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thewoodlands

Minister of Fire
Aug 25, 2009
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In The Woods
With the help of my wife on the rhino we dropped a bigger dead white pine along with two small white pines. Had the tree saver around the dead pine with the cable hooked to the winch so we could pull it through the tops of the pines around it, after splitting that I ran down to the mess from about three weeks ago then split some of the pine in that area, attached are some pictures.

Looks like we will take down two more dead pine tomorrow in the first area we work today.


zap
 

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I know pine gets bashed by some but I like it. With all those trees that looks a bit tricky in there.
 
Nice pics
Sure is pretty wood :)
With all the clean up you are getting done this winter, you should get a jump on starting the cabin build :)
 
I don't think this part was ever thinned out, looks like another job. Some of it felt like it was ready for the stove, I'll get a m/m reading tonight.

zap
 
bogydave, looks like a summer of milling before we start the cabin, maybe the woodshed before the cabin.

Sure did smell good Treepointer, just hope it's ready for this fall.

zap
 
by the looks of those pics of the splits, Zap, I think it will be ready by early summer! Make sure to post pics of the milling you do this year, I may do some myself for woodshed lumber. We have a couple 'bigguns' to do here in March.......pines. Gonna mill the trunks and buck/split the tops. I should have several cord of pine ready for the fall SS........
 
Nice work. Is that your woods?
 
Got Tired of looking at my name! said:
Very nice pics zap it spurs the imagination!

Pete
Pete, thats a daggone long new username.......lol.....
 
Scotty Overkill, I will be posting some milling pictures, we have some nice topped of Hemlock on the list.

whatisup02, yes that is our woods, it was part of the woodlot we bought in 2007. It needed thinning many years ago, have some downed white pine that we will be milling that is further back.

Pete1983, lots of work in that area to make it look respectable.

zap
 
TreePointer said:
Mmm, smells good!


Just came back from some Italian food then a Division 1 hockey game,St.Lawrence University 3 Colgate University 2. Brought this pine split in from the back of the Rhino, looks like it's almost ready to burn. This was a smaller dead pine that I dropped today.



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A little wind and you won't have long to wait on that stuff Zap. You can probably burn some of that for Spring if you don't already have 16 other cords set aside LOL
 
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A little wind and you won't have long to wait on that stuff Zap. You can probably burn some of that for Spring if you don't already have 16 other cords set aside LOL

Here are two of three dead white pine I plan on dropping & splitting tomorrow, if my numbers are correct we should have close to four cord of shoulder season wood for fall.


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zapny said:
Locust Post said:
A little wind and you won't have long to wait on that stuff Zap. You can probably burn some of that for Spring if you don't already have 16 other cords set aside LOL

Here are two of three dead white pine I plan on dropping & splitting tomorrow, if my numbers are correct we should have close to four cord of shoulder season wood for fall.


zap

That first pic tree looks a little tricky. I wish I had a wood lot! Or should I say a wood bank!
 
Nice work zap. Having that winch can be helpful. I don't have one for the quad, but have a 9000# on the jeep I have used in dragging up our cliff out back. More soon and will post pics. Be well.
 
Oregon Bigfoot, everything went fine, that first tree was not that bad.

Backwoods, you're right on that. That tree we winched pulled the rhino back about one foot and thats with the chains on the front & back.


zap
 
Zap, cutting white pine really fills the air with a sweet smell and that is one good reason to cut it! lol Getting some of them down in a tight area like that can be interesting but usually not too much difficulty. Best part is you add to the wood pile.
 
zapny said:
Oregon Bigfoot, everything went fine, that first tree was not that bad.

Backwoods, you're right on that. That tree we winched pulled the rhino back about one foot and thats with the chains on the front & back.


zap

When we go wheelin' and another jeep is stuck bad in a gully, I gotta strap up to a tree while winching. Did you pre cut the tree a bit, or pull it down freestyle? I've already had the jeep stuck so bad and winched out, and almost pulled a tree down. After breaking out the snatch block, I was able to dbl my pulling power to 18000 lbs. So much fun! Be safe tomorrow bringing the others down.
 
backwoods, I used the open face notch on the tree we winched down.


zap
 
cozy heat, last year it was all bigtooth aspen for the shoulder season, this year we have hemlock,white pine with some bigtooth aspen. Just looking to use what we have.

zap
 
Zap were heading out tomorrow morning (I better get my a$$ to bed cause were leaving at 7:00am!!!) to cut some standing deads and deadfalls for use in the syrup evaporator. I used almost a weeks' worth of firewood in the evaporator out of my house wood.......I hate doing that! But I wanted to tell you I used some of that spruce that I cut down several weeks ago (I had split it around 2" to 3") and even though it isn't seasoned really good yet, man is it helping me get some good hot temps in that evaporator! I'll post some pics tomorrow of our work. I hope you do the same, love looking at yer pics! I have a thread over in the Perfect Picture forum of our evaporator and my sap buckets, check it out!
 
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