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Sunday morning pre game set up

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    image.jpeg 42 degrees today and the foot of snow is mostly melted thought I would make use of it since some of the toys have been hiding in the barn watching the wood pile grow. Anyone else splitting today? image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg
     
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    I did the same yesterday while there was still some snow on the ground. I had a trailer load of big oak rounds that needed split. I got it all done now!

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    I think I've sworn of anything much over a 16" round. The pile in my last picture is all noodled blocks of a 45" sugar maple which I've still got about five truck loads left to get.... Just way to much to handle:(
     
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    It was a great day to be out. No firewood work for me though, I had to replace the spare tire hoist on my truck. A few months ago the metal piece that holds it on the cable rusted through and it fell off while driving!

    Awesome set up J Dirt. Looks like a big ash tree in your first pic?
     
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    The red oak rounds I split were big rounds so I split them in halves or thirds with a fiskars then split the rest with a splitter.

    Those red oak rounds split nice even if they are big
     
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    Love the tractor! Big quarters you've got there!
     
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    That's from last weekends job I did for a neighbor... There is 4 smaller ash and one big one I climbed and dismantled in the pile Probly about a cord there
     
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    52 Super A one of the five farmalls here and one of nine total tractors :D she was the lawn mower up until this past August when I got me a zero turn
     
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    Quarters, sixths and eights in some cases :saw: we were knee deep in noodles that day
     
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    Highly unlikely as there is no video to prove it. :thumbs:
     
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    Check out my post in the thread My power company trimmed my ash...

    That's as close to video as I've got and that was mid day so there was more noodles after that :D
     
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    Final count...... Split and stacked a cord and a quarter, quarter split about a third of a cords worth of big rounds and cleaned up my mess I'd say a good day especially topped off with a steak and potato dinner :smoke:
     
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    Very good day indeed, I'm thinking about working on a little cherry I've got available
     
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    nice looking pics of nice super a, nice splitter and splits, nice storage, nice pile of rounds and chunks,nice view. great place. what is the water behind you;river or lake?
     
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    No water (yet anyway until I unleash a dozer on it this spring) just fields and yard
     
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    i guess that is snow in the field i see, looked like water. as gilda radner used to say on saturday night live"nevermind".lol
     
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    Yep some snow left around here and there quite a difference from the foot that was there two days prior
     
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    all my snow has melted and left me with a nice crop of mud!
     
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    Same here surveyed some of the plow damage/ gravel displacement today o_O
     
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