It must get boring quads working on the same wood continually. Your wood always looks the same. The wood remains the same in your pictures, only the location changes.quads said:And here is a picture of it. That is all....
quads said:Nope, never boring. I love being in the woods, even if I am out there everyday, day after day, cutting and splitting black oak, sometimes white.
Some of the leftover tops etc. from the tornado damage and logging operation cleanup afterward, went to waste. I couldn't get to them all before they rotted. Once in awhile I still come across a few larger trunk sections rejected by the loggers that are salvageable for firewood, otherwise everything else is too rotted to bother with. It will be food for a future generation of trees. In the years after the tornado I hauled cord after cord after cord of good firewood from it, which would have all went to waste.
I won't ever have to cut green trees. The ones that die every year are more than enough to keep me busy on that 80 acres. And if I do ever run out of dead trees on that 80, I have 500 more acres with dead trees that are just falling over and rotting in the woods!
Backwoods Savage said:Ya, I had seen it on there quads but just wanted to raze you a bit. Haven't heard much from you lately. Figured you were either cutting wood or tending the cows. Do you still put up your own hay? I know you gave up on the other crops but those cows can eat a lot of hay no matter what. Ya know, putting up hay is one thing I sort of miss. It was always hard work and can get nasty at times but it is usually a good time. Not quite the same today with the big round bales though.
No, you're not the only one. I used to help a neighbor pick up Fescue hay in 90*+ heat and stack it in a loft. Probably about 200* up there. Those were the sweaty, itchy, dusty, chigger-bitten good old days. Never did Coke or other drugs afterwards, just a lot of beer.firefighterjake said:And here I thought I was the only person crazy enough to be a little nostalgic for the old days of haying. . . we would finish off the day's work with a Coke or Moxie.
quads said:I don't ever remember putting up any loose hay, but I do remember the first baler. It was an Allis-Chalmers that made tiny round bales, about the size of a small square bale. Actually, I think that baler is still setting out in a hedgerow somewhere on the farm. A few years ago I was cleaning out the hay loft and way at the bottom in one corner were some of those little round bales! Had to be, gosh, 40, 50 years old or more. The cows didn't seem to mind. Don't know how much nutrition they got out of them though!
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