Mahindra 4540 4WD

They sure do but a grapple would be nice.

 

Looks good. We do the same with our forks. Yes, a grapple would be nice. Maybe we both will get one someday.

 

I took three utility trailer loads to the wood dump today, I used the forks on the 4540 to get everything I piled up yesterday and some dead pine at the other end where the trail will come through.

 

Good job. We do the same, pile it on the forks and haul it away.

 

Some of that stuff would usually go in the outside fireplace but it takes me less time to take it to the wood dump. It looks like we'll have some warmer temperatures coming in this week, usually we start burning our shoulder season wood around September 15 but last year it was the 25 of September before the colder days/nights came.

 

I brought a bunch of Ash tops and dead Pine to the wood dump. Picture 0879 is the first load from the pile that was next to the two Pines in picture 0880, 0881 & 82 are more dead chit from different areas, 0883 had a bunch of dead Pine in it before today, and 0884 & 85 were two trails that were blocked of with piles of dead branches which I loaded up last night.

 

Clean-up looks really good.

 

Thanks T.Jeff Veal , if we would ever get any rain, I could burn some of it. We're on the edge of being in a severe drought from the map I saw on our local news station which is out of Watertown NY.

I did use the tractor today to deliver four face cord of wood, a neighbor who ordered it last February never received it and the person would never call back from all the messages the neighbor left. Our neighbor had been getting firewood from this person for 2 or 3 years without a problem.

 

It seems like every place I look in my woodlot there are dead trees all 6" to 8" dia. mostly pine but there are some hardwoods also.

 

Before we bought our lot almost 17 years ago, the Pine should've been thinned out but it wasn't so we have a bunch of dead White Pine. It's been a bunch of work cleaning it up but a couple days in one area makes a huge difference plus we have more walking/UTV trails.

We have some Maple that needs to come down in the area I've been working but I'll wait until the leaves come off. I also like to have trails big enough that the local fire department can get their smaller fire fighting equipment that they use for grass/woods fires through.

 

Wonder what is going with that person. Glad you could deliver 1 1/3 cords to your neighbor, that's a good bit of wood.

 

I'm not sure but you should call back, if you can't deliver the wood you should give the buyer a chance to line up another wood supplier.

It was a very dry year so the original wood supplier can't say it was a wet summer. Our neighbor is covered and will have heat this winter so that's good.

Last year we didn't burn three face cord that we had planned on burning so the four face cord delivered this year only leaves us down one, that's Backwoods Savage 's new math.

 

I was able to take two utility trailer loads of junk pine to the wood dump using the 4540 with the forks. I used the forks to raise the pine mother nature brought down so I could buck it up and then split it and bring over to the outdoor fireplace.

 

Nice and dry weather for the work you did.

 

Yes it was yooperdave but the weather might get nasty tomorrow with some high winds and rain.

 

Way too windy to be in the woods!

 

Jefferson and Lewis counties just east of Lake Ontario might get the highest wind gust, hopefully it stays south of us....I don't need more downed wood.

 

When I went this morning to get some more gas for the generator, a company who does tree work in the town had a bunch of trucks parked at a rest area of route 56 so when I came home, I moved a splitter and the forks out of the woods so hopefully they're in a safe area.

We'll let this mornings fire burn out and go with propane or oil if needed.