Work Done In 2020
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What a great score and future resource. Those little rounds can be hard to stack, but do a good job filling gaps in the wood stove.
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
SpaceBus
Minister of Fire
I hadn't thought of putting them in a stove like that. I bet my long narrow stove would get super long burns with a bunch of short fat rounds like that!
stoveliker
Minister of Fire
The works not all done but there will be no splitting just bucking & stacking. I found a nice bunch of old hedge ( Osage) posts.
SpaceBus
Minister of Fire
I'll be processing tamarack fence posts sooner or later, been collecting small trees for the job. Wish we had osage!
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
If gasoline could be a solid or amber, it would be these old fence posts in your pics.
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Gearhead660
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Afternoon spent in the woods. Beautiful day for it. 
Finally got to try out the bucking stand in the field. My back likes it very much. Think chain does too.
Finally got to try out the bucking stand in the field. My back likes it very much. Think chain does too.
I haven't done much in a while, I've been dealing with pain in my right shoulder which I think is bursitis. The last two days it has been feeling better so either Wednesday or Thursday, I'll see how it feels and maybe fell a small Ash.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
Spent the day in the woods with the dogs carrying wood to fill the garage while the girls went sledding. We had a couple cold snowy days, but yesterday was sunny and 40. A good day to be outside.
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
Nice to hear that you got a break from work, we got forced in Jersey 16/8's for xmas eve thru yesterday, normally I'd be pretty upset with it, but this is just par for 2020 here.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
kennyp2339 sorry to hear that. I worked 16's till the week before Christmas. We had a couple of our sub transmission lines that needed to be reconductored and I was picked to do the job. Great money but a long six weeks. We had to replace about a mile and 1/4 of 795. between 2 big storms and crews being sent home here and there for covid protocol. 2020 was a challenging year. I'm hoping 2021 is a little better. If things go my way I'm hoping to be down in Ohio Edison in the next few months.
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
@heavy hammer 795 is no joke, about the only easy thing is pulling to rope through and the new poly clamps, but still a major pia, especially when its cold, wire doesnt want to work with you, its almost tail pipe heating season for us, we usually throw a 10ft length of hendrix cable into a exhaust pipe to heat it up so we can make leads and taps.
heavy hammer
Minister of Fire
I wish it would be easy like that sometimes for us 795 is the smaller stuff for us we have a lot of 1192, and 1590. The pulling out the old conductor and pulling in went very smooth. We used our rope machine, and tensioner and empty reel drums to pull the old stuff out and the ropes pulled in the new. We pulled in just a little under 3000 feet by four pulls one Sunday one static and all three conductors in under 8 hours. A lot of prep but a good smooth job.
Refilled the quick grab again today; going to clean out garage and make dump run this week.
EbS-P
Minister of Fire
Two afternoons of work here. Wide end is 41” only two cuts then had to sharpen 156 driver full house chain.
Evan
Evan
EbS-P
Minister of Fire
Tulip poplar. It blew down down over two years ago during hurricane Florence. The green will fade to yellows and browns.
Yesterday I thought it would be a good day to test out my shoulder so I grabbed the bow saw and cut five loads of dead pine branches from certain areas. From the feeling in my shoulder this morning, it needs more time.
The two pictures are from the fire yesterday, it really took off after I packed it full of pine and came into eat. Because I didn't charge the batteries and the cold, what juice was left in them the cold took care of.
The two pictures are from the fire yesterday, it really took off after I packed it full of pine and came into eat. Because I didn't charge the batteries and the cold, what juice was left in them the cold took care of.
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Finally finished splitting at stacking my load. Next is a few dead oak to the left of this pic
Yesterday was first time back at the "logged bush" in about a month. It was a nice day. My guess is about a chord or more in "tops" from each tree that was cut. I will get a pic of the ravine that poses some extra work to say the least.
This is what I processed about a month ago....then I got the trailer stuck....then a part in the clutch of my atv broke, so I couldn't get the trailer out....and the bike parts took a month to get, actually the parts came in 3 days, it took a month to get the clutch puller tool
Every day is an adventure
Some parts are fun, some parts seem challenging....The good news is I'm still in the game 
