Just a few pictures of some trails I cleared today along with getting a dead standing Maple that will be split tomorrow, I'll get a moisture content reading on the Maple after I split it.
The back lane above the gully along with the entrance is getting wider and cleaner, pic 0850 is one of the entrances that I made wider by taking down a dead pine and 0855 is after, 0857, 0858 and 59 are the dead standing Maple I felled yesterday after I split it and took a moisture content reading,0862 is one of the loads of dead pine I split that is by the outdoor fireplace and 0863 is more pickup of a dead pine that was taken down from the back lane. The last picture is the last dead pine that will be taken down in that area this fall.
I cut up some of the biggest of the Ash tops in the back gully, I still have more left but they'll have to wait. Today I grabbed two loads of smaller rounds.
Just another day dealing with dead White Pine, I split two trailer loads of the better stuff which is over by the outside fireplace waiting for a good hard rain and the bigger rotting stuff against the White Pine and on the ground is cut up enough so I can bring that over to the fireplace.
I'm still cleaning up dead pine, over by the fireplace is full so I'm waiting for a good soaking rain and then I'll start burning all the junk pine. Picture 0894 is from a ride yesterday, 0895 is where I started , 0898 is after most of it cleaned up and the rest is dead [ine going over to the outside fireplace.
I had dead pine by the fireplace but once it started to rain hard, I started the fire and ran around the house property cleaning up certain areas. I hauled 10-12 loads of dead pine from just off the trails I've been working on. The rain came down hard for most of the day but we needed it.
Mother Nature came through with some heavy rains again today so the cleanup continued, I've gotten rid of a bunch of dead pine in the last two days so the area I've been working is looking much better. Pic 0933 is a before and 0938 is after and 0936 is some smaller Ash that will be stacked.
Just some before and after pictures of the area I've been cleaning up. Picture 0887 is before and 0944 is after, 0888 is before and 0945 is after.
After I get the dead downed chit taken care of in an area, I go after the standing wind damaged trees and the dead trees. I also take down the tall thin pines that will never be good trees which usually gets me to your last point. I've thinned it out in certain parts and the clearing I did with the help of my wife for the new garage in 2018 did plenty for that over grown area on the northside. The spot that I just cleared has some Hemlock and Beech growing, the deer use to like that area at night until Mother Nature made a mess of it but hopefully they use it again. There are times when I would rather be doing other things but after you see the results of the cleanup, it makes me get after a new area. Mother Nature has come through with some heavy rain which makes burning this stuff in the outside fireplace much safer back here in the Pines. We've lost plenty of leaves off the trees so hopefully in another week or two, I can start felling our fall Ash.
I did some limbing up of some old White Pine on a main trail and then brought four loads over to the fireplace, I still have more down but the sky was darkening up with the winds picking up so I called it a day. I took down some smaller Maple in picture 1025 and in picture 1028 at the opposite end, you can see the difference.
The first three pictures should be some American Hophornbeam (Ironwood) that I split and stacked today, the last pictures are of some Yellow Birch and one White Birch that I split and stacked.
I haven't been taking the camera out but this week has been more of limbing up of Pines for future trails and for access to more dead Pine. Hopefully we get the rains they're forecasting for tonight so I can get rid of everything by the outside fireplace. Since I didn't have any pictures, I'll put one up of the Brook. I'll visit this area one more time before winter, it should be nice and cold.
I did some trail clearing today (didn't take a picture of everything} I hadn't been to the area in picture 1052 in years but on the way to it, I cleared out two dead pine and up the hill was a dead Hemlock, 1053 is a rotten Basswood that came down across the trail,1054 is a dead rotten Maple that I cleared , 1055 is the after picture of 1054, 1058 is coming back home down 1052.
It was but the winds started to pick up near the end. It was raining today so things are wet again but I did reduce some pine in the outdoor fireplace.
Covered up some solar yard lights for the winter at the cottage as well as removing the P-traps on all sink drains and removing water from the toilet. Should be it now....c'mon freeze up. Hope to be down there for a couple wood fires in the garage (Yes, I do have a wood stove in the garage....all legal and insured.... ) and some clean up and small chores in the garage.
