Work Done in 2018

[thewoodlands]

Even though it was hot out today, I wanted these two trees cleared from a trail on our property I cut on. After getting the two trees bucked up, I loaded the rounds up from the second tree (pic 1584) and that's when I notice one tire on the trailer was low on air..........I lightened the load (pic 1591) and headed home to drop the rounds off and fill the tire with air.

Once I got back to the rounds from the second tree, I loaded up the trailer (1592) and headed home but the Rhino quit in the middle of the trail. After getting a hold of my wife, she met me at the bottom of the hill which is a half mile walk one way. The battery (11 years old) was shot so it wouldn't take a charge so I took the walk again and then bought a new battery......once I got back it was another walk up the hill to install the new battery.

Have a happy July 4, I should sleep pretty good tonight.

 

[Lakeside]

I should sleep pretty good tonight.

Wow , your one determined firewood harvester. This is some of the hottest / humid weather I have experience here in the N/E. Relax now and have a cold beer or # .

 

[Ashful]

Nice! Did some trail clearing myself, in today’s heat. Managed to sink the tractor in the wetlands, and had to push myself out with the front end loader. It has been a record wet spring, here.



Now we’re relaxing by the pool, grabbing some dinner at the clubhouse, and then headed out for fireworks. Great day, in spite of the weather.

 

[thewoodlands]

Wow , your one determined firewood harvester. This is some of the hottest / humid weather I have experience here in the N/E. Relax now and have a cold beer or # .

The ride in the air conditioned car to get the new battery was very nice but the walk up the hill when we came back was tough.

My plan was to be out by noon.....so much for plans.

 

[thewoodlands]

Nice! Did some trail clearing myself, I today’s heat. Managed to sink the tractor in the wetlands, and had to push myself out with the front end loader. It has been a record wet spring, here.

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Now we’re relaxing by the pool, grabbing some dinner at the clubhouse, and then headed out for fireworks. Great day, in spite of the weather.

I'm glad you were able to get the tractor out, it's been very dry here so if you can send about three inches of rain, that would be nice.

We have a brook that runs through the property we own that I cut on so starting next week, we have some tree removal that will need to get done....that cool water coming from the mountains will feel nice.

 

[thewoodlands]

If this isn't ok in this thread, please move it with a thread title of Boating Season 2018.

After yesterdays walk up and down the hills, we hit Carry Falls Reservoir today with the water down 10-12 feet which is getting close to fall levels.

The last time we went up there, all you could see in picture 1594 was the small tree.

 

[thewoodlands]

The small Sugar Maple and Cherry are from the area the garage will be built, it's about 86 today so if I go out again, it will be later.

 

[thewoodlands]

The first two pictures are the same load, there's some Cherry and Ash and the second picture is all Cherry, nothing really big but it all adds up.

 

[thewoodlands]

This is an old picture of a hemlock we took out of the brook after a storm, hopefully this week we'll take another hemlock out. I'll have the new pictures when we do it. The loss of this hemlock was caused by the ice this spring.

Our water levels here are late August levels (real,real low) so getting it out will be easier because of that.

 

[thewoodlands]

We finally removed the hemlock, two small ash and one small beech from the brook today. The wife was on the rhino and the neighbors were there too, we pulled everything out from our neighbors side. We pulled the hemlock out at a certain length and then bucked it up at 16 inches.

The first three pictures are of the ice that caused the hemlock to come down this past winter, picture 1629 is the hemlock pictured from the bank on our neighbors side and 1630 is after we hauled everything out of the brook.

Our neighbor used her bota to haul away all the branches and we gave her all the wood.

 

[trguitar]

Beautiful woods zap! Love the photos. I spent a lot of summers in the Adirondacks when I was younger. Mostly around Lake Champlain, but we did a lot of backpacking trips including Mt. Marcy. Beautiful area...

 

[thewoodlands]

Beautiful woods zap! Love the photos. I spent a lot of summers in the Adirondacks when I was younger. Mostly around Lake Champlain, but we did a lot of backpacking trips including Mt. Marcy. Beautiful area...

Thanks @trguitar , we're lucky that we were able to get that land.

Both Lake Champlain and the Lake Placid area are very nice areas, plenty of things you can do.

 

[xman23]

I thought we had the same Ohio steel trailer, but I see yours is not flat across the bottom like mine. Mine has 8" hard sidewall balloon tires. They can have no air in them and you won't know it until your loading in the woods. Don't ask how I know. Nice light duty trailer for an ATV.

 

[thewoodlands]

I thought we had the same Ohio steel trailer, but I see yours is not flat across the bottom like mine. Mine has 8" hard sidewall balloon tires. They can have no air in them and you won't know it until your loading in the woods. Don't ask how I know. Nice light duty trailer for an ATV.

Our trailer came from a company that's in Canada, it's made by Rescraft Plastic and it's been a good trailer.

I also found out the trailer tires look good without any air in them until you load it up with wood.........twice!

 

[Ashful]

Wow, old thread. I am loving my latest trailer or moving mulch and firewood:

 

[thewoodlands]

Wow, old thread. I am loving my latest trailer or moving mulch and firewood:

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Nice trailer @Ashful , we have a smaller one like that without the hydraulics. I don't use it much anymore since we have the other trailer, if we have a bunch of wood to haul out of the woods we use the truck with the utility trailer.

 

[Ashful]

I used to build a wood crib from pallets on a covered patio outside my basement door, and use a small Ohio Steel single-axle trailer behind my tractor to haul wood the 300 feet from my wood lot to the house, and re-stack it in that crib. Four trips across the sometimes snowy, sometimes soggy lawn, would get me a cord of wood which I’d do every second or third week. At the end of the season, I’d relocate that wood crib to my wood lot, where it would replace one of my rotting cribs down there.

I never gave any thought to doing it another way, until last fall, when I didn’t have a chance to build a new crib for the patio. I just filled that little Ohio Steel trailer, and parked it on the patio, when a lightbulb went off. If I had a trailer that could hold a full cord, I could just fill it and park it, so I bought this one without the hydraulic dump function. It cut down my wood-moving time from a few hours per cord to maybe 30 - 40 minutes for a full cord.

Then, this spring I put in another 1/4 acre garden on our rear property line, roughly 300 feet long and varying 30 - 40 feet deep. That meant increasing my usual 40 yard mulch purchase up to about 110 yards, for the initial 3” depth, to start this new garden. That was enough to justify adding the hydraulic dump function to this trailer. I was able to move and spread about 50 - 60 yards per day, using this dump trailer and my front end loader, spreading it all by hand with a garden rake.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today I decided it was time to check some trails on our property I cut on, a hemlock came down taking down a small red maple branch with it. I loaded up the smaller red maple first and the bigger rounds of hemlock are on top, everything is home in the split piles.

We still have some red maple down from this so I'll get that another day, attached are some pictures.

 

[thewoodlands]

Since the tractor was in for its 500 hour checkup, I decided to level off the area under the boards and then stack 0.62 of a cord or two face cord.

The wood I stacked had been up for 3 or 4 years until late last winter when it went over so we'll be burning the wood I get stacked in the area pictured. The stacks have yellow birch,beech,sugar maple,soft maple, ironwood and cherry in them.

 

[thewoodlands]

I started another row of seasoned firewood for this winter, we have beech,yellow birch,sugar maple and soft maple in this mix which I'll finish tomorrow. The row will be just over four feet high by sixteen feet long.

 

[thewoodlands]

I finished up the little that was left in this stack, we'll get the covers on this wood before the the middle of August.

 

[Ashful]

Might want to string a wire across the tops of those fence stakes. You can pick up cheap fence wire, or even suspended ceiling grid wire, for the job.

 

[thewoodlands]

Might want to string a wire across the tops of those fence stakes. You can pick up cheap fence wire, or even suspended ceiling grid wire, for the job.

Thanks for the idea @Ashful but it will be burned this year so it won't need it.

 

[thewoodlands]

I sharpened some chains on the grinder and then cleared a small maple that was across a walking trail, some rounds still have some heat in them.

The cherry came down from a windstorm a good month ago so I cleared that from a trail the rhino and tractor travel, not much wood but the trails are cleared.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today I covered just over three cord of wood that we'll use this winter. They were calling for rain so before any of the sand got wet, I filled two big plastic garbage cans with sand for this winter for use on the driveway and have another six five gallon pails full of sand in the garage too.

We use the sand closer to the house and ashes further away so we'll have plenty of sand.