Or the staging/working area is set up & cleaned up. I used the batwing to mow it off & the lawnmower to clean it up. I don’t like wading/tromping around in 3’-4’ tall grass/weeds. Pulled out the ash that I took down last year & have about 2 dozen other ash to take down & process. Just one stray 80’ ash that I had to make a smaller area but it will get pulled out to the main area after limbing. Hopefully the weather continues to be pleasant & I have time to get started before harvest starts.
Harvest should be a little ways off yet but I’m seeing beans turning yellow and some corn starting to turn brown down low. What type of heater do you use? That Ash is nice wood!
Those dead trees take up less space than fallen ones. Drop them as you work them into splits. Nice inventory/supply to have!
I don’t blame you with the tall grass especially in the morning when it’s soaking wet from the dew. I hate wet feet!
I think it will probably be a couple weeks on the beans, depending on the weather. My brother planted a bunch of 2-2 & 2-6’s. It was around September 8 last year but the we started. I don’t believe he has any short season corn this year. I have a Century 3000 stove.
Got a Gator load of mulberry from a fence repair that needed to be done. Dad was available to run the tractor/loader while I scaled the bank to cut & throw chains. Found a small dead elm, so I grabbed it. This cherry top was in the ash working area so I worked it up. I will knock down the trunk & buck it up after some debris is cleaned up. Got all the downed ash bucked up then felled & limbed 5 more ash trees. There is a dead honey locust in the area with the ash trees as well, I reckon I will get it as well.
Hauled the cherry home & loaded some saws to do more some felling & limbing. 2511, Miller Mods 5105, Miller Mods 462, Crocky 661 3 more big dogs need felled & limbed then it all bucking & splitting. Maybe Saturday, Sunday & Monday. some of that will take place. Guessers are clucking about rain though.
Wagons are hooked up, ball added to the small one to pull the splitter. Rains are moving in so the rest of the bucking will have to wait to see how things shake out. I made some progress. Time for a couple of these And one of these
Whole lotta work right there JimBear Nice! Takes me back 31 years to our old farm, during the first fall we were there. I dropped all of the ash along the fields the same way you have. I topped them, and stuffed the branches into the wood line, then grabbed the full tree length logs (had an old Hydrocat loader with a one finger grapple I'd built) and moved them up behind one of the barns, to be processed. Ended up being around 8-9 cords. Your pics of the logs all lined up puts me right back in those fields, on cool Sept/Oct days. Heaven.
Glad that brought back some good memories. I didn’t have a loader for the majority of it, just the old 300 & a couple of chains. It did really well. I borrowed Dads 7330 Deere with a loader to pull the 3 largest trees up & push the brush out of the way.
I got some more done yesterday morning between rain showers but didn’t get any pictures. Rains overnight & today will halt progress & grain hauling the rest of the week will put the brakes on things as well. This weeks temps look great for fire wooding. Daytime around 70 & overnights in the mid 40’s.
