Work Done In 2020

[thewoodlands]

Tried planting some trees. How long to maturity for this species?

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They say after the first case is consumed on the deck, they really takeoff.

 

[EODMSgt]

Haven't had a chance to do much firewood-wise the last couple weeks but did get out today (it was only 91...). A friend dropped a few trees and said I could have a couple so despite the heat, I went over and bucked them and brought them home. One was a standing dead beech and the other was a dying silver maple. Lots of quality wood with some minor punk at the center.

 

[NickW]

Deer enjoyed the tops of some aspen I dropped starting to clear a building site for our hopeful cabin in the great northwoods. Not much "good" wood there, mostly aspen and pine; but a few small cherry. Plenty warm, more than plenty mosquitoes and wood ticks, boat won't run for crap... Now hopefully the builder comes back with the good news that he can hit the budget for the foundation, shell, septic & well! Working on plans B & C if he can't...

 

[SpaceBus]

Two more alpacas are coming tomorrow to join lonely Lightning. I'm hoping to get sawmill assembled out to the full 6m this weekend. I think we will be felling trees again on Sunday, so I'll probably touch up all of my chains today or tomorrow. I've got plenty of log cut offs to break down into firewood. This year has been so dry that my logs cut a few months ago are already checked and cracking. Even stuff I split a few weeks ago is already dry enough to burn in the wood stove. Totally different than last year.

 

[Medic21]

I just wanted to wait till it was 90 by noon to go back to firewood.

 

[Gearhead660]

I just wanted to wait till it was 90 by noon to go back to firewood.
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Where's the marshmallows?

 

[Medic21]

Where's the marshmallows?

They melted in the front seat by 7am today lol.

 

[moresnow]

They melted in the front seat by 7am today lol.

To funny! Oh my. Weight loss program... all that heat. No marshmallows.

 

[Medic21]

To funny! Oh my. Weight loss program... all that heat. No marshmallows.

And I’m heading to the gym in a bit on top of that.

 

[SpaceBus]

We were able to get Lightning partially shorn before it got super hot and his friends BB and Hans (the other cinnamon) arrived today. Thankfully today wasn't hot, but Hans was still pretty stressed out. BB is super friendly and handles very well. Lightning immediately started calling out to BB at first sight. They greeted through the fence and immediately got along. Hans and Lightning are very chatty with each other and seem to be playing. My GSD got pushed around by BB a bit when we introduced them, but Seamus is pretty pushy.... I've never seen Lightning so happy and I hope the good manners of BB will rub off on him.

Hans and BB really seem to miss their old home and handlers, but I am confident they will settle in just fine.

 

[thewoodlands]

I didn't take any pictures but today I limbed up a bunch Pine, 1 Elm and 1 Sugar Maple along the side of the driveway. I won't have to worry about getting face slapped when plowing this winter, it will also give the business we bought the RTV-X1100C plenty of room when they deliver it.

 

[thewoodlands]

Here are the limbs from the work I did along side the driveway.

 

[heavy hammer]

I want to see some pics of the new RTV-X1100C when delivered.

 

[thewoodlands]

I want to see some pics of the new RTV-X1100C when delivered.

Will do @heavy hammer , I'll be limbing up some trails around the house so I'm not breaking any of the lights on the outside of the cab and a bunch on the property I do most my cutting on.

The wife wants to keep the Rhino too so I'll need to make room in there for both.

 

[JimBear]

Will do @heavy hammer , I'll be limbing up some trails around the house so I'm not breaking any of the lights on the outside of the cab and a bunch on the property I do most my cutting on.

The wife wants to keep the Rhino too so I'll need to make room in there for both.

His/Hers UTV’s??? Lol

 

[thewoodlands]

His/Hers UTV’s??? Lol

That surprised me too, I have a feeling the new one is hers.

 

[mrd1995]

Got all of the wood we have cut gathered up by our storage shed mostly dead standing ash, few junk trees (willow and sassafras, mostly for the fire ring) that were easy pickings, and some red oak. Picked up free pallets to stack the remainder of the wood that is outside. People laugh when I tell them I don't have a stove in the house yet, but will actually start that next weekend. approx. 16' X 20' car port.

 

[thewoodlands]

It was pretty windy yesterday so I decided to check the trails, nothing down which is good. I did clear some face slappers from a few trails, for some reason I never took a before picture.

 

[SpaceBus]

Very close to ordering a hydraulic post hole digger. I'm looking at getting two augers, a 24" for placing 8x8 posts and a 9" for placing 4x4 fence posts. Here on the coast it's all packed clay with lots of gravel, rocks, and boulders. I'm thinking a round carbide tipped rock auger due to the ledge and granite, but I'm not sure it's 100% necessary. There are carbide tipped augers that have flat teeth which cost much less, but I think I will really hate myself if they don't work out.

 

[SpaceBus]

I just placed an order for a Danuser EP10 offset PHD. Working with a different vendor for the rock augers, they have a much better price.

 

[thewoodlands]

My plan was to remove four stumps but one is near a nice Maple tree so I'll zip that off closer to the ground, the first two were smaller and the third stump I zipped off the top some so I could plant it right back where it came from.

This will give us a small trail in that area for walking or running the four wheeler on it.

 

[JimBear]

I almost wore myself snagging this gigantic haul yesterday. I thought they were just a couple of little dead American Elms but they were Reds.

 

[JimBear]

Cut up some Osage that wasn’t going to make the grade for fence posts, about 2/3 cord this load, some of it needs split but that’s a project for a cooler day. I think I have about another 1/2 cord to load up, haul & stack with this stuff.

 

[heavy hammer]

All you guys doing wood, all I did yesterday was mow. I did get the place looking good for my daughters 7th birthday party. I even mowed around all my log piles one of these weekends I'll cut them.

 

[Woodsplitter67]

As of right now I'm done untill January. this is this years work
I split and stacked this.. this is 12x4.5x7

I went on the scrounge for all this .. free wood.. cherry ,white oak, red oak. the pile is 8x6x24

I'll be back at it.. come January.. ill start processing the log lenth and filling the woodshed..