2615 is a maple that the wind brought down that I bucked up but left, 2616 is another beech further down the trail, 2617 is one of the rounds, 2619 is what I left standing until I get back there again, 2620 I'm loaded up heading home until further down the trail when another tree was down across the trail so the saw came out and I took care of it.
It's good to see you're staying busy up at that beautiful property buddy, hope all has been well with you! I leafed through some of your pics, miss reading your posts
Thanks Canadian border VT , I hope that mother nature gives me more time before we get snowed out. We hate losing trees but when I saw some beech broken off today, I knew it was coming home with me since it's the wife's favorite firewood. We still have two more beech down that I noticed on the way out, one's in a tough spot (hill) but the other one is at the top of the hill. I'm helping out a neighbor tomorrow, she had a Hemlock come down during the wind storm, she always helped out other people when she ran the chainsaws more but she's having some problems with her balance the last three years.
With the bugs and disease going after the trees and then mother nature knocking down trees, I can't keep up so I concentrate on keeping the trails clear and getting better firewood. All has been good up here, how's your family been? How's your business been going, still climbing and taking down some big dead trees?
We are well, yea busy as ever, took some time off this month to help wifey decorate for Christmas and to do some deer hunting with my son, but work is backed up big time.
I took care of the the downed dead Hemlock (from the wind storm) at my neighbor's, once my neighbor heard my chainsaw she came down with her four wheeler with her saw and started working on some of the limbs that I left long, she also was there to help load up the trailer and take the split wood over to a different area, it was nice talking with her. I grabbed the smaller Beech I saw on my way out yesterday, 20 rounds after we were done at my neighbor's. Not far from the smaller Beech was a nice size wind damaged Beech, I'm not sure if I'll get to it this year since I'll be s/s the Beech we have here but if I can, it will come out before winter. Picture 2622 is the smaller Beech the wind took down,2626, 2627, 2628 is the bigger Beech the wind damaged and 2629 I'm heading home for the day. We have a Wind Advisory on for tomorrow starting at 7 p.m., wind gust up to 55 mph.
I wish, usually the Beech that comes down in the side of the hill is junk but this looks solid so since the wife likes burning Beech, I'll work away at it if mother nature and the old frame allows me to.
With possible high winds along with snow coming in, I stacked all the Beech, Ironwood and a bit of Maple that I brought out after the last wind event, just over a face cord.
Just more pictures of some wind storm damage. Picture 2637 is part of a Beech that the top part of a Hemlock brought down after the wind snapped it off, 2638 is the same Beech. 2641 is 30 rounds of Beech coming home. The Ironwood in picture 2645 was a double trunk tree that mother nature brought down (one side), 2646 is the area it came down in, 2647 is part of the 27 rounds I brought home, since there was no trail in to the area the Ironwood came down, I carried them up the hill in picture 2648 and 2649 is the whole load.
These pictures are of storm damage that is still in the woodlands, 2639 is a topped off Cherry, 2640 is the Cherry top, 2642 is a partially broken off Beech, 2643 & 2644 is another Beech that was blown in to another tree, hopefully mother nature brings it down.
As always the pics & property are beautiful! Thanks for taking the time Zap, it looks like you've got plenty to do. I do full understand your wife's love of the Beech as firewood. I just have that much right around me sadly.
Thanks amateur cutter , between the bugs, disease and mother nature, we won't have many left either. Next year we'll have Beech that has been seasoning 3 & 4 years that we'll be burning, this year we have two face cord of Ironwood ready when the colder weather moves in. I had planned on getting a bunch of Ash off the back hill but once I started on getting higher btu wood, I stayed with it. If this next snow stays with us with more coming in, I'll make the Ash a spring job.
It was a day running around the house lot removing some downed dead trees before our snow moved in. I did five or six different areas, all went over to the outside fireplace. NOAA is calling for our area to receive six inches of the white stuff.
I've been getting some dead pine down from house lot and then in the fireplace the last two days along with a whole bunch of not so great pine splits.
Not much work going on over here. Just moving a little wood up to my backdoor the other day. Haven’t hoarded in a while and my supply is getting down there. Haven’t wanted to get too crazy because I don’t want to move it or leave it behind if we end up moving. Probably use most of this pile this season, it’s 70% oak then a mix of maple, locust and ash. I gotta find some more wood soon, my leg is healed up and I’m jonesing to cut and split, stacking not so much!
