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Stephen in SoKY

Feeling the Heat
Nov 20, 2008
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Southern Kentucky
Well crap. I was going to split/stack this last Red Oak and call it quits for the year:

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But my Walnut buyer and his loader are going to be 3 miles away next week so I took out 2 that were essentially ready to go since he was so close:

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And I wound up yarding far more walnut tops than I really want to fool with given that we're already having low eighty degree weather:

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Since I have the FEL on for loading the walnut onto my trailer I went ahead and pushed all the tops back into the river bank & out of the way of my crop tennants:

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Looks as though I'll be working up wood in the cool early morning hours whether I had planned to or not! Yes, I realize I need to replace a boatload of plank fence. I've been concentrating on the fences you can see from the road & I've let the back ones get ratty.
 
Nice pile of wood! There'll be time for the fences later, gotta get that wood split up and seasoning. Time's a wastin'!
 
Never call it quits Stephen!
 
I yarded a 28 footer this morning. I'm trying to convince myself to go back down and drag out the top for splitting. Obviously break time is winning.
 
Break time comes here quite often and they are not 10 minute breaks either!
 
UPDATE: Been a pretty good day. Buyer came and I sold 688 bf (Doyle) of butt logs, 4 logs total. Declined his offer on another 550 bf of seconds that I'm exploring options on. If nothing else I'll have the best band sawed and sticker it for a few years & sell as lumber. The remnants will get bucked & split.

Failed to take photos of the first load but here's the second load:

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And the loader my best friend had about 3 miles away from my house:

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Mine are the 4 biggest walnut logs on the load:

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Now that will make some pretty lumber for sure. Nice going.
 
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