I have a little more stacking to do and some rounds to haul from a neighbor. But outside of that im done. Put the splitter away today saws will be put away next weekend I still have to cut a couple longer rounds to size yet. Mowed yesterday and hope to start buiding a deck next week or so. Unless it's absolutely insane easy to to get im not touching another piece of wood till fall unless it's for a summer Bon fire Come next fall im going to give cutting wood a whole new meaning. Im going to mow down trees.
Good for you! Some day I hope to be ahead enough to stop so early in the spring. I hate the hot humid summer weather.
Good for you! I try to avoid cutting in the bugs and heat, but even then I'll cut if there is an easy score. Good luck with your projects! Cheers!
It gets to hot here to cut during the summer. More water will come out of the person cutting than the wood. What is your avg temps in summer up that way out of curiosity We have such a roller coaster of weather here. It could be mild one day and hot as hell the next. Winter the same could be 50 deg the next 10 below Right now we about to start building boats with all the rain we have been getting
That's how I feel too. But, if the big old black locust my friends gf has in her yard is coming down, I'll have to do some wood getting even if its in the middle of summer. I can't turn down primo BTUs.
Oh it can get hot here, we can see 100 now & then. I was mostly kidding. I don't think it is as humid here as it is down your way. Humidity ruins both winter & summer weather. But for reference, you are talking about mowing, here, the grass has only been out of the snow for a few day's.
Isn't that just wild. Some of us are already transitioned into summer mode while others are still in their burning season Yes the humidity here can get wicked. I've literally walked outside to backyard and be sweating like someone sprayed a water hose on me
Yep - still quite a bit snow here - but almost 70 today and sunny - snow disappearing real fast! No fire all day yesterday for the first time this year, and took the morning chill off today with some quick heat from the oil burner - a fire would have cooked out my wife by the time the sun started to warm the house. Back into the 50's for highs in the next week - back to burning......Cheers!
going to fitzwilliam tomorrow ,i hope there is not much snow as it will make some chores more difficult ,you have a nice area there nh wood.
That is great Woodrat1276 ! Hope to be in your shoes next year. I'm behind the curve a bit and expect to be cutting, splitting and stacking for another month. Can't wait to get to a point where I can do this at a more casual pace. Just looked at your info and see you are in Ky ... guess that is about right, you guys must be at least a month ahead of us here in MI. Must be morel picking season down there!
I'm ahead but I would like to be further ahead still yet problem is we have been getting drowned with rain so it's either just to wet to get out there or it's raining. When it's not raining we already cutting grass here so I have that to tend to along with other warm weather things Basically it's going to go straight from rain to roasting in hells gates here soon and im not messing with it then. Watch out come fall though im going to look like tornado going through the woods my goal is get way way ahead and then slow to a casual pace. But for cutting in the cold is my best time I enjoy it I just don't like it being a have too situation vs a want to lol
Darn grass!!!! I'd rather be mowing down trees than grass. This weekend, no grass will need to be cut, but next weekend it will. It's already very green. I'm hoping I can haul some more wood out of the woods this weekend, if not I'll just split the 2 loads I got out of the woods that I had not yet split. Hauling wood all depends on if it's dry enough in the field. We were in a precipitation shortage of like 4" before we got 4-5" all over here.
Unfortunately, my hydraulic splitter won't be available until this coming weekend. As a new wood burner, I'm way behind. I'd like to have 10-15 cord C/S/S this year to get me ready for 3-5 cord/yr. burning. Of course, I'll put up as much as I can, and hope that we have decent winters... We will see.
You never know what's gonna show up. I say the same thing when I finish in early May and this past seasons wood is replenished. Along the way the phone will ring a few times with calls for wood and then the occasional CL ads...
Yep, I'm just about ready to wrap it up, too. All I gotta do is get about another cord for my BIL, haul 4 cords or so over to my SILs' places, take the empty pallets over there so they can start stacking dead Oaks that were dropped, then cut, split and stack 8 or so Red Oaks lying around in my woods, and a 19" Red Elm that fell a couple months ago, and split/stack a couple cords of rounds that are waiting. Then there's that Black Oak at a buddy's house, waiting to be bucked and hauled, a big BL at another place, and a HL at a neighbor's. Other than that, I''m done. Gonna be sweating again this summer, for sure. I don't mind it too much, though, sweating is good for ya.
