On a little firewood vacay. 80 deg and low humidity in August has me using some pto. First time processing big sugar maples. The first one was wavy, trash making and labor intensive. It had me swearing at and off big sugar maple. This one has been straighter and making nice splits. Thick bark falls off like elm Hopefully knock out most of this today including stacked. Than I can have chainsaw time tomorrow to hell with mowing, weedeating, blowing and roundup.
I don't even bother trying to split big crotch pieces anymore. They get noodled down to size. All the oak I've been getting spoils me on the hydro's. It all just pops open into mostly stringless splits.
Back in the knots and wave’s had the doors open on my truck when I cleared the flooded cylinder. Trucks gonna smell like gas for a while
It has some good color and character Some of these oak planks are growing fungi, so I’ll turn them into firewood tomorrow. I’m not a builder and don’t have space to store lumber. My friend Jeff has an LT40 and logs galore if I ever become bob.
Making me jealous wish i could take off but i had to spend all my time off in the hospital this year in nicu had a premature baby… but finally getting back to more normal schedule…been hitting my buddies yard on the way home from work every day and going at it hard in short bursts of even if its a half hour im still stopping! …wish i could spend a day just going at it hard but for now most i can get away with is an hour a nite and im pushing it… got my big dolmar saw doing the work thoe been nooding these huge red oak rounds my buddy cut down three years ago…
I hope your baby is happy and healthy. I’ve got one youngin left at home, so I don’t always get full days in the wood, but it’s more than when there was 3. Few more years and I’ll be able to camp out at the piles.
