Got a friend that lives next door to where we did the big Plantation job. He is thinning the woods on his 5 acre property around his house. He called, said he had a few trees down, could we bring the tractor by and sort logs, make room. Went by yesterday afternoon. Got the sweet gum in a couple piles for pulpwood. Moved 3 pine logs to his mill and loaded the red oak for the trip home. Still have this oak left to get, will be dropping more trees soon. Which way will it go, boss... I definitely need to help him drop the trees. He's climbing a ladder, tying a rope about 14' up, and getting his wife to pull them...
Had a good 7 days off from work, got a few things accomplished. Last Friday morning, we delivered a tote of oak to the local restaurant... Then we took Godzilla, dump trailer and tractor up to a friend's place. He had a pile of composted wood chips another friend of ours needed for a garden project. Took 2 big loads to clean up the pile My 7yr old grandson wanted to work to make $$ for the book fair at school. He helped me split some chunks into a tote. He did a great job, found some nasty nails in 1 round... Miz Carol helped me finish that tote Wed morning, all 11" post/white oak... That will be some great fires in a couple years, top on, let the drying begin...
The Pine pollen looks thick. My parents live in Long Leaf Pine country and the air gets cloudy with pollen, along with turning everything yellow. It doesn’t look like there is any danger of y’all running out of logs
Those are little gifts and everyone now’s your supposed to hit those with a new chain on your chainsaw
We started another unloading area above mom's house, next to where we have some older logs... This is from 3 different scores... 10 loads total, I think.
