Work Done 2024

[Pinesmoke]

Kambiobi
Beautiful snow shot, reminds me of where we moved from.
I'm am sure you can look out onto that and say "it's COLD" and know you are right.

North Island? Isn't that where I have seen all the pics of 1.5m snow scenes?

 

[thewoodlands]

The warm stretch finally left so we started putting in more shoulder season wood. After putting in a few loads of pine today, I ran the gas out of the push mowers and the trail mower today, the battery for the trail mower is inside.

Hopefully tomorrow, I'll start cutting some pine that's down with the help of the tractor with the forks.

 

[NickW]

Cut up the ash and mulberry that needed it this morning. Randomly decided to check mulberry in the BTU charts because I haven't had it in any quantity and discovered it should go with my "premiums" and not the everyday hardwoods.

So I split it all up and put the mulberry with the honey locust I did last week and put the ash on the everyday hardwoods stack. Ended up with a little over 1/4 cord of mulberry and a little under 1/4 cord ash making that total trip 1 cord between the ash, mulberry and honey locust. I currently have nearly as much premium hardwood css as everyday hardwood in the outside stacks. Definitely need more mid grade.

 

[MRD1985]

Yard work. And lots of it today. This time of year I get killed with leaves. I finally decided to invest in a big backpack blower to replace my husqvarna 125bv handheld. Went with a Stihl BR800X. Couldn’t be happier. Cut my time to a 1/4 of what it took me with the old one. Bagged 13 bags of leaves yesterday after blowing the entire front and backyard, and bagged 87 bags today. Needless to say I am tapped. Probably another 30 bags worth on the ground, but ran out of bags. Still have 2 oaks and 3 Norway maples that have their leaves. So more to come.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Yard work. And lots of it today. This time of year I get killed with leaves. I finally decided to invest in a big backpack blower to replace my husqvarna 125bv handheld. Went with a Stihl BR800X. Couldn’t be happier. Cut my time to a 1/4 of what it took me with the old one. Bagged 13 bags of leaves yesterday after blowing the entire front and backyard, and bagged 87 bags today. Needless to say I am tapped. Probably another 30 bags worth on the ground, but ran out of bags. Still have 2 oaks and 3 Norway maples that have their leaves. So more to come.

I have that blower coming into my dealer next week. Glad it hit your mark, the specs looked good. I don't need to collect leaves to get rid of as I need to clear ditches and blow them back into the woods. It looked like it would do the job.

 

[MRD1985]

I have that blower coming into my dealer next week. Glad it hit your mark, the specs looked good. I don't need to collect leaves to get rid of as I need to clear ditches and blow them back into the woods. It looked like it would do the job.

It will with ease. It will pick up steel Tonka toys and blow them. Blows pine needles out of long grass no problem too. comfort is 10/10 too.

 

[NickW]

Stupid leaves... I sweep with the lawn tractor and sweeper. Done it 3 times so far and have cleaned the gutters like 6 times this fall, but I'm close to done. Just a few left on the silver maples.

 

[all night moe]

I want that backpack blower too. Been on my wish list for sometime now.

Last year I brought home about 60 leaf bags...pre filled. Some folk use hay bails to insulate crawl space foundations. I figured the bags are free. 8ft truck bed holds 22 bags. I closed the tops and put them in upside down. Lined them around the house and tarped them. There still there now, doing their job. I only did the north and west walls to break the wind.

Today I removed a HUGE silver maple. 5'dia at the base. Home owner paid to have all the leaders removed and leave the 15' of base standing. Roughly where all the unions joined. 5.5hrs with the crane. Sprawling canopy, and tight landing zone. Wire for the cranes computer got ripped out after the second pick. Left the operator with no way to know how much pre tension he had on the slings, or how much weight we were picking. He's to young to know how to do it by feel. The old school operators knew how to do it that way. Judge from the crane's reactions. I had a couple nerve racking picks just because of how the tree grew. My boy did good though in the crane.
Told the foreman I didn't want a stick of it. Hour and a half, one way commute and just being soft maple I passed on it. Besides, I needed to grab pallets on the way home. So that's my work done today. I grabbed pallets .... LOL.

 

[all night moe]

Oh .... add on:

FWIW, hay bails have an R value of 40. There was actually a study done on that. Old time home renovator told me about it.

 

[thewoodlands]

Instead of cutting some pine, I stacked what was in a non stacking area, maybe a face cord out of it.

 

[NickW]

Another load from the tree service pasture. Mostly honey locust a bit of ash. Broke one of the side windows on my cap dang it all... Split and stacked what was in the trailer, about 1/2 cord. Photo of the load apparently didn't save.

 

[MRD1985]

Another load from the tree service pasture. Mostly honey locust a bit of ash. Broke one of the side windows on my cap dang it all... Split and stacked what was in the trailer, about 1/2 cord. Photo of the load apparently didn't save.

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That really sucks man sorry to hear that! I get nervous sometimes throwing wood into the back of mine for the same reason!😅

 

[beardley]

Snagged a nice little load of sugar maple today.

 

[NickW]

That really sucks man sorry to hear that! I get nervous sometimes throwing wood into the back of mine for the same reason!😅

What really sucked is it was a small chunk and not a real hard hit. Just must have been the right angle in the right spot...😭

 

[thewoodlands]

I used the back saver today, picture 4916 is the 4540 with a pine log, 4917 are the rounds, 4918, 4919 & 4920 are pictures of some white birch, picture 4922 is some cherry that was still attached to the trunk that I pulled off and then bucked up, most of the cherry rounds are good with about 4 bad smaller rounds.

 

[Dieselhead]

I used the back saver today, picture 4916 is the 4540 with a pine log, 4917 are the rounds, 4918, 4919 & 4920 are pictures of some white birch, picture 4922 is some cherry that was still attached to the trunk that I pulled off and then bucked up, most of the cherry rounds are good with about 4 bad smaller rounds.

I am in favor of more hydraulics as age goes up.

 

[clancey]

looks nice and neat wl...N sorry about that window --s--- happens...I think you just was in a hurry to get the job done--slow down a bit...Pictures are pretty everyone and makes me think that I am in a forest...lol....clancey

 

[Garbanzo62]

Yard work. And lots of it today. This time of year I get killed with leaves. I finally decided to invest in a big backpack blower to replace my husqvarna 125bv handheld. Went with a Stihl BR800X. Couldn’t be happier. Cut my time to a 1/4 of what it took me with the old one. Bagged 13 bags of leaves yesterday after blowing the entire front and backyard, and bagged 87 bags today. Needless to say I am tapped. Probably another 30 bags worth on the ground, but ran out of bags. Still have 2 oaks and 3 Norway maples that have their leaves. So more to come.

I picked up the same blower a few weeks ago. Stihl was having a promo. Out the door with a pack of stihl oil to extend the warranty for $650. It cuts down my time drastically too and it is pretty damn quite for a gas blower.

 

[heavy hammer]

I ended up with 10 truck loads of locust from a neighbor just down the road from storms this past summer. Plenty of wood for 26,27. Temps here have been pretty mild we haven't had a fire yet. It's almost mid november with temps still in the 60's most days. Very dry as well has been nice to get things done outside.

 

[Garbanzo62]

Dropped a dead standing ash from the swamp. It has been really dry so I figured do what I can in the wetlands before I am standing in ankle deep muck. Dropped and bucked on Sat, Hauled out on Sunday. Will split later this week. I can see a lot of Punk but there is good heartwood too. I would drop more but I am running out of places to stack it. There is a lot more in there, just wondering if it is worth the effort with the amount of punkiness on each round.

 

[heavy hammer]

I ended up taking a few days off from work to get it all to the house and then getting it all stacked in the wood area.

 

[MRD1985]

I picked up the same blower a few weeks ago. Stihl was having a promo. Out the door with a pack of stihl oil to extend the warranty for $650. It cuts down my time drastically too and it is pretty damn quite for a gas blower.

The one I got was on sale too for 599. Not bad at all in my opinion. I still wear ear protection though I tried it without it and it does make your ears ring after a bit haha. I would use the echo red armor oil. I used the Stihl platinum oil for a while in other stuff and wasn’t thrilled for the price of it. The echo oil is great In the blower and my ms261 saw. I also mix it at slightly heavier than 50:1, about 45:1 mixed with shell 93 fuel.

 

[Wisco Shepherd]

I've gone to mulching my leaves with the mower. Less hassle and my grass loves all the organic matter.

 

[NickW]

Just finished css'ing on the load from Saturday when I broke the truck window and got a text from the tree service that occasionally drops a load of mixed shoulder season wood with some decent stuff and he's bringing a trailer load. No idea what or how much.

 

[shortys7777]

Up at the lake house this weekend. I took care of a big pine that came down in a storm last year. I'll split it all next spring when we bring the log splitter up.