Messy stuff that white pine. Sap and branches yuk Some nice maples for your stacks. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I wear old clothes and the same pair of gloves. If/when they get bad I throw them out. Breaking in a new pair of steel toed boots. Limbing these pines on the ground the nose of the saw gets a little close to my tippy toes. My other boots had no steel and aren't water proof any more.
Well billb3 you sure got your work cut out for you. Be safe taking all those trees apart. Happy milling too!
Got a tiny bit of time in this afternoon. Saw and me ran out of gas at about the same time. Working on a storm downed oak: The top is dangling over a 25 foot cliff and propped up by a bunch of smaller trees I'd rather not cut out of the way and to remove pressure points. I'm trying to cut as much weight off as possible and then remove the trunk and the pine behind it to get the tractor in to try to pull it back from hanging off the cliff. Or give it a shove and push it where it is trying to go.
I'm confused. Is this a thread that includes Riley picks and Skyler pics? Hasn't snowed since Tuesday.
Yes, I have just been adding to the original thread. The LAst Northeaster was the only one we got snow. Maybe I should go back to using my little Canon camera that can put the date on the pic ?
Looks like one heck of a storm! You know, mayonnaise works wonders for cleaning up pine pitch. Seems a little weird scrubbing down with it, but I’ve not found anything better.
Finished up a red oak blowdown this afternoon. Untangled most of the tops. Moving some trunk rounds: Pulling a branch back from hanging off the cliff and hung up: There was a couple of them to untangle" I usually don't stack rounds but I stacked rounds.
looks like nature did a lot of thinning leaving you with more work than time. pace yourself. garden awaits you too.
That miracle whip isn't mayonnaise. notice how it disappears after it has been put in something. mayonnaise will stay around, but the miracle whip just melts into some oil mess.
Nice storm cleanup. Looks like it was standing dead. Very nice knockdown. Sent from my SM-T280 using Tapatalk
I wish it was dead standing. This was the oak I had the middle cut up in post #24. I finished the trunk and the tops today. Quite green, quite heavy. The deer might find the pile of tops. Or maybe the ones I gave a push and they went down the cliff part way. I do have some dead oaks near there on the list but they've only been dead for a year so not much weight loss. :-(
Not much time today: A smallish white oak that was busted about 8 feet up : Pulled another red oak branch up the hill from the tree I thought I was done with yesterday. Some are splittable, a day /day and a half of heat: A small pine blown over, sapling to stack on: Dead Pine, I suppose I could just leave it for the bugs and birds.
Soil temp is 42ºF, a few days yet to plant peas I think. Maybe this weekend, might be better to wait another week. We'll see how much sun we get.
)we still have several inches of snow. The ground is showing at the base of some trees or high spots. Rain in the forecast but then unseasonably cold next week.
Spent the day pruning a hemlock hedgerow at Mom's. Pruned about 10 feet off the tops leaving them at about 15 feet and then pruning back as much as I could without having just sticks left. They've gotten way too big. It was either that or cut them down. Quite a few broken snow damaged branches is what got me started and then I just kept hacking away. LOL Got a few minutes of saw time in before the sun set. One pine that snapped. The inside was rotten. No bugs, just all dried up. Another one that snapped, all dried up in the center. A little one. This one was dead standing, pretty sure from the drought. If you're gonna drop it and miss might as well hang it up on a blow down right ? This was next, but I called it a day. Forgot to cut the stump to the ground. It won't go anywhere. The stuff that looks like it is split or splitter trash on the ground is how the green pines that shattered were crumbled inside.
De-limbed and cut up two pine trees this aft before the rain came. Mostly to open my trail. I need to get to downed maple for 2019/20. Rain started about two hours earlier than forecast. Maybe it will end earlier too, two days from now. At least it is rain and not snow. I can't do that hill with turf tires in the snow.
