Beautiful picture. She will always remember the nice warmth coming from that stove. BTW, is the steamer sitting on a trivet?
No trivet here, just an optional top lid to load the stove which I never understood. Opening that would just let the smoke in the house vs out the flue.
Had bad winds last week and my woodshed was a victim of a snapped ash branch. I’ve had so many come down it’s downright dangerous. We are going scorched earth on the ash this year. A couple in the photo for mixed species of cherry and hickory but mostly ash. Anybody want a G2G in NE CT?
If you're serious, I'm sure there would be some interest. Plenty of hoarders within a couple hours drive. Post a thread
Id love to have one. jo191145 had one last May and it was a great time. Had to postpone a day due to rain. CCGTG If you're serious start a thread and pick a weekend. Id prefer it not too hot to work on wood.
Well this year is going to be the year of the ash. Started working on some yesterday. Mostly tops that snapped in the wind, stabbed in the ground like a new tree. A few leaders hung up in tops. Falling without any weight at the top and using wedges was good practice. Was very surprised bucking up something I thought was rotted turned out to pretty decent and fairly dry. Lots of standing dead here so hope the others are at least sub 30. PS that’s not my barber chair, that’s from the wind storm a few weeks ago.
Looks like a saw cut to me on the barber chair......... But I found out ash will barber chair in a second. First one I ever cut did, Good Lord was looking after me the day, fence on my left, steep creek bank on the right, no where to run. It stayed hung on the top...
It is pretty straight from a far but all wind. Now that particular ash was also a place we hung targets. Was shocked I couldn’t see any lead among the breakage. It didn’t seem to break where the bulk the of the action would have been Haven’t decided if I’m just going to cut it at the break and leave a tall stump or what. Don’t really want to subject any chains to FMJs
Two new toys…err tools to the homestead this week. Was on a business trip to NJ and surfing marketplace and my eye caught an Alaskan mill 30” model for $100. Something I’ve had in the “someday” bucket but for the price and size jumped on it. Guy was super flexible as I was leaving the business meeting and would pass by his area (almost 2 hours from home) and hit all sorts of rain and traffic delays. Then as you might have seen on my grinder post, new to me chain grinder. Once I have it really dialed in my tree buddy might be wishing he spent the time tinkering haha
Careful, milling becomes addictive real quick. Next thing you know you'll have planks sticker stacked all over the place. On a side note, grind normal chain to 10-15 degrees top plate angle and skip the dedicated rip chain. It works just fine.
Did some cutting this weekend. Have had a Cherry that leans too much towards the house and the stump hasn’t looked too healthy. In order to have a nice pocket for that, needed to drop one of the dead ash. The cherry had probably a 20* back lean from where it needed to go. Dropped the ash on Friday night with my son and the Cherry today with my dad. So I used a throw rope and beanbag to get up into the tree. Then pulled up my big rope. Tied up a running bowline. Snugged that up. Then repeated that process and took that rope 90* and tied it to a tree to ensure it wouldn’t go sideways or backwards. Then we had a chain around a tree for an anchor and attached a comealong to the big rope and put tension on it. Cut the face cut and cranked up some more tension, then the back cut leaving a thicker hinge and stuck a wedge in for good measure and cranked it the rest of the way over. Glad God kept that tree where it was until I could get to it because it wasn’t going to last much longer. Nothing like finding live grubs in your hingewood.
Leaving for church yesterday we came upon a good sized oak taking up half the road. Figured if it was still there when we got back I’d take care of it. Not much of a dangerous situation on our little back road. Drove the tractor down with the forks and 550xp. Turned out to be a lot bigger and a lot less rotted than it looked from the car window. Must have been root rot as the wood was pretty solid. Original plan was to cut it to logs and put it in the woods with the tractor but then I decided I wanted this I mean it’s red oak and it’s my birthday and I don’t scrounge for wood anymore and that dopamine hit was right there. As I finished my cuts the public works guys showed up and thanked me. They threw the branches in the woods and used a backpack blower to clean the road. I figured I might as well take a load with me now. Had a family gathering to get to and then will be out of town for work so if it’s still there when I get back, I know what I’ll be doing haha. It’s my favorite - red oak and not so big you can’t pick up the rounds when bucked.
Always my reaction when I drive by roadside wood. Seems to look smaller through the truck window Good on you for cleaning it up and getting some wood out of it? Hopefully your town will take a few bucks off your property tax bill???
