I was back to the creek and amazed at how low it is. Many places you can cross without getting feet wet.
Today I bucked up the logs that we pulled out of the Brook, once that was done I headed home for the tractor. I moved all the rounds out of our path so when we start pulling more logs from the Brook, the path is clean.
It was back in the Brook again today, we pulled two logs that were down in the water along with bucking some of it up, hopefully by Sunday everything is out of the water and off the banks. The weather is looking good for finishing up the job, that's always nice.
It was more hours in the Brook cleaning up the mess on top of some logs, since the logs are cleaned off so nothing gets down stream, we'll be pulling out what's left of the logs from the far side soon. With the area getting pretty full of chit that we pulled out or threw up by hand, I put the forks on the 4540 and moved some logs out of the way so we have a clear path.
Not yet. We didn't get much rain up here, five inches of rain would help raise the levels in the Brook, did anyone in your area get flooded or washed out roads?
Not that im aware of. I95 in RI was flooded such that both directions were shut down near Providence i think. Our river down in the ravine was very low. I took a walk to cover my stacks in the woods prior to the rain on Sunday and noticed how low it was. When we get a good rain the rapids below our driveway are rather loud.
Another three hours were spent clearing logs off the southside bank, we have about three or four logs left on the northside bank and the work inside the Brook is done. There isn't much room back in that area anymore with all the chit taking up real estate, we should have room for the last three or four.
We finished pulling the last logs out at 9:27 a.m. today, the work inside the brook is done. The wife was a huge help on this job, she piled all the the boards on the right in picture 3247. The wife did tell me that more chit up on the neighbors part of the brook could come down, we'll see if that happens if we get heavy rains this fall.
Yes it was but it has been x amount of years since we actually worked in the brook, the hard parts over with.
Today we put in four loads of shoulder season wood along with some kindling, we might get some good rains so we put it in before they hit. After we put in wood I cleaned all the zerks on the tractor and then greased the tractor and the backhoe along with checking the fluids, all fluids were good.
We received half an inch of rain yesterday so today was spent by the outside fireplace getting rid of a bunch of pine.
With the 4540, I moved another three loads of the chit in picture 3247 in my above post 489 to the outside fireplace. I had a dead pine down just off the driveway so I limbed that up and took three loads to the fireplace. I c/s some of that pine and then brought it over to the fireplace and covered everything. Before I put everything away, I grabbed a 12 foot step ladder and cleaned out a blocked gutter and then put everything away.
Last year I gave a face cord to a neighbor further down the road, this year a another neighbor received half of a free face cord of Ironwood with the rest going down after the rains are done. I'll fill the open spot with some Beech this fall.
Since it was wet out yesterday, I spent the day having some fires in the outside fireplace. I did flame up a bunch of junk wood and did a bunch of clearing of the trails around the house, dang pine trees still giving up their dead branches. Since the rain started we received just under 1.5 inches of rain which quit yesterday later in the day.
I did more picking up of dead pine branches and bucked up some chitty pine for the outdoor fireplace and then the big guy gave me a good soaking, after getting soaked I called it a day and finally took my own shower. Tonight we could drop down to 37 so we'll have a pine fire......maybe two.
Set the minnow trap again today. Saw one bird (grouse) that was just too smart to let me get close enough for a shot. Also, picked up a couple dead barkless standing elms that are ready to burn. 8" and 12". Dropped them right across the road and cleaned them up.
