Work Done 2025

[thewoodlands]

I put 240 pounds of sand in the 3 point sander, after I put the sand in, I moved a bunch of snow from certain areas with the FEL down in the woods but once it started raining, I called it a day.

 

[vatmark]

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.

That sounds delicious. We made bagel sandwiches. Rye bagel with Kinders Baja taco sauce, lettuce, thinly sliced pork tenderloin, homemade guacamole and homemade pickled red onion.

 

[MRD1985]

Replace a couple of tarps and covered up all the wood before the rains tomorrow night

 

[all night moe]

Today was a crane day of 15 trees. 2 white pine, 10 honey locusts, and 3 red pine. They were all single picks with the 1st being a locust. The heaviest of the day coming in at 10k lbs. We were not expecting it to be that heavy. All the picks were done close to the crane. We had 5 total set ups for the crane.

Job was for the owner of the building used by CSX. All of the trees were around 3 sides of the building, except the 3 red pine. Last pick was a very dead locust at the rear corner of building. I had just hooked up the slings and rappelled to the ground. Guy rolls up and motions me to come over. He asks who I'm with. So I tell him and then he continues to ask more questions. Crane OP jumps out and comes over. Guy is ranting about how if the crane flips over it will obstruct the tracks for the trains. My boy, the OP, just purposely got himself fired from CSX a week prior. He didn't know the guy giving us chit though. He say's your working for CSX .....we both cut him off and replied, "No we're not." Guy leaves still being a d**k. Last tree down and sent the crane home. I helped clean up the rest of the trees that hadn't been touched yet. That's when the rain rolled in. I got soaked.

Bonus, brought home a truck load of 6'' honey locust limbs.

 

[thewoodlands]

The 2025 version of a skating surface is back, eight bags of sand put down by the 3 point sander and the driveway is good.

Picture 1451 is what it looked like before I started.

 

[Dieselhead]

Oh man I may catch some slack for this one. Tonight is grilled cheese and tomato soup night at the DH household. So base tomato soup stock is Campbells 50/50 water and soup. I add tobasco, dried minced onion, parsley and a nice chunk of cheddar cheese. Say what you like but it’s bangin’! 😉😜

 

[Dieselhead]

Once that block melts down it’s creamy cheesy tomato soup

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[MRD1985]

Once that block melts down it’s creamy cheesy tomato soup


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Tomato soup cook off!

 

[Dajolu]

I’m gonna have to try that.

 

[Dieselhead]

The first time I had cheddar tomato soup was at “The Big E”. I think it was in the MA state house. Hooked ever since.

 

[vatmark]

That looks tasty. Why did you think you would catch slack? Because you used canned soup? That's just called a shortcut.

 

[Dieselhead]

That looks tasty. Why did you think you would catch slack? Because you used canned soup? That's just called a shortcut.

Yep. Not even classy canned soup like progresso 😉.

 

[NickW]

Been burning splitter scraps, brush, old pallets and made the mistake of trying to burn damp sawdust since about 1:00 this afternoon. Still wandering up and down the hill to the fire pit to stir the coals...

 

[Pinesmoke]

I was up north last week working so things were in a sideways slide, one of those weeks.

While I was gone things were pretty wild up here. There were 2 wildfires. One at the base of the mountain, 10miles out, ran about 100 acres and the one that started about a quarter mile from our place ran 250 acres of Cherokee National. This was all going off during a 70mph wind event. Thank God it was a south wind and the starts were north of us. Needless to say the evacuation the wife was wrapped up in was...... hectic over the phone getting the place buttoned up for her to run.

All the cleanup I've been doing is definitely a good thing that I need to double down on. I learned some things about deep forest fires, at least these. The pine canopy here is very tall, 60 feet or so and the fires didn't make it up top, they were only ground brush fires although raging in the videos I saw. Living in the woods make me see these things from an angle of the clean woods floor isn't done for pretty but one of no dead fall fuel.

I suppose "work done" posts may get boring but the clean up will be leaning harder into ground fuel than stove wood.

Y'all stay safe and warm. Breakfast up the hill at the place that put the wife up for the night to thank Chris, then off into the woods.

 

[Pinesmoke]

Went out to start cleaning up a couple of trees snapped off by the wind and T walked out with her boots and wanted to help. It's the first time she wandered into the woods due to the snakes. Then she REALLY surprised me when she wanted me to teach her about chain saws. I wondered who switched out my wife 😂.

Taught her on some gravy cuts but she wanted a photo opp.

 

[vatmark]

Went out to start cleaning up a couple of trees snapped off by the wind and T walked out with her boots and wanted to help. It's the first time she wandered into the woods due to the snakes. Then she REALLY surprised me when she wanted me to teach her about chain saws. I wondered who switched out my wife 😂.

Taught her on some gravy cuts but she wanted a photo opp.

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You go T! I always let me husband do the chainsawing. We had an electric chainsaw in the past and I used that once or twice on some smaller stuff. The chainsaw scares me a bit. But I am good at sharpening the chains.

 

[stoveliker]

All of that load

Work to be done, that is.

Got a delivery. A few sticks of cherry, and one or two of white oak. The rest is red oak. 26" dia, 7 ft long or so at the bottom.

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This'll be for the winter of 27/28 or later.

All this is now split and stacked either in my shed or thrown in the neighbors tent. Except for this.

 

[mpaul]

Took down this oak tree that was knocked over a few years ago. It was pinned up against some neighboring trees. About an hour and a half to get it down and bucked up.
Believe this is red oak?

 

[trailrated]

This isn't all I've done so far in 2025, but hauled out some maple this afternoon. Can anybody tell what kind of maple this is....silver, sugar, etc?

 

[Turbo89]

Nice looking load of wood! Looks a lot like beech to me, but I’m not as good as some on this forum… so take that with a grain of salt.

Today i laid a linoleum floor in my work shop loft, split about 15-20 rounds with the fiskar, and cleaned up the wood stack and shop a bit. I’m slowly picking away at my stack of rounds, but need a few more pallets…. and really need to fix my log splitter before I tackle all of the down trees in my yard.

 

[trailrated]

Nice looking load of wood! Looks a lot like beech to me, but I’m not as good as some on this forum… so take that with a grain of salt.

Today i laid a linoleum floor in my work shop loft, split about 15-20 rounds with the fiskar, and cleaned up the wood stack and shop a bit. I’m slowly picking away at my stack of rounds, but need a few more pallets…. and really need to fix my log splitter before I tackle all of the down trees in my yard.

It's definitely not beech, I know it's maple just not sure what type.

 

[NickW]

This isn't all I've done so far in 2025, but hauled out some maple this afternoon. Can anybody tell what kind of maple this is....silver, sugar, etc?

Not great pics for ID purposes, but could be young red maple... I don't think it's silver. Some of the trunks in the background look like they could be red.

 

[trailrated]

Not great pics for ID purposes, but could be young red maple... I don't think it's silver. Some of the trunks in the background look like they could be red.

Interesting, my guess was silver. I'll have to post a better pic.

 

[MRD1985]

Got some free ash from my neighbor. Had to burn a round or 2 of the big pieces. Infested with carpenter ants. Tree was standing dead.

 

[trailrated]

Had a bit of spare time this afternoon, pulled out some red oak. More to get this weekend.