Since the snow hasn't started piling up yet, I have been taking advantage of this time to cut wood waaaaay out in the brush where I can't get to it in deep snow!
No snow.......yet!
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Since the snow hasn't started piling up yet, I have been taking advantage of this time to cut wood waaaaay out in the brush where I can't get to it in deep snow!
Woody Stover
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Coach B
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Looks good! We got an inch of snow at our place here in Tennessee this morning. However, I'm sure it won't be "piling up" around here anytime soon. 
firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
About an inch predicted tonight . . . such promise with the pre-Halloween and pre-Thanksgiving Day storms . . . only to have it all melt away. The way we're going I figure we'll get another big one on Christmas Eve . . .
Stinks for sledders . . . good for those of us still cutting firewood.
Stinks for sledders . . . good for those of us still cutting firewood.
Lumber-Jack
Minister of Fire
Nice picture quads
A perfect winter around here means no significant snow down in the valley bottoms, and lots of snow up in the mountains for skiers and everyone to enjoy.
Right now there is no snow down in the valleys where I live, but there’s a few inches up in the mountains where I get my wood.
Actually I would rather have no snow up where I cut because it’s safer to go off road with the truck, but I got delayed with my cutting this year. Even though we stayed on the road because of the snow, we still managed to fill up the truck from one spot, just had to carry some of it a little further than usual. Although one big tree we didn’t have to carry far at all, I dropped it right across the road and backed the truck right up to it.
My wife doing her victory dance on top of the fire wood load.
A perfect winter around here means no significant snow down in the valley bottoms, and lots of snow up in the mountains for skiers and everyone to enjoy.
Right now there is no snow down in the valleys where I live, but there’s a few inches up in the mountains where I get my wood.
Actually I would rather have no snow up where I cut because it’s safer to go off road with the truck, but I got delayed with my cutting this year. Even though we stayed on the road because of the snow, we still managed to fill up the truck from one spot, just had to carry some of it a little further than usual. Although one big tree we didn’t have to carry far at all, I dropped it right across the road and backed the truck right up to it.
My wife doing her victory dance on top of the fire wood load.
Victory?? Whatever she did, she was victorious in getting YOU to lug the wood :coolsmirk:
What good is winter without snow?!?
What good is winter without snow?!?
bogydave
Minister of Fire
Great pic Lots of colorful leaves still.
I don't see big old trees, did this area have a blight or was it once farm land?
Hope you find your maul, I know it would be in the pictures if you hadn't lost it. :lol:
I don't see big old trees, did this area have a blight or was it once farm land?
Hope you find your maul, I know it would be in the pictures if you hadn't lost it. :lol:
albert1029
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bogydave
Minister of Fire
May have jinxed yourself, using the "S" word.
BackwoodsS did & in a few days, had to plow snow & pick up broken limbs from his driveway.
BackwoodsS did & in a few days, had to plow snow & pick up broken limbs from his driveway.
Thanks! That is a 2006 Polaris Hawkeye 300 4x4. Only made them two years, I believe.Backwoods said:
We had 4 inches a month ago, then it melted, then we had a little here and there, but the last of it melted again.Coach B said:Looks good! We got an inch of snow at our place here in Tennessee this morning. However, I'm sure it won't be "piling up" around here anytime soon.
1-3....inches? Or feet? Around here they would never issue a winter storm warning for anything under 6 inches, and even then it would have to be accompanied by ice or something.basswidow said:
I like snow, even though I'm not a snowmobiler anymore. Sometimes I miss snowmobiling.....firefighterjake said:
Thanks! And nice pic to you too! Love the wife's victory dance. Hope those rounds don't shift on her....oops!Carbon_Liberator said:
I know what you mean about carrying wood out through the snow. I have an ice-fishing sled for that. Just fill it up and walk back and forth between trailer and tree.
HA! The maul was around there somewhere! Those are white oak and they will hold their leaves like that all winter. The land here was prairie/grassland less than 75 years ago, there were no trees, or very few then. What big trees we did have in this section of the woods got tipped over by a tornado and then cleaned up by the loggers several years ago.bogydave said:
The snow missed us by 50 miles. I got 3/4" of rain.Pat53 said:We were supposed to get 3-6" last weekend and didn't get any, all rain instead, so my "logging operation" scrounge will be extended !
Jack Straw
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JP11
Minister of Fire
Everyone is different.
I want the snow to go get wood. I've got a new cab tractor.. and don't venture too far off the drive to get wood. I've been cutting some of the blow downs and stacking them for later pickup with the snowmobile.
I've got a 500WT skandic, and just bought a nice Alamo sled. Think it will be a good time hauling wood with it.
JP
I want the snow to go get wood. I've got a new cab tractor.. and don't venture too far off the drive to get wood. I've been cutting some of the blow downs and stacking them for later pickup with the snowmobile.
I've got a 500WT skandic, and just bought a nice Alamo sled. Think it will be a good time hauling wood with it.
JP
Yup, I've been saving the dead trees close to the trails for when the snow does come. Snow/no snow, either way I keep plugging along! HA!JP11 said:
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
It is on those snowless days that I try to take advantage of by cutting anything that grows on the slopes. I hate slipping in the snow, especially when a chain saw is in my hands.
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