I feel like a dog chasing it's tail!
I probably have 4 or 5 cords in pallet U's. 3 of which is good for next winter burning. (I don't have the boiler yet, still waiting on the fab man to get started on my storage tanks)
I'm fortunate enough to have my dad (he's 64) decide that he normally is lazy in winter when there's no golf. He's taken up wood splitting for exercise.
I probably have a cord waiting to be stacked on the pallets when I get home. He did all red oak. So it needs to get stuffed out of the way for 13/14. I have this desire to get thru ALL of my pile. I probably have another 2 cord of hemlock and dead standing and blowdowns that will be next winter's wood.
BUT.. my lot is wet. So now that the ground is frozen, and we have a foot of snow... NOW is the time to get out there and gather in the wet areas on the old skid roads that are really only accessible by snowmobile and sled in winter.
I guess I just need to stack it and get it out of the way for dad.. but other than that concentrate of gathering. I won't be able to split in mud season, at least I could split.. but getting the tractor out there to carry the pallets off would make a mess. Right now is the ONLY time I can gather anywhere on the 70 acres. Summertime I can gather the easy pickins along the driveway and a little on the trails. I'm trying to be gentle on the cab tractor and not bash it about on the trails. I'm eying a dual axle ATV trailer. My dad has a nice 800 polaris ATV.. and I think he'd like to leave it at my house in summer to play in my woods.
I just need to watch him like a hawk on the saw. Not for safety.. but he likes to CUT! He'll whack down everything! I've been keeping him to dead standing and blowdowns. Maybe I'll just get some marking paint then turn him loose.
Good problems to have.. I know. But I guess my priority ought to be gather!
JP
I probably have 4 or 5 cords in pallet U's. 3 of which is good for next winter burning. (I don't have the boiler yet, still waiting on the fab man to get started on my storage tanks)
I'm fortunate enough to have my dad (he's 64) decide that he normally is lazy in winter when there's no golf. He's taken up wood splitting for exercise.
I probably have a cord waiting to be stacked on the pallets when I get home. He did all red oak. So it needs to get stuffed out of the way for 13/14. I have this desire to get thru ALL of my pile. I probably have another 2 cord of hemlock and dead standing and blowdowns that will be next winter's wood.
BUT.. my lot is wet. So now that the ground is frozen, and we have a foot of snow... NOW is the time to get out there and gather in the wet areas on the old skid roads that are really only accessible by snowmobile and sled in winter.
I guess I just need to stack it and get it out of the way for dad.. but other than that concentrate of gathering. I won't be able to split in mud season, at least I could split.. but getting the tractor out there to carry the pallets off would make a mess. Right now is the ONLY time I can gather anywhere on the 70 acres. Summertime I can gather the easy pickins along the driveway and a little on the trails. I'm trying to be gentle on the cab tractor and not bash it about on the trails. I'm eying a dual axle ATV trailer. My dad has a nice 800 polaris ATV.. and I think he'd like to leave it at my house in summer to play in my woods.
I just need to watch him like a hawk on the saw. Not for safety.. but he likes to CUT! He'll whack down everything! I've been keeping him to dead standing and blowdowns. Maybe I'll just get some marking paint then turn him loose.
Good problems to have.. I know. But I guess my priority ought to be gather!
JP
