Pine clearing for the new garage build

Is a god feeling something you give or take ?

 

fixed.


At least two a night for me.......

 

Either tomorrow afternoon or on Thursday we'll start up on the clearing for the garage.

If we can keep things clean in the area we'll be working then the plan is to fell three or four pine every other day.

 

Looking good
Started the same project a few weeks back. Snow is not the slowing factor, rather rain and wind down here.
Kind of was hoping the last big Oak I need to drop would've fallen in the storms night before last.

Glad you got the extra shackles, if you can find some reasonable nylon straps doubling the snatch block capacity is awesome when you have a machine with the traction to actually pull a hung up tree.
I'm with Backwoods Savage go with a decent climbing rope over the cable. Never snapped my 1/2" rope on a double or single block, and If I do it won't come flying at you like cable whip

 

I have enough nylon straps with two snatch blocks so we're good to go in that department, we did get a new 100 foot cable the other day so that will put us around 150 feet.

We do indirect pulls so the wife will be fine in the rhino, the tree the service took down today was between 110-120 tall.

 

Two down today with the rounds and the branches from the second tree still in the trail, I'll move the rounds and hopefully have a fire tomorrow so we can get rid of the branches.

Tomorrow I'll also scrape down the driveway and also clean the saws up.

 

Either the camera is broke or the card was full (I took about 4 or 5 pictures), I cleaned up the last pine from yesterday and then moved the brush to the burn pile today after having the oil changed in one of our vehicles.

 

Hopefully these two will be down by tomorrow after noon.

 

I did get rid of three piles of branches today.

 

Woody those are some hair lipped pines

Did you consider letting someone cut them for pulp? Or just don't want the mess?

 

We never thought about it but our neighbor up front had about three acres of pine he wanted cleared and the local guy said it wasn't enough for him to make a buck so he wouldn't do it.


This coming week will be a busy week doing other things so if I can get two trees down every other day, we'll be doing good.

 

We're getting there slowly but the area the garage will sit on will be done (tree felling) by the end of the first week of April.

The sun is strong so the frost is coming out of the ground on the north side of the house where the garage is going so hopefully I'll be putting the backhoe on by the second week of April for some stump digging.

 

I talked with our contractor the other day and he said that he wants to start at the end of April. I decided that I would fell, limb and then move log length with the 4540 so we can get done quicker.

Pictures 1260 & 61 are some pine we felled, 1262 & 63 is a before & after picture of where we took down two pine & one cherry,1264 & 65 are trees we plan on felling, 1266 is a pick of the Mahindra 4540 with the pallet forks...they're a back saver and 1267 is the area that's full of pine.

We had a bunch of pictures that were taken but never made it to the card.....maybe it's time for a new card.

 

Nice!

I tried calling a contractor for a add-on to my garage but didn't hear anything yet. Don't want to wait much longer.....

 

In the background are the pine logs I moved today along with some cherry to the front of the picture. I'm thinking I better pull the utility trailer out so I can use that area for more pine logs.

The 4540 has around 450 hours on it with a fluid check done today (all good) tomorrow I'll grease it. So far the tractor has been a workhorse.

 

It's that time of year they're lining up their work, the frost has been coming out of the ground but still not enough to popped some stumps out.

 

Thanks Well Seasoned , you fell a line of trees and there's another two or three lines waiting. We have some big ole pines coming down that should make a nice thud when they hit the ground.