Work Done 2025

[thewoodlands]

Since I would be using the tractor today, I used it when we put in two loads of firewood. With the warmer temps coming in, I moved more snow from certain areas and then opened up a few areas I hadn't been since the last two big snow dumps.

 

[thewoodlands]

I moved a bunch of wet heavy snow down in the woods along with scraping down certain areas where the water was running or will run. Before I moved any snow, I loaded up the 3 point sander with 280 pounds of sand, everything will freeze tonight so I'll be sanding tomorrow.

We had 62 in the sun today.

 

[Pinesmoke]

We were in the woods today clearing dead and chipping brush again. Teresa seems to like running the chipper 😁 so it takes the load off me to cut and drag. After 4 hours a neighbor stopped by to BS and after 45 minutes of down time we called it lol. I should have never slowed down.

 

[shortys7777]

Not much but it was a half mile down the road. About 20 minutes to hook my trailer up, drive down, cut, load, drive back home. Cherry

 

[thewoodlands]

It was just another round of sanding the driveway with the 3 point sander on the tractor today. Hopefully the warmer temps coming in with the rain will get rid of all the ice on the driveway.

 

[ctreitzell]

I’ve been cleaning up/ thinning/ coppice the hazels on my property…I’ve seriously cut back the largest one over in my orchard. Started out like this

Now looks like:

I really didn’t want to lose the screen, but those overgrown, older trunks were too top heavy and major limbs were splitting.
And the messiest one in my front bank…which I have to get back to especially before the Asian hornets wake up around here…I didn’t take any picks

 

[thewoodlands]

I spent another three hours moving snow today away from the house before the warmer weather moves in along with the rain. I have a few more spots that will get finished tomorrow and then I should be done unless mother nature has more winter left in her.

 

[Pinesmoke]

I feel for ya woodlands, moving snow, ugg.

77 here and we just finished up dragging and chipping the 1/2 mile of woods along the road. I dragged anything a 4" chipper would swallow down the steep part of the hill and now it's just piles of mulch. I'll blow the piles back up into the woods tomorrow.

Got some cut firewood to move out and cleanup closer to the house but that's gravy compared to the last few days.

 

[Dieselhead]

Teresa seems to like running the chipper

You may want to start sleeping with one eye open!

 

[Pinesmoke]

You may want to start sleeping with one eye open!

It's pretty loud, I think I'll be OK LOL.

 

[thewoodlands]

I feel for ya woodlands, moving snow, ugg.

77 here and we just finished up dragging and chipping the 1/2 mile of woods along the road. I dragged anything a 4" chipper would swallow down the steep part of the hill and now it's just piles of mulch. I'll blow the piles back up into the woods tomorrow.

Got some cut firewood to move out and cleanup closer to the house but that's gravy compared to the last few days.

Since we had so much, I started moving it early, tomorrow it should be pretty much done except for along the driveway. The ice on the driveway should be gone after this weekend, we should be in the mid 60's with almost an inch of rain.

Most places are out of tube sand because the places they get it from won't be getting anymore in this year, I have some old pellet ash leftover from last year for backup. I think we have six bags of tube sand left, usually when I do the whole driveway, I use 6 to 8.

 

[thewoodlands]

I did dump two loads of snow on the ashes in the outside fireplace before I started moving more snow. I finished up the area I was moving snow from yesterday, I also removed more snow on the northside of the house.

That was another three hours on the tractor, I dressed for spring but should've dressed for summer, the deer are loving the sun.

 

[Turbo89]

took the road less traveled and found this wood today, and then cut it into 16” lengths when I got home. I also picked up a few new pallets, and will try to do some more splitting / stacking over the weekend.

This stuff is heavy, what am I looking at, ash or beech?

 

[stoveliker]

Doesn't look like beech to me. Maple branches?
Not ash imo.
Horizontal stripes -> (black) birch? But I don't know how that looks like on the cut end

 

[Turbo89]

Doesn't look like beech to me. Maple branches?
Not ash imo.
Horizontal stripes -> (black) birch? But I don't know how that looks like on the cut end

Hmmm, I didn’t see the leaves or pay arttention to the branches. These looked like youngish trees that were too close to the road.

It doesn’t have that usual peeling birch bark through?

 

[thewoodlands]

took the road less traveled and found this wood today, and then cut it into 16” lengths when I got home. I also picked up a few new pallets, and will try to do some more splitting / stacking over the weekend.


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This stuff is heavy, what am I looking at, ash or beech?

It looks like pine.

 

[Turbo89]

It looks like pine.

Hmmm what species? It doesn’t smell piney and I didn’t noticed a crap tone of needles everywhere.

 

[thewoodlands]

Hmmm what species? It doesn’t smell piney and I didn’t noticed a crap tone of needles everywhere.

White, if it were pine you would smell it .

 

[Turbo89]

I dunno, I’m leaning beech. Haha

 

[Pinesmoke]

I dunno, I’m leaning beech. Haha

Me too. Looks like the smaller limbs of the beech I have down here.

Since I'm covered up with white and yellow pine down here I can put a pretty solid no it's not pine.

ETA
Light orange on the fresh cut and the lichens on it and heavy. If it turns a darker orange on the ends it'll look just like what I have piled up.

 

[MRD1985]

took the road less traveled and found this wood today, and then cut it into 16” lengths when I got home. I also picked up a few new pallets, and will try to do some more splitting / stacking over the weekend.


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This stuff is heavy, what am I looking at, ash or beech?

Does look like a Young white pine or possibly young spruce.

I can say for certain it’s not ash or birch. Beech is a small possibility. But the smell
Of the wood should be distinct if it’s white pine or spruce.

 

[Turbo89]

lol, my buddy’s biologist wife said its probably grey birch, and that I was giving her painful flashbacks to undergrad… so I guess stoveliker wins!

I’ll split a piece tomorrow and see what it smells / looks like, and post back.

 

[Dieselhead]

lol, my buddy’s biologist wife said its probably grey birch, and that I was giving her painful flashbacks to undergrad… so I guess stoveliker wins!

I’ll split a piece tomorrow and see what it smells / looks like, and post back.

Black birch, great stuff. I like it better than oak. I burned a lot of it in the 22-23 season.

 

[MRD1985]

The black
Birch I am familiar with has much darker bark. Tell tale is that it should smell like root beer when cut!!

 

[MRD1985]

The black
Birch I am familiar with has much darker bark. Tell tale is that it should smell like root beer when cut!!

I’m serious! Lol. Black birch smells exactly like root beer when fresh cut. At least the black birch I have cut.

That being said all the black birch I have cut has been in northern maine.