Burned most of my Saturday driving up town for some lumber and rail road sleepers. Did get the leaner honey locust down yesterday. Sawed a load off for my buddy and tossed in his truck. I kept the butt log. Had meant to do some shooting afterwards but lost track of time hauling about 25 buckets of bank run up from the crick to cover the area above and start filling in a ditch. Almost ready for the shed which should be coming in about a month. Gonna get the pole saw out and do some trimming yet. No other 'hazard' trees in immediate vicinity. Kinda spindly walnut but it seems healthy.
At first I was being 'greedy' thinking, oh yeah, some orange wood for my stacks. Then realized that the guy helping me should be taking the smalls as he's trying to build a hoard. The one leader was dead and already dry so he took all of it. I've been trying to emphasize that for year one he needs to collect 'pre seasoned' stuff since nothing else will be ready for stove.
It's only right. He's the only one to ever give me a hand with my property chores. He used to do it just for recreation, but is going to be a full fledged burner soon. He's been around me enough to understand the importance of dry fuel.
Weather bust Saturday. Got some weedeating done yesterday. Did the bank of doom and a few little spots then loaded up and headed to buddy's shooting range to do some cleanup.
Storm brought some havoc in the crick valley. Whole lotta rain in a short period. Gonna need to get some rock in here. Otherwise new drainage performed as needed. Preview of a hell of a mess. Beech top fell into crick causing a back up and flow around. Garbage everywhere. I got one lot weedate yesterday before having a quick look at the damage. Then I ran off to go work on friend's shooting range.
This happens every so often. 85% of the time the crick doesn't even flow visibly. Drains probably 200 or so acres and gets pretty rowdy when the sky opens up. It'll rage for 24-36 hours then back to nothing. The *good part is that I likely just got 20 more ton of free bank run to use. (I haul it away, heavy rains refill the hole) While technically not gravel, works well as substitute.
Did an hour of weedeating Saturday then made some bags for the stand. Not a big day. Been working at a buddy's place in afternoons. Raked all the leaves off my in woods woodstacks, unloaded my railroad ties and then did a garden hose wash on the buggy yesterday. Cleared a couple culverts of debris blocking them. Then went to shoot a couple rifles.
