Mahindra 4540

[thewoodlands]

The sander/spread is all cleanup and it's ready for storage after I grease it, I'll also will take an inch off the pto shaft this week.

I did wash the tractor off in certain areas, I removed any grease with a Turtle Wax Bug & Tar remover. IIt seems like its been a good month since I've used the tractor so I checked the fluids, everything was good.

 

[thewoodlands]

We are in for several days of rain, however I've come to realize Mainers have a loose definition of rain. Foggy mist is considered rain here.

We've received a chit load of rain overnight and today, the brook is up there pretty good. I saw that Rome New York had a tornado warning this afternoon.

We'll see how my footing is tomorrow on the backhill where I'm felling the ash, hopefully I can get another four on the ground. I did make my way over to the local stihl dealer for two chains for a 25 inch bar that I had for milling some smaller stuff, cutting with that should be nice.

 

[heavy hammer]

It seems like everyone is out cutting in between rain storms. I have a lot of wood to move and grass to cut but same here thewoodlands it rained all day here with temps in the low 50's. I even fired the stoves back up to take the chill out.

 

[thewoodlands]

It seems like everyone is out cutting in between rain storms. I have a lot of wood to move and grass to cut but same here thewoodlands it rained all day here with temps in the low 50's. I even fired the stoves back up to take the chill out.

I think tomorrow night we'll burn the last of the pine we brought in over a week ago with some rounds of maple that had been covered for about three years for use in the outdoor fireplace.

I'm sure the people who get their would delivered each year will get it later this year because of all the rain.

 

[heavy hammer]

I used the tractor to mow and help the neighbor pull out a couple smaller pine trees I'll put some pics up later. The sun is out going to be another warm day plenty of tractor stuff to do.

 

[heavy hammer]

 

[thewoodlands]

I used the tractor to mow and help the neighbor pull out a couple smaller pine trees I'll put some pics up later. The sun is out going to be another warm day plenty of tractor stuff to do.

We got some serious rain last night around 12 but today was a dry windy day so I sharpened a few more chains, I should be good for chains until winter.

Tomorrow I plan on getting another ash (pic 9076) out of the gully and maybe fell another cherry, getting rid of the cherry will open the gully up for more ash removal this fall, I also think cherry has some rot to it.

 

[Hammy]

Nice grapple @heavy hammer !

Looks like a nice ash find @thewoodlands. Wish I had some on my property but probably for the best as the EAB is getting into NB now.

 

[thewoodlands]

Nice grapple @heavy hammer !

Looks like a nice ash find @thewoodlands. Wish I had some on my property but probably for the best as the EAB is getting into NB now.

That's where most of them are so I'll take care of what I have on the ground (10.5 trees this year) hopefully by next weekend, I'll be stacking.

I have two face cord from last year stacked with close to another two in a pile and all the stuff from this year, hopefully we get 8 - 9 face cord from all the ash. We'll start on more ash this fall.

 

[heavy hammer]

Thanks Hammy I love the grapple a very useful attachment as you can see. I almost never use the bucket anymore.

 

[thewoodlands]

All the nuts & bolts on the backhoe frame on the tractor were pretty snug except for one that needed snugging up, the tractor is ready for the backhoe. I'll need to move some bags of sand before I put the backhoe on.

 

[heavy hammer]

Now its ready for summer work.

 

[SpaceBus]

I'm still waiting for my BH...

 

[thewoodlands]

Now its ready for summer work.

I never had much luck getting the hoe on when it was stored outside on sand so I'm hoping this year with it on cement it will be much easier. Last year the guy who works on the tractors at the Mahindra dealer came over to help after I went 0-5 trying to get it on, it took him another 45 minutes before he got the hoe on. He was telling me the combination of the hoe sinking in along with the back of the tractor doing the same made it the worst place for the hoe to be (my fault) if I had to do it over again, I would've bought a chipper with grapple instead of the hoe.

I did have some three inch thick pine boards under the stabilizers and the bucket last year but that didn't help much.

 

[heavy hammer]

A friend of mine dropped of a dump load of ash today from a job he is doing right down the road I'll get some pics when I'm it. The wood keeps coming in.

 

[thewoodlands]

I took the 028 Wood Boss to the pine we felled a few days ago, I split some and the last two pics we'll get some boards out of. The branches will be brought to the wood dump since that is a main trail which we want opened up quick.

 

[SpaceBus]

Those are some good sized logs! What's your smallest size for the mill? I'm debating over keeping any of the logs I have set aside since it will be a while until I clear space for the mill.

 

[thewoodlands]

Those are some good sized logs! What's your smallest size for the mill? I'm debating over keeping any of the logs I have set aside since it will be a while until I clear space for the mill.

I have an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill with a 36 inch bar with 15 foot of rails, it has been about three years since I milled anything so the chains are getting a nice soaking in some WD 40.

I'm not sure what the smallest log is that I've milled but most of my milling was done on some nice size Hemlocks.

 

[thewoodlands]

Those are some good sized logs! What's your smallest size for the mill? I'm debating over keeping any of the logs I have set aside since it will be a while until I clear space for the mill.

Here are some of the pics from what I posted many years ago,
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/logs-for-milling.112393/#post-1496807

 

[thewoodlands]

A friend of mine dropped of a dump load of ash today from a job he is doing right down the road I'll get some pics when I'm it. The wood keeps coming in.

Does that friend deliver to New York?

 

[heavy hammer]

I don't think he will go that far I lucked out a friend of mine his parents had their property cleared of all their dead ash probably 100+ trees.
Then another buddy of mine who is an excavator got the job of completely redoing their yard and making it look nice stump removal etc. I ended up with two dump loads so far and he has removed five others to other places. Plus I ended up taking 10 pickup loads out before he started. I'll try and get some pics tomorrow but I was moving wood last night till 10 to get it all off the driveway since rain was heading our way and today I knew I would be working on my bathroom.

 

[thewoodlands]

I don't think he will go that far I lucked out a friend of mine his parents had their property cleared of all their dead ash probably 100+ trees.
Then another buddy of mine who is an excavator got the job of completely redoing their yard and making it look nice stump removal etc. I ended up with two dump loads so far and he has removed five others to other places. Plus I ended up taking 10 pickup loads out before he started. I'll try and get some pics tomorrow but I was moving wood last night till 10 to get it all off the driveway since rain was heading our way and today I knew I would be working on my bathroom.

It sounds like your wood inventory is great.

 

[heavy hammer]

I have about 3 years worth. I just need to move some before I can start cutting and stacking more. I just need the yard to dry out a little for that.

 

[thewoodlands]

I have about 3 years worth. I just need to move some before I can start cutting and stacking more. I just need the yard to dry out a little for that.

We have about 3.5 up but with all the ash we'll be back over 4 years and then the fall ash we plan taking down should put us around 5.

It's still wet here with more rain at the moment, I did get back in on our bigger lot and the trails are real good for the amount of rain we received. The deer were looking at me like they wanted to say, where in the heck have you been and they looked like they're in good shape.

 

[heavy hammer]

The more years ahead the better thewoodlands. I can't seem to get more than a day or two before it rains again. I have a few trees to take down some big ash as well. I'm hoping for a couple dry days so I can move this coming years wood up close to the house. I have a area for about 4-5 cords fifty feet from the house. Once that is restocked I plan on filling the stacks back up with the log piles I have. A few days of cutting, splitting and stacking I can get a lot of wood processed and drying for the coming years. I think once everything is processed I should have close to five years ahead. But like others have stated winters might not be real cold but they just never seem to end I burned from Mid Oct. till end of May and I would have had a fire these last couple nights if the stoves weren't cleaned.