Work Done 2025

[Dieselhead]

Stacked the last of the spruce I had on hand today

Still have about a dozen splits on the ground frozen in place. I got most unstuck with the pike pole but some wouldn’t give

 

[MRD1985]

Moved some more wood to the backyard and stacked it. Redistributed the mulberry I have to other piles to free up the big plastic pallet to stack the new stuff on. I’d say I have one more pallet worth to stack or so. Plus a few more big rounds to cut up with the saw. I’ll be either right at where I was stock wise at the start of winter, or a bit more ahead.

The new wood sopping wet with water. Very heavy and water logged. Going to leave it uncovered until early next week.

 

[Pinesmoke]

So, yesterday continued the cleanup in front of the house. Cut dead fall to get ready for burn pile when it gets out of a red flag warning, moved firewood and flush cut stumps. It's close short of some dirt work. A friend has a 4wd loader that should do the trick. I carried a shove in yesterday, yeah right F that LOL.

This morning I wanted to get that big trunk out before the spring wet.

Now all I have to do is load it out 🥺

 

[Pinesmoke]

Buy one 😘 unless you really like bending over.

I shouldn't have brought the wife down, she wants quartz rocks, ugg.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Remember that pile of trees along the driveway I just cleared?

It was the baby.........

 

[heavy hammer]

Just filled the garage back up temps this weekend are going to be cold. This past week was not bad temp wise just back to mud now. Like most here I have been burning through a lot of wood with these cold temps so keeping the garage filled has been the job of lately.

 

[NickW]

Spent the afternoon burning brush from some of the tornado damage back in June here in the Northwoods. Stupid Internet company didn't get it installed. Talk about beurocratic idiots. Hoping they can get it done before the closing on the house or my wife is going to be staying with family down there until we're functioning up here. So much for working from up here Monday to test the system speeds...

 

[Pinesmoke]

I feel you on the internet Co. 4 years ago I started chasing mine, fiber at the end of the road less than a half mile down. This week they started pulling underground tube and I asked the crew and they said it's the fiber. I told them they have been jerking me around for 4 years and got starlink and it rocks. He said they have some great deals for hookup coming. I said unless they give me 4 years free for the time I spent being jerked around by them I'll stay with starlink. I wish I got a picture of the look on his face.

 

[thewoodlands]

Another batch of soup was made today since we have some colder temps coming in, that should get us through the short cold snap we'll get.

I didn't get any wood in but since the warmer weather was here earlier in the week, we've been burning birch so the beech and the ironwood we have inside should get us through this short stretch of cold weather.

About the only other chit I did today was hand sand some areas outside that had some ice.

 

[stoveliker]

I.have been spitting big oak. Just slowly working my way through the rounds.

I gave Optimum (who had a monopoly on the telephone poles here,. because they, ahem, "lobbied" the town for that years ago, leading to continuous price increases) the finger the moment Verizon had 5 G internet here. They had lied to me so often about what they could do (and I have proof of that), that I told them I don't do business with dishonest companies, so they could pound sand.

I can see the Verizon tower from my son's bedroom, speed is great. His gaming too (so latency not a problem), and I pay a third of Optimum per month, fixed for 3 years. They came begging for the first few months even matching the price.

 

[MRD1985]

I.have been spitting big oak. Just slowly working my way through the rounds.

I gave Optimum (who had a monopoly on the telephone poles here,. because they, ahem, "lobbied" the town for that years ago, leading to continuous price increases) the finger the moment Verizon had 5 G internet here. They had lied to me so often about what they could do (and I have proof of that), that I told them I don't do business with dishonest companies, so they could pound sand.

I can see the Verizon tower from my son's bedroom, speed is great. His gaming too (so latency not a problem), and I pay a third of Optimum per month, fixed for 3 years. They came begging for the first few months even matching the price.

Verizon had one gig Internet on special here a few years ago. $65/month guaranteed for 10 years. Everything included. That’s what we have. No cable in our house. Just streaming

 

[clancey]

You people are working fools while that wl cooks soup--I been a working fool too for I bent down to plug a plug in and grabbed on to a bookcase to get leverage to get up off the floor and the whole bookcase came down on top of me and it had things like creamers and sugar bowls and glass thing of the like that "one day" I was going to pack it up and give to the Arc here--got out of that job. I did not get hurt only a small cut on the forehead the spot where one gets ashes--and boy did it bleed but it is just fine now.. My work was cleaning up all the glass---terrible job that is...Pine s--you better get your wife some quartz and I love quartz too. mdr--your doing too too much--rest a bit...Stovel. I did not build a fire yet but I wonder this question---I have a small -medium basket full of receipts and when I light my stove can I burn these in the stove? For the rest of you hh and nw--The weather is going to get real bad--rain and wind on about this Tuesday so snuggle in and I feel the same way about the internet companies a bunch of bureacrats -spelling here wrong..Oh Well--lazy I am...I have had my disagreements with them too and Oh brother some of them do not know what they are doing--ugh...Be good everybody and stay cool and relax in the bad bad weather coming and have some hot choc. and marshmallows "by the fire" with your love ones--clancey

 

[Gearhead660]

With the warm temps, all the snow melted and the woods is kinda muddy. Decided to take the wheeler out and just stack by the trails to grab later with the truck. Just put new full chisel chain on the 290. Cuts like a hot knife through butter.

 

[GG Woody]

Put winter away.

Pulled some spring out.

 

[Turbo89]

We got a re-freeze today, so I wheelbarrowed some pre-cut logs to my wood stack, chopped and stacked them. Probably about 1/2 a cord or so.

Also cleaned out the ash from the living room fireplace, and now I’m cleaning up my shop from the various projects that I have going on, while listening to the radio, with the wood stove cooking.

 

[NickW]

Back home, house is chilly, 3/4 load of ash and shoulder season wood in (after cleaning it out).

 

[stoveliker]

I split about a cord of oak and cherry today. I had forgotten how stringy the sapwood of cherry is. "Prepare" the place with the x-27, then the maul and sledge. Once it was loose I still had to cut cross crossing strings of sapwood fibers.
That was a 7 ft log of 24" dia or so.

Three more 30" dia red oak "rounds" and then it's normal rounds (18" or so max). And uglies and shorties for the neighbors.

They already got about a cord worth of stuff and there's about a cord more to go for them.

 

[MRD1985]

Finished splitting, moving and stacking the rest of the wood. Cleaned up the area for the most part. I’ll cover everything up before the rains on Wednesday.

 

[MRD1985]

Nice day for a soup @thewoodlands

 

[all night moe]

They already got about a cord worth of stuff and there's about a cord more to go for them.

Very good of you, my friend.

 

[stoveliker]

Nah, I'm glad to get rid of unstackable uglies and shorties.
They pile them (... I tried educating them but no luck). They happy and me happy.

 

[all night moe]

Today, was a 3 tree job with no crane access. 2 had to be climbed to set pull ropes, in a sugar maple and a white pine. A 3rd, also a white pine, I delimbed to about 2/3rds of total height. Set the rope and rappelled down to about half. Pulled that top in the yard from there. Had a 2nd rope with me to tie into the remaining spar. Dropped the spar. That was the 2nd tree on the ground. 1st was the sugar. Took off some lower branches before pulling it over. The last was the or pull over. It was a codominant at about 5' up. Climbed to 3/4 height again to set the rope. Trimmed off some offending branches that would have hit some other trees.

All pulls were done with a mini wheel loader. A popular piece of machinery amongst arborists. The last pull went south in a bad way. It was on target then veered to the left, landing on a small chicken wire garden fence. It also took off 3 small branches off of 2 pear trees. Before it did that, a couple branches tagged, the gutter and scuffed 2 shingles on the house. The loader couldn't keep up with the pull. OP was worried about running out of room with the fence behind him. You could see the tracks curve to gain ground. This is where the rope slacked. At the same time, I didn't cut the hinge wood fast enough either for the limp pull. I took the blame. It was my decision to pull it over, and I cut it loose.

First time I've ever damaged anything. The sugar maple had its lower limbs removed to protect some smaller trees that the HO wanted to keep. Those trees are the same reason I wanted to pull over that last pine whole. I didn't want to drop 2 tops on top of them. The protected trees were near the base and to the right. Opposite the way it ended up falling.

Company owner took 10% off the bill. Only $300. I told him to take it out of my pay. He refuses to. Don't know why the HO only wanted 10%. There's about a 1k of labor and material. Gutter alone is seamless and 50-60' long.

On a positive note, I brought home a truck load of sugar maple, and those protected trees were never harmed.

 

[vatmark]

Work for today: Cleaned up the stove for the 2nd time after having to heat cure the stove cement on new gasket. And the kicker-the new gasket didn't really fix the issue. It help the handle side of the door but the glass on the hinge side of the door still gets a brown patch.

 

[thewoodlands]

Nice day for a soup @thewoodlands

Yes it was, I did make some on Friday or Saturday morning. I think a stew is up next but we'll wait until after all the rain stops (it starts this afternoon) I'll be loading up the 3 point sander with 4 bags of sand pretty soon so it's ready for tomorrow morning, the driveway will be like a skating rink.

I'll take the plow off the tractor too, the bucket does a better job of scraping off the slush/ice once everything softens up.

Your soup looks very good, how was it.

 

[MRD1985]

Yes it was, I did make some on Friday or Saturday morning. I think a stew is up next but we'll wait until after all the rain stops (it starts this afternoon) I'll be loading up the 3 point sander with 4 bags of sand pretty soon so it's ready for tomorrow morning, the driveway will be like a skating rink.

I'll take the plow off the tractor too, the bucket does a better job of scraping off the slush/ice once everything softens up.

Your soup looks very good, how was it.

Wife and I loved it! One of my specialties. Creamy tomato soup with basil, onion, garlic, allspice, salt and pepper. Tomatoes are plum tomatoes. The base is the juice from the tomatoes and chicken stock. Heavy whipping cream to make it nice and creamy. Companied by grilled cheese on sourdough bread.