- Dec 9, 2009
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Walked the property today--3.5 acres of wooded hillside. Most of it is poplar, 50-60' tall. Lots of trees down in one section especially. Took a hatchet along and did some thunking, and while some of it is mush, most of it is still ringing like a bell--managed to land in a semi-elevated position.
The land slopes down and is bounded by a highway on the bottom, and I was trying to figure out how to get the wood to the road where I can throw it in my truck and bring it back around up to the house. I had initially planned on dragging it in 9' lengths to the road (this is very dry stuff), but it's a poke. I think the answer might be to cut it to rounds, stack it, wait until there's snow on the ground, and pull it to the road by sled. It's slower than bringing it down the way I'd first hoped, but it's do-able that way.
I'm pretty sure there's 5-6 cords there that is useable, if not more. I want this to mix with my birch for the quick heat, and use ot for shoulder burns. I am just a little flummoxed about how to get it. I don't have anything like a quad or snowmachine or winch for moving it, so have to figure this out.
Another concern is that there is some standing dead stuff that has bark split all the way up the trunk, that looks ready to come down, but the trees are thick enough to where they're going to make that tricky. And there are a few pick-up-sticks tangles involving 4-6 trees. The six-tree one looked untangleable, but the other is more of a muddle--and right in the heart of some thick scavenging. I'm wondering if I would be wiser to try to drop that stuff before I attempted to work in the area.
Want to get moving on this before the trees leaf out, which will make it harder to see what I've got up there.
Any ideas, suggestions?
Someone also offered me a log cabin that they want torn down. Sounds like the roof is off already. I will go up to their place when their driveway is a little less muddy and see what that looks like. She said it was big spruce logs, and that I'd be able to drive up to it. It sounds like a summer of a lot of work, should be a productive one.
The land slopes down and is bounded by a highway on the bottom, and I was trying to figure out how to get the wood to the road where I can throw it in my truck and bring it back around up to the house. I had initially planned on dragging it in 9' lengths to the road (this is very dry stuff), but it's a poke. I think the answer might be to cut it to rounds, stack it, wait until there's snow on the ground, and pull it to the road by sled. It's slower than bringing it down the way I'd first hoped, but it's do-able that way.
I'm pretty sure there's 5-6 cords there that is useable, if not more. I want this to mix with my birch for the quick heat, and use ot for shoulder burns. I am just a little flummoxed about how to get it. I don't have anything like a quad or snowmachine or winch for moving it, so have to figure this out.
Another concern is that there is some standing dead stuff that has bark split all the way up the trunk, that looks ready to come down, but the trees are thick enough to where they're going to make that tricky. And there are a few pick-up-sticks tangles involving 4-6 trees. The six-tree one looked untangleable, but the other is more of a muddle--and right in the heart of some thick scavenging. I'm wondering if I would be wiser to try to drop that stuff before I attempted to work in the area.
Want to get moving on this before the trees leaf out, which will make it harder to see what I've got up there.
Any ideas, suggestions?
Someone also offered me a log cabin that they want torn down. Sounds like the roof is off already. I will go up to their place when their driveway is a little less muddy and see what that looks like. She said it was big spruce logs, and that I'd be able to drive up to it. It sounds like a summer of a lot of work, should be a productive one.