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Sausages and peppers? Have you sent the invite to the wrong address?
I'll be trying to make some type of Italian cookie, my grandmother on my fathers side was a great cook and baker so hopefully I can make her proud.
 
Set an extra plate for me too!
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Might pass on those cinnamon rolls. Coming up on three years old now. If they aren't gone yet, there is probably a reason!
 
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Might pass on those cinnamon rolls. Coming up on three years old now. If they aren't gone yet, there is probably a reason!
A new batch each year and they taste great.
 
I finished off the second to last stack with three loads of cherry,hard maple and some smaller beech. I'll finish off the last stack with the cherry in picture 1949 that has been up for a year.
 

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This Maple (Norway?) came down about two wind events ago so today I took care of it, the rounds at the top of the tree were good but all the bigger rounds had rotted out but we'll still get some wood out of it.
 

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We have a tree that's hung up across the main trail, if this next high wind event doesn't take care of it, we'll pull it off the smaller Maple.

What are your thoughts on what type of tree it is, Ash or Basswood?
 

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We used a tree saver,cable with the winch so we could pull down this ash, it also damaged the maple it was leaning on so we took that too.

The first load was some smaller maple rounds with ash and the second load was all ash.
 

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I had a beech up the hill that mother nature brought down earlier this spring so up the hill I went, I rolled it down between the cherry and the hemlock. After all the rounds were down the hill, I took care of this maple, everything is back here. I did split some of the red maple today before coming in.

The first load was the maple and the last was the beech which I'll mix in with the ash when I stack it.

Picture 1985 is next up after I stack the wood I brought out today.
 

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I split the tree that was hung up and the beech,maple and a bunch of ash we had from the clearing we did for our new garage.

I thought the tree that was hung up was an ash but after seeing it after I split it, I'm not sure. Pics 1998,1999 and 2001 are from that tree.

I'm hoping we get over two face cord from that wood pile, I also have over 20 more rounds of ash to split.
 

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After unloading the trailer of what I think is ash, I went back in to the area I do most of my cutting after some American Hophornbeam (Ironwood) both trees were down so I bucked up one and half of the second one.

http://forestry.ohiodnr.gov/hophornbeam
 

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You need to stop posting these pictures. I am getting way too over excited.
It was a nice day to do it, we're in for some wet weather so I'm not sure when the next time I'll get out in the woods will be.

@Jan Pijpelink , are you in for any of the Nor'easter ?
 
I split the tree that was hung up and the beech,maple and a bunch of ash we had from the clearing we did for our new garage.

I thought the tree that was hung up was an ash but after seeing it after I split it, I'm not sure. Pics 1998,1999 and 2001 are from that tree.

I'm hoping we get over two face cord from that wood pile, I also have over 20 more rounds of ash to split.

The grain in 2001 looks a lot like ash to me.
 
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Our neighbor informed us that we had a small maple across the brook so I removed it today with the help of tow straps,snatch block,d shackle,cable and a winch.

I was in the water (cold) before I had the camera so I didn't get a before picture but you can see fresh dirt where I pulled it out with a indirect pull (tow strap,snatch block and d shackle around a hemlock) with the cable hooked up to the winch on the rhino.

Because the brook is shallow it freezes from the bottom up in the winter and creates some pretty good ice jams just above the bridge on our road.
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Since the warmer weather will be here for a while, we put more pine in today with some maple. It looks like we might get some high wind gust tomorrow, 50 plus mph.
 
Making a dent in the pile. Working late with a break in Harvest.
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But I added to the pile dumped it in the yard since I’m out of room behind the shop. Gotta keep at it wife will have my ass if I don’t get it cleaned up soon.

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Making a dent in the pile. Working late with a break in Harvest.
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But I added to the pile dumped it in the yard since I’m out of room behind the shop. Gotta keep at it wife will have my ass if I don’t get it cleaned up soon.

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Nice work @Medic21 , what types of firewood do you have in your stacks?

We have some possible high winds coming in tomorrow so I'm hoping the brook doesn't get any big trees put in it by mother nature, it would be cold working in there this time of year.

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Nice work @Medic21 , what types of firewood do you have in your stacks?

We have some possible high winds coming in tomorrow so I'm hoping the brook doesn't get any big trees put in it by mother nature, it would be cold working in there this time of year.

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That stack is all poplar and elm so far, two charity jobs I did for coworkers or I would have passed on both. It’s going to be spilt with ash and oak as soon as the elm is finished stacking. I have about 10 cords of ash and oak in the leantoo around the corner from there, been inside for three years now and what I’m burning. I have a ton of oak, hickory, and ash to split yet.

There is about 30 pick up loads of white and black oak down yet on the site I started on Saturday. I’ll be set for awhile.

We are getting the winds tomorrow too here. 35-45 mph. As wet as it is there will be some large trees come down. I love cleaning them up for people when I don’t have to fight through the brush in the woods.
 
That stack is all poplar and elm so far, two charity jobs I did for coworkers or I would have passed on both. It’s going to be spilt with ash and oak as soon as the elm is finished stacking. I have about 10 cords of ash and oak in the leantoo around the corner from there, been inside for three years now and what I’m burning. I have a ton of oak, hickory, and ash to split yet.

There is about 30 pick up loads of white and black oak down yet on the site I started on Saturday. I’ll be set for awhile.

We are getting the winds tomorrow too here. 35-45 mph. As wet as it is there will be some large trees come down. I love cleaning them up for people when I don’t have to fight through the brush in the woods.
That's a nice inventory of firewood. After a very dry summer, all we've been getting the last month is rain so we should have trees down if we get the high wind gust, stay safe.
 
Always love the pics! Wife was up your way this weekend and got snowed on. About 2" sticking on the road south of you in the Sevey Corners area if you know where that is. Leaves are just turning here. It's late but it's coming.
 
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Always love the pics! Wife was up your way this weekend and got snowed on. About 2" sticking on the road south of you in the Sevey Corners area if you know where that is. Leaves are just turning here. It's late but it's coming.
Seveys Point isn't far from our house. That day it would snow hard then slow up, it was like that all day.

South of Watertown NY this weekend, they could be looking at 6-12 inches. All the leaves are off the trees except for the beech and the tamarack trees are really nice to look at.

I haven't been doing that much lately, I'm dealing with a very bad heel bruise ( maybe Plantar Fasciitis ) so I have an appointment with a Podiatrist coming up. The good thing is, driving the tractor doesn't bother it so since we plow the driveway with our tractor, that is good.
 
This Maple (Norway?) came down about two wind events ago so today I took care of it, the rounds at the top of the tree were good but all the bigger rounds had rotted out but we'll still get some wood out of it.


One way to ID norway maple is when you pull a leaf off white sap bleeds from the stem. The leaves also turn a brilliant yellow in the Fall.
 
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