I felled another pine in the area I've been working, I cut,split the better pine and then moved it to the pile. This will be a walking trail and a new spot for plowing the snow this winter.
Since it rained on Tuesday night and most of the day Wednesday, it was wet enough so I burned some splits that I had in a pile too long. I did have some nice dry dead pine I had covered so once that was going things burned pretty good. They say we should get just under half an inch this Sunday so tomorrow I'll bring over three more bucket loads with the 4540 and then hopefully burn it Monday.
Aww, that's a great "my dad" picture! Save it for her, it's so easy to lose good pics in our digital blizzard.
I didn't get a before picture but we had three smaller pines that I cleared out of this area so we can push snow off the driveway into this area. Some of the tall thin trees will come down along with the topped off Cherry which will give me more room for snow storage. I also limbed up some of the older pines (branches were dead) and I removed the stumps later today. I still have three or four days worth of work in there to clean up the dead stuff and the rest of the wood coming down.
Since we had a chit load of rain overnight and through 12 today, I burned up a bunch of junk pine splits we've had too many years. I had moved this over to the fireplace and covered before the rain, I had enough dry pine that it went better then I thought it would. I didn't take the camera with me today because the forecast was for more heavy rain which we received, these three pics are from tonight.
After working on more clearing in a newer plow zone for snow, I loaded up the utility trailer with a bunch of branches that will go to the town wood dump. After the above was done, I brought five bucket loads of wood with the 4540 over to the fireplace to burn after the next rain. Picture 9556 is the new plow zone I've been clearing, picture 9557 has a tall thin popple that will come down, 9559 is another load of branches for the wood dump, 9560 is the Cherry that was topped off and 9561 was a rotten pine that came down.
I was busy the last few days as well. I’ve been slacking this year but I’m back on track now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
We've had a bunch of stuff going on but I have been working on a new plow area for the snow just off the driveway, I hope to finish it by the end of next week. I haven't been taking any pictures lately but I did pull two smaller stumps with the backhoe on the 4540. I'm just waiting for the leaves to fall so I can fell a bunch of ash so I can s&s it before winter. I'm hoping for another 10 face cord or just over 3 cord. We haven't been burning yet and after looking at the forecast, it should be another 11 days before we need to unless the boss wants one. Since we've been getting some rain, I've been burning splits that have been around for about 4 to 5 years.
This is the area that I've been working, it looks different from this picture and should look even better after tomorrows work.
This area I've been working will be for snow storage in the winter and trailers once the white stuff is gone. Picture 9564 is where we took 10 trees out of, the majority of them were tall thin pines and some dead cherry, in picture 9565 is another area between the cherry and the pine we'll put more snow but first I'll clean it up, 9568 is a small maple that was bent over from another tree falling on it so I cut it down and the deer are feeding off it and the rest of the pictures are from splitting of the pine and the 4540 bringing them to Pineville.
