River is open now it's time for ash on the near side of the river. Working on future btu's. Css a cord Saturday before the snow Sunday youngest split for forty minutes I cut, fed the splitter and stacked in the barn about a cord. It was nice to see the youngest son offer to help. Here's some pics from Saturday. What a beautyful day!
Looks like it was a pretty tall tree. A lot of good straight pieces which should help for some splitting. Nice.
4 wheelin by the river, sounds good to me. And you picked picked out a nice Ash tree that looks great in the pictures. If you play your cards right, that ash might be ready in short time.
Nice work you got done Saturday! That's a lot of wood for the two of you in one day. It's a good feeling to have the kids helping too. I can relate to that one. Its good for them too.
Now that is funny. It was the first thing I though of when I saw the picture and had planned to post about it. Ha! You beat me to it. How'd that crooked ash get in there? Thankfully most are quite straight.
Speaking of Ash....Dennis, those Ash I wondered about (EAB signs to look for) in another thread are in a low-lying area on M-32 just past Alpena airport. Most are on the south side of the road. Not sure who owns the property, but I see enough EAB trees there to keep me busy for a LONG time. Pretty wet in the summer though. Just a little followup. Back to our regularly scheduled thread.....
That might be a pretty good distance to haul them Dave but I think I remember the spot you are talking about.
Oh yeah, we got snow all right. Not as much as you though. These pics were before the snow on Saturday. Or show started about midnight on Saturday, and snowed until about 3 am Monday morning. I was busy doing other things, otherwise I would have cut some down too. Oh well, I'll just have to contend with some more snow.
Have a couple left to cut and split . Got my new rim for my 280 my .325 spur broke off so I ordered a 3/8 rim and a .325 spur so I have chain options. That 038 super is a little heavy for felling and bucking eights and smaller and the 021 is too small for over two or three. Today maybe more standing ash -should slide eaiser on the new snow. I've been using my truck because one of my tractor tires are flat. It is nice to have somewhere to warm up the fingers when cutting trees and moving brush.
Went four wheeling for ash again today. Had to leave some trees in the where where it doesn't flood some behind the barn and filled my process area. Didn't split today just felled and bucked. Moved a half a face from barn to the boiler room to warm up. Took more pics of eab trees. The two bigger trees in my process area were 60 and 75 years old. That big tree is four and a half feet in diameter.
Here's the wood in the field for css when the rivers flooding. Heres the seventeen pointer I shot with my bow 50 yards from that rub a number of years ago scored 177 and2/8.
Hey supersparks. That is one fine animal there! One thing that strikes me as odd it the smaller brow tines. Maybe if one like that got in front of me, I'd have to go change clothes!
