Mud season is upon us. Today I finished stacking the last of the wood I got back to the wood yard. That's all I can do back there until late spring or if the ground freezes hard. Which hasn't happened in three years. Currently I have one spot I can get the trailer to without going through the mud. Holds about 0,75 cord. Not getting to work in the woodyard gets me stir crazy after a couple of days. Hopefully the marriage will survive another mud season.
Thats $uck$ Firewooding DT's are tough. Know the feeling. I always seem to have rounds to split and wood to stack. Always a work in progress keeping a small woodyard in order. Hoping we don't get a lot of rain here over the coming weeks. The extended dry spell was nice. Last year we had over 10" of rain between Thanksgiving and New years. Thawing ground is the biggest enemy during the cold weather.
I’ll take all the rain you don’t want. That’s one of the benefits of living here in the sand hills, very little mud to deal with
Hard to say, 2 years ago (I think) we got 2 different storms that each one made 30 something adults say that they’d never seen that much snow at once before, plus a handful of snowfalls in the 4”-8” range. Everyone was running out of run to stack it. We hadn’t had a winter like that in decades. But I guess we typically get a handful of snowfalls in the 3-10” range. I’m heading to Wyoming on thanksgiving to chase the elks for 4-5 days. After I get back I’ll be ready for some snow, sort of.
Did you get any snow the other day ? I just got rain mixed with snow but one of my customers went to his cabin near the poconos and said they got 10 plus inches there JB
We got a candy coating the other day...an hour north in the primary snow belt SE of Cleveland they got 8.5"
Took first 'weather' day off from woods Saturday since I can't remember. Got a good soaking but the ground mostly drew it in. Other than the beating the farmers took this summer, I rather enjoyed a dry spell for a change. Been since the 90s that we have been as dry as we were this summer. Very very low humidity for us which was very welcomed. I mostly left the leaves on the trails this year hoping to help mitigate the mud. Been back n forth on whether to clean them off or leave them (heh). Freeze & thaw without leaf cover on the trails sees them get tore up real fast if I'm using them. I used the zero turn to blow them all off a couple years ago and it didn't work out how I planned. Had hoped the dirt would be able to dry out if the leaves were off it. Nope.
Watching this evening's weather report looks like by Monday things around here will be frozen hard...of course I'm leaving town for three weeks for work tomorrow.
