Work Done In 2020

[SpaceBus]

We took down one tree and limbed it yesterday before noon. Today it's two more. Going to get some pics once we go back outside and cut the logs to mill length and break down the rest of it. The plan is to start a garden where these trees were standing and use the limbs and unusable parts to form the soil since there isn't much of any topsoil here.

 

[SpaceBus]

The photo with the red outline is from last summer and shows the three trees we felled. The photo with the saw is the largest tree I've felled at 19.5" at the stump, about 17" DBH. I took the bottom 18-ish feet from each stem and set them aside for later. The rest I bucked into rounds to split later.

 

[kennyp2339]

Got her done, ready for the wind @heavy hammer

 

[thewoodlands]

I did move some stuff out of the woods to a safer area, the bucket and forks. In the first picture I dropped the plow (it's back on) and then moved everything along with the splitter.

We also put in two smaller loads of pine and some chitty hardwood for at night, we had 28 this morning.

I cleaned the 310 along with the 311, I also fired up the 660 with the 25 inch bar with chain ready if needed. I also started up the generator so we should be set.

 

[sweedish]

Unrelated note, I made a hand tool woodworking bench out of a white pine i had taken to a sawyer from my sister and brother in laws house.
I used the offcuts and planer shaving as fuel.

 

[SpaceBus]

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Unrelated note, I made a hand tool woodworking bench out of a white pine i had taken to a sawyer from my sister and brother in laws house.
I used the offcuts and planer shaving as fuel.

Whoever milled the lumber cares. I see a lot of quarter and rift sawn pieces!

 

[heavy hammer]

I just got home fro working storm Kennyp2339. That wind was relentless today. We didn't get hit to hard today the last two weeks we have had some pretty good winds so this blow through was not a bad one.

 

[sweedish]

Whoever milled the lumber cares. I see a lot of quarter and rift sawn pieces!

I was there milling with the sawyer, I didn’t want any heartwood at all in the bench since it usually cracks.

 

[sweedish]

I was there milling with the sawyer, I didn’t want any heartwood at all in the bench since it usually cracks.

also I wanted a knot free top

 

[kennyp2339]

I just got home fro working storm Kennyp2339. That wind was relentless today. We didn't get hit to hard today the last two weeks we have had some pretty good winds so this blow through was not a bad one.

We had some strong winds till about noon time, then it fizzled out, took out about 14k of people here, worked a 16 and prob another 8 today, we picked up all our big stuff, now is the nitty gritty time consuming stuff. Up where I live we got some good 50 mph gusts off the mountain, lots of leaners came down from Decembers snowstorm, so it was a like mini round II

 

[SpaceBus]

I know the linemen were busy here. Several thousand homes went without power for 12+ hours here in Maine.

 

[EODMSgt]

The scrounge continues...made five trips yesterday, mostly dead red oak but also a standing dead ash and some decent birch as well. Great day to be in the woods.

 

[SpaceBus]

I'll have to post some more photos today. We've almost finished mulching up all the limbs and tops of those trees we felled. Got a few more piles of to shred and then we will be placing stones for a retaining wall.

 

[SpaceBus]

Or maybe not, I just checked the weather and it's not looking good for today... You can't plan anything around here!

 

[Gearhead660]

Or maybe not, I just checked the weather and it's not looking good for today... You can't plan anything around here!

Sounds like WI...if you dont like the weather, wait 5 minutes. We have had a 4 seasons in a week.

 

[JimBear]

Weather guessers are predicting 4”-6” of snow for us across Southern IA & Northern MO tomorrow afternoon/evening.

 

[SpaceBus]

I ordered a Sawmill, it should be here in three weeks

 

[thewoodlands]

After the not so bad winds a few days ago, I decided that the trails would get checked, not a thing down on the trails I checked.

I went back to this Maple (I'm thinking Sugar) that the top was blown out of last year, about seven rounds weren't worth a chit. I split everything that was good and then stacked it with some Ash, I have some smaller rounds of Ash in the woods that I'll finish off the stack with.

 

[EODMSgt]

Out again early this morning and scrounged a decent red oak. Nice and cool, no bugs, just had to wade in the snow melt-off to cut the rounds. Went back out later and found a white birch that was starting to go so that came down. Had to drop a double beech to get to it so ended up with three trees about 100 feet up the slope. Got some of the sections down the slope by hand but was able to use a pully system and a long rope and skid the rest out using the ATV (I had cut the trees into 48" or 64" sections. It always amazes me how small the pile looks once it's all together. Sure looks like a lot more when the trees are standing and when they first come down. I'll head back out hopefully tomorrow and buck the rounds and bring them home.

 

[thewoodlands]

I finally felled a bunch of Ash today, five trees. The first was the biggest and the rest will be nice to work with. I did finish bucking up the first one.

 

[thewoodlands]

I had four Ash down from yesterday, I bucked up three today and rolled them down the hill. Not all rounds are in the pictures, after I get my next 16 foot area leveled off I'll start s & s.

 

[thewoodlands]

A porcupine did this years ago and the last two or three years it didn't have any leaves so I'll give my knees a break from working on the side of a hill and get this tomorrow if it doesn't rain.

 

[thewoodlands]

I had planned to fell this down the trail I came up on so I felled two Ironwood in the way but after giving the Beech another look it had a natural lean to the west so that's where I felled it.

Pictures 0208 & 09 are the Beech I felled, 0210 & 0211 is another Beech I noticed before I was leaving that will come down, 0213 is the Ironwood, 0214 & 15 are some of the Beech rounds and the last three are coming down from up top where I was cutting.

 

[SpaceBus]

I need to take some pics of the work I did today and post what the last week has been. Been busy with the tractor and saws!

 

[SpaceBus]

I snapped a few pics with my cell while I took the dogs out this morning