Spent more time limbing than bucking but I pulled two logs off the hill, the first was the Cherry and the second was the Maple, bucked up 37 rounds. Tomorrow I'll pull the Cherry off the top of the Maple then go after the Maple.
I pulled one off the hill Wednesday (left the camera at the house) went at it later this afternoon, pulled three off today. Depending on the weather my plans are to get the Maple on the bottom (yellow) then the Cherry on the top, just some pictures from tonight.
Bogydave, I hope they put out more, so far it went better than expected, a few more logs then it's off to some Beech on a hill. Gasifier, I have lots of splitting left, wOOd you like to break your splitter in?
Nice wood, but working in that thick brush and on a hillside is double duty and dangerous. Hope all goes well with you. Take your time!
You have a nice stash of rounds you've already collected! Those cherry and maple will make some excellent firewood and split like butter. That maple piece has some funky coloring going on in the center?
Just finished cleaning the saws, sharpened the chains, I also brought the rakers down on both chains so I'm ready for tomorrow morning.
Good gravy, with all the rounds you keep getting, it's a wonder there's any firewood left in North America for the rest of us. Heheh. Some of those pics look lousy with brush. Still, what seems to be an endless supply of wood must be awful nice. I am envious.
Most of my limbing was done down at the processing area, I'll get a picture of the brush today, when I doing any limbing up top, the area I worked was clean. It's nice to have the wood Mother Nature keeps putting down but it's still a chit load of work.
We had some trees blow down with the big root balls. Two in particular were red oaks. We cut them when the ground was frozen so nothing happened with the root balls. Later when the ground thawed, one stood back up and the other only partially stood up.
I did get the two logs off the hill, the first was a Maple and the second was a Cherry. The Maple came down without a problem but the Cherry stuck in the area that flattens out before dropping again, I grabbed another tree saver,snatch block and a d-shackle so I could get some lift, it worked perfect. On to the Beech tomorrow.
More pics, I spent more time getting the dirt off the logs than cutting them. Pic 9135 are some rounds that I rolled down the hill when I first started working this area, if things go well tomorrow I plan on splitting this stuff next week. The wind gust finally chased me from the woods.
Here's all the limbing I did down in the work zone, up on the hill there still are some nice size branches that wOOd work nice in the shoulder season.
"I spent more time getting the dirt off the logs than cutting them." … I hate it when the bark is full of chain destroying dirt… almost as much as when I drive the bar down into that same dirt…
