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heavy hammer

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Jul 18, 2015
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Kirtland Ohio
We had some cold windy weather on Friday, but Saturday was in the 40's and Subnday in the 50's. Rain all day Monday with temps in the 40's going to 60 mid week. Other than keeping the garage filled with dry wood not much new here working a lot and ready for spring. We have not burned through much wood this year but I'm looking forward to processing a lot this spring and summer.
 
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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
I spent some time today moving snow just off the driveway where I plow the snow when using the RTV to some snow storage areas in the woods.

We still have a few other areas I move snow to that still have plenty of room depending on how March goes.



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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
I think we received around 7 inches of snow, I used the 4540 opening up the driveway and then the RTV cleaning up certain areas on the driveway and plowing about five trails so the wife can get her walking in.

I'm glad that I moved that snow off the driveway the other day.

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heavy hammer

Minister of Fire
Jul 18, 2015
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Kirtland Ohio
We have not had any snow just rain and slush. Temps have not been bad just windy. I have been working a lot lately. 6-7 tens. Other than keeping the garage filled not much different here just waiting for spring and wanting to start cutting wood. My brother has over 150, 8-10 logs of maple, hickory, and beech that I ready to work on.
 
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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
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Foothills of The Adirondacks
We have not had any snow just rain and slush. Temps have not been bad just windy. I have been working a lot lately. 6-7 tens. Other than keeping the garage filled not much different here just waiting for spring and wanting to start cutting wood. My brother has over 150, 8-10 logs of maple, hickory, and beech that I ready to work on.
The work at your brothers will keep use busy. I'll wait and see what we get from this storm and then start on some dead standing pine until the hills lose the snow and ice.
 
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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
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Foothills of The Adirondacks
With the rain we received and then the freeze up after, most of the driveway was all ice. Before I sanded the driveway, I used the bucket and shaved some ice off.

I used six bags of sand on the driveway and two more on some paths leading to the woods the wife uses when walking the dog.

In picture 0626 I'm getting ready to shave some ice off, 0627 is after the shaving, 0628 is the sander after two bags were put in and 0629 is after I finished sanding the driveway.

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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
I moved a bunch of snow off the driveway again today, once the weather warms up the water runs down the driveway on the southside to the area I removed the snow from. This should help the water from running across the driveway on the corner.

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heavy hammer

Minister of Fire
Jul 18, 2015
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Kirtland Ohio
I'm looking to do some mowing and processing of firewood with the tractor this weekend. We look to have some dry warmer days perfect weather. Have fun pulling stumps, working/playing with the tractor.
 

salecker

Minister of Fire
Aug 22, 2010
2,090
Northern Canada
Hopefully this coming week, I'll be on the 4540 pulling some stumps in the area I've been cutting pine.
Do you have the backhoe attachment?
Helps to losen around the stump befor trying to pull them,or
Get a crap chain on your saw to cut some of the roots.
 

thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
Do you have the backhoe attachment?
Helps to losen around the stump befor trying to pull them,or
Get a crap chain on your saw to cut some of the roots.
Yes we do, we bought the tractor with the backhoe new in 2016. We did our own clearing of a chit load of pine trees where the new garage was built in 2018. The attached pictures are of some smaller stumps I pulled from that area.

It sure does help digging way out around the stump first and having the chainsaw with a chitty chain (but sharp) before we had the tractor, we removed the stumps by digging, cutting the roots and pulling them out with a chain with the rhino....it didn't seem that bad back then but add about 14 years on my age since we did it that way and I wouldn't be doing it that way even if we didn't have the tractor.

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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
Pictures 3826, 3827 & 3831 are of the first area I did, you can see the dead root that goes across the trail. The last two pictures are of the last area I did, I was short on time so I didn't get an after picture, I had an appointment that was made about two weeks ago.

The big root in the first picture that I removed will make that part of the trail easier to plow in the winter and run the trail mower through in the summer.

I'll get some pictures of the four dead pine (beetle kill) hopefully on Thursday.

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heavy hammer

Minister of Fire
Jul 18, 2015
1,939
Kirtland Ohio
20230625_151904.jpgResized_20230625_151916_3217.jpegPutting the tractor to work moving some 4-5 year plus old locust to the coming winters burn area. I have been saving this for some rewal cold but we just have not had the brutal temps these past few years so I figure since I have more locust than anything I'll split it smaller and mix it in with some of the softer woods. Not a bad problem to have.
 

thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
View attachment 313640View attachment 313641Putting the tractor to work moving some 4-5 year plus old locust to the coming winters burn area. I have been saving this for some rewal cold but we just have not had the brutal temps these past few years so I figure since I have more locust than anything I'll split it smaller and mix it in with some of the softer woods. Not a bad problem to have.
Nice looking firewood, we haven't had the real bad cold stretches either. Last winter we had one day/night that the temp was minus 29 point something and another 10 or 15 below but that's fine with me.

Hopefully all the pine I c/s/s since spring/summer is ready (15 face) 3 of that we want to save fore the spring but depending on how soon it gets cold, that 3 could turn into more.

We burned 12 face cord of pine last heating season that saved us just a hair under 5 face cord of hardwood, I would take that again this coming heating season.

It looks like we're in for a dry stretch, that will be nice since it seems like it has been raining forever.
 
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heavy hammer

Minister of Fire
Jul 18, 2015
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Kirtland Ohio
thewoodlands, the rain the last few weeks here have been a lot. Most of June was very dry 3 to almost 4 weeks without and rain, but we have made up for it lately. I ended up with 4-5 cords of tulip from my brothers house. Perfect for these cooler falls and early spring. I figured with all the locust I have it will work to supplement some of that in with it so spread it out and burn some of the locust I have had for years. I have more tulip coming along with some ash and beech from my youngest brothers property. I usually want about 10 truck loads of firewood/6-8 cords each year to keep up on my wood. I'm already at 9 and hoping to possible double that.
 
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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
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Foothills of The Adirondacks
thewoodlands, the rain the last few weeks here have been a lot. Most of June was very dry 3 to almost 4 weeks without and rain, but we have made up for it lately. I ended up with 4-5 cords of tulip from my brothers house. Perfect for these cooler falls and early spring. I figured with all the locust I have it will work to supplement some of that in with it so spread it out and burn some of the locust I have had for years. I have more tulip coming along with some ash and beech from my youngest brothers property. I usually want about 10 truck loads of firewood/6-8 cords each year to keep up on my wood. I'm already at 9 and hoping to possible double that.
In June in our area, it was really hot early and then cooler which was nice when working outside and then the rains moved in.

We're in a hot stretch but after all the rain, we'll take it. The skeeters aren't a problem but the deer fly are horrible.
 
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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
I cleaned out the outside fireplace that had ashes in it from the wood stove this winter along with some ashes from some fall fires, the wife wants a fire out there this week.

I pulled some smaller stumps that took one pull because they were rotten, pictures 0758 & 0762, 0766 will need to come down since it's close to a trail the wife uses, 0767 is the biggest stump I pulled (still small) picture 0774 is that area after I finished it, removing the stump in picture 0767 will allow me to keep that trail even wider in the winter and then add another one off of it and the last picture was a rotten stump that took one pull, all the stumps except for the one in picture 0769 went to the hill in the back.

This morning the temp was 44, we'll take a few more before it gets muggy again.

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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
15,805
Foothills of The Adirondacks
I removed a total of four stumps with two coming out of a snow storage area and two out of some trails, nothing big but plowing in the winter just got easier in those areas.

Since a few of those areas will see the trail mower, I did use a rake and some loppers on the smaller roots that run all over. I still have a stump in the area in picture 0826 that is close to a big White Pine so I'll get a chitty chain sharp and hand dig around the biggest roots and then cut them, hopefully I can then just pull it without touching the good White Pine roots.

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