Work Done 2025

[shortys7777]

Mile from the house. It was all bucked up and in a pile. Home owner and his son even helped me load. I was out of there in 20 minutes. Full truck bed load behind me. I was sagging on the slow ride home. 95% black birch. Smells like winter fresh gum. Time to split and stacked.

 

[Turbo89]

Mile from the house. It was all bucked up and in a pile. Home owner and his son even helped me load. I was out of there in 20 minutes. Full truck bed load behind me. I was sagging on the slow ride home. 95% black birch. Smells like winter fresh gum. Time to split and stacked. View attachment 338605

Great score!!

 

[Dieselhead]

Excellent wood too!

 

[thewoodlands]

I took a 400 grit block sander to the chair today and then wiped it down with a micro fiber towel. I had some super fine steel wool that I used on the chair too, I'm done with it.

Picture 1601 is from today after I was finished, in the first picture, on the left is back a few days or more, on the right is from today.

We had some pine left from when we switched over to hardwood in the fall so we brought that in today.

 

[Turbo89]

Got another truck load of maple today, with a few large pieces of hickory mixed in.

I’m getting pretty backed up for splitting, probably 2-3 cords of un split maple and ash, with some another half cord or so of hemlock / poplar…. Should be able to get another cord or 2 of maple logs this week; then I’ll start splitting.

 

[qwee]

I'm working on splitting a trailer load of wet poplar right off of the trailer. I let the wood sit for a couple of weeks out in public before loading it and naturally about 20 quarters went missing - oh well I just cut up some more. The older guy who was helping himself came out there when I was loading and pretended to be doing other work (farm setting).

I'm trying out my new setup for splitting off the trailer - table, hatchet, and backed right up to the splitter. I would like to get a small section of roller conveyer to roll the 100 lb wet chunks right to the splitter. And maybe hook up a boat trailer manual crank to pull the rounds onto the trailer (I'm getting older) up the conveyer roller ramp

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[Toasty-Yote]

My childhood climbing tree that I have known for over 40 years dropped a big chunk. It has four huge stems that come out of the ground and one of them blew over so I figured it is only fitting that I take it home to my grown-up home and give it one last use. I started towards the top part and am working my way closer to the stump so these rounds will get yet bigger. My Impreza is surprisingly good at this but I certainly avoid potholes on the way home. Had a blast with my Fiskars 8lb with over half of the big rounds popping in half on the first strike. Gotta love black cherry for that.

 

[Stelcom66]

... My Impreza is surprisingly good at this but I certainly avoid potholes on the way home....

Wow I was going to ask what kind of vehicle! That's cool that the Impreza handled and fit all that. While I didn't have a truck I hauled quite a bit in my former 2002 Forester. Then got a 6' trailer for it. Never really mastered backing that up. When empty and backing I'd sometimes just pick it up and swing it over as needed.

 

[Stelcom66]

Finished cutting a neighbor's tree that fell a while ago. I'm hoping it's ash as I've found that usually splits very easily.

 

[NickW]

Then got a 6' trailer for it. Never really mastered backing that up. When empty and backing I'd sometimes just pick it up and swing it over as needed.

Don't feel bad about struggling backing a short trailer. They are tough. It's all about wheel base ratio. The shorter the vehicle wheel base and longer the trailer wheel base the easier it gets.

Long trailers on my quad cab 8' bed are fine, but my 10' utility trailer sucks.

 

[Stelcom66]

Don't feel bad about struggling backing a short trailer. They are tough...

I've heard that! Ironically, the longer trailers are easier.

One of the things I like about a trailer is the height and a built in ramp. My old Z71 Chevy seems to be a bit higher than the base 4WD model, being in my 60s it can be a bit tough loading wood in. A few weeks ago I managed to get a dryer up there though. That would have been easier with a trailer.

 

[Turbo89]

Just split about 1-1/3 cords of ash, and about half a cord of pine. Stacked the ash, gave most of the pine away for my buddy’s camp wood.

 

[MRD1985]

Been done burning for over a month. Decided to clean the chimney today. First picture of debris on the bottom is just what was in the firebox. Second picture is the chimney (basically nothing). Impressed with how clean this stove burns. Took out w everything and cleaned the firebox thoroughly . At some point I’ll pull the blower out and clean it out with some compressed air but not today.

about 3 cords maybe slightly more went through this stove this past season

 

[MRD1985]

Last set

 

[Gearhead660]

Another good morning in the woods. Load of oak,elm and hickory.

 

[clancey]

Yea--Q---that looks like a whole bunch of work and messy too--I am also looking for a conveyor type of roller system to go to my bird loft from my truck so that I can unload seed by myself--50 pound bags so good luck on finding something and it would sure make it easier for us who are getting older to keep able to do our own work without help as long as possible --with not being toooo drastic here,,,lol...Good luck on finding something and let us know how your research turns out--I am looking too--so there are two of us now...Gosh this would be a good selling point...old clancey.

 

[NickW]

Saw crapped out Tuesday so I took it in for service. Was told today it's not worth fixing with a blown seal and bearing going out....

Spent the day pulling small tree's out with the Dodge diesel for the pole shed site. Burning brush now seeing as the fire danger level is down again finally.

 

[jblnut]

We finished up planting a few weeks ago. 450 acres of soybeans and around 620 acres of corn. Heck yeah ! Another planting season in the books.

 

[NickW]

Got a new saw yesterday - Husky Rancher 450. Wanted something comparable that could use the bar & chains from the 353. Css'd a little over half a cord this morning with the missus. Quite happy so far.

This is the wife running the splitter.

 

[Jsjac1]

I finished filling the wood shed.
Now I have started to fill the lean-to on the side of the wood shed. I stacked about two cords today so far

I hope to get it all stacked and the mess cleaned up this weekend.
I also took the snow blower off the tractor and put on my stump grinder. I ground a Shag Bark Hickory stump today. It was to close to my woods road.
That was the hardest stump I have ground so far

 

[Jsjac1]

I finished filling the wood shed.
Now I have started to fill the lean-to on the side of the wood shed. I stacked about two cords today so farView attachment 338916

View attachment 338917
I hope to get it all stacked and the mess cleaned up this weekend.
I also took the snow blower off the tractor and put on my stump grinder. I ground a Shag Bark Hickory stump today. It was to close to my woods road.
That was the hardest stump I have ground so far

I stacked a row before Church this morning

Hopefully finish the end of it this afternoon.

 

[thewoodlands]

Since it stopped raining, I picked up branches and sticks from the trails around the house. After that was done I hooked up the trail mower and I mowed it twice, it was my first time mowing the trails this year so it was up there pretty good.

 

[Jsjac1]

I finished filling the wood shed.
Now I have started to fill the lean-to on the side of the wood shed. I stacked about two cords today so farView attachment 338916

View attachment 338917
I hope to get it all stacked and the mess cleaned up this weekend.
I also took the snow blower off the tractor and put on my stump grinder. I ground a Shag Bark Hickory stump today. It was to close to my woods road.
That was the hardest stump I have ground so far

I stacked a row before Church this morning View attachment 338930
Hopefully finish the end of it this afternoon.

 

[Pinesmoke]

A couple hours of weed beating and I'm covered in slime from who knows what all. Time for a shower.

 

[thewoodlands]

I cleaned up a saw and then did some weed eating, the utility trailer is free. I did plant some leftover Marigolds in some pots we have, we'll see how long they last before the deer get them.