravel pad built during the winter . Usually a couple acres in size. Back in the day they would just dump stuff into pits and bury with gravel. The gravel was considered ( contaminated) It would all have to be dug up and hauled off. The excavators we used all had frost buckets. 3 or 4 teeth on the bottom curve of the bucket. We would go completely thru a set of teeth in 1, 12 hour shift and if I found lots metal in a barium (drill mud additive ) pit. Sometimes they would barely make it 8 hours. Nice new teeth on a 345 Cat hoe would sure dig up about anything tho !
When I bought this backhoe the old teeth on the hoe bucket were completely destroyed and bent. That was one of the first things I did was to straighten and weld 4 new teeth back on.
