Finally a little break in the weather. Headed up the muddy trail with the Honda Foreman and Yutrax trailer to grab the last of the rounds that have been up there for a while. Wet and heavy but still plenty split to make some firewood out of. The elk have churned the trail up into a muddy mess and it’s plenty slippery until it dries. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Ok that’s cool you have to swat Elk off the trail I thought Ct was a wet jungle environment. Just can’t imagine trying to dry wood where the moss grows on everything. Surprised you didn’t scrape it off. Does it matter? Does it grow back so fast it doesn’t matter?
A lot of it will die and fall off when it dries and is split. Doesn’t seem to hurt anything to leave it on. I cut a log last fall that had a very thick layer of moss on it and had been down for quite a while. I was expecting it to be no good and was surprised how well it was preserved. Was wondering if the moss helped protect it in some way. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Do you have the huge Roosevelt Elk like we have? Ours are huge especially when they appear on the side of the road at night. Ours looks like this Vancouver Island Elk Hunting - Vanisle Hunters.
Yours look smaller. I read the article that I posted and I think most of our species of elk are found mainly on Vancouver Island.
Nice video and load of wood. Be careful with those big rounds and 1 hand carry. I pulled a muscle in my back twice like that.
As a smaller stature guy who did masonry all his life when the occasion arose I’d carry two buckets of mud whenever possible. Luckily the occasion didn’t arise all that often Have you ever tried one of those hooks? One of the first implements I ever bought for carrying firewood. I loved it for loading the trailer or swing big rounds up onto the splitter. Anything to keep me from bending all the way over to get a hand under a round. As time went on I had the log arch and the hoist on the splitter I no longer needed it. It’s lost in one of the garages. Now wit the log lift on the splitter I could use it again. I’m either gonna hunt it down or buy another. Awesome tool in the right conditions.
Nice trails. Amount of moss is interesting! I have those same green carrier things with the end hooks, very handy. Very nice video; I didn't care for so much organ, lol.
X2 on that...those hooks, and hookeroons changed firewood handling for me...I can handle 2 fairly large rounds if I have one on each side...but doing 1 at a time will make me pay for it a day or two later...sometimes by that night!
Nice! That's exactly how I get 'er done too. I have same type of hooks and use them the same way, but like Bren/Jeff said, I do one in each arm to keep me balanced when walking to the ATV trailer. Unless they are really big and unsplittable by hand then I use both arms to left them up one at a time. I also half/quarter the bigger ones by hand before loading, just like you did. I do all my cutting in winter, but we don't have the elevation changes that you have, I couldn't do much in winter with those grades I'm seeing with any decent amount of snow. This pic was taken as my first load over the bridge in Dec of '17.
