Work Done In 2020

[SpaceBus]

Sorry to heat that Spacebus. My grandmother hatched chicks and ducks for many years unfortunately it happens. Still a crappy feeling when it happens. I hope the other 24 do well.

Indeed. The rest look fine and all were all doing well this morning. At first I thought these 8 week might go very slowly, but with all the work to do around here it might go pretty quick.

 

[thewoodlands]

Depending on the weather tomorrow, I'm hoping I can take the Rhino back in the woods to widen some trails for the RTV. If that does happen, I'll come home with some American Hophornbeam or Ironwood.

 

[heavy hammer]

My phone was dead but I ended up cutting a few truck loads of firewood for a buddy at work for his outdoor fire pit. It was a hot weekend but I'll take it. Spacebus are you planning on getting and ducks or other birds?

 

[SpaceBus]

My phone was dead but I ended up cutting a few truck loads of firewood for a buddy at work for his outdoor fire pit. It was a hot weekend but I'll take it. Spacebus are you planning on getting and ducks or other birds?

I want some palm turkeys or pea fowl next year. If I'm able to make a permanent pond on the property ducks or geese would be nice, but geese are kind of scary.

 

[heavy hammer]

Look up runner ducks they produce a lot of eggs and they are pretty cool to have running around, they look like a bowling pin with legs. There are a few different varieties out there. Duck eggs taste a little different but in cooking and baking you won't notice a difference. Plus they require little maintenance.
Indian Runner duck - The Livestock Conservancy
livestockconservancy.org › heritage › internal › runner

 

[SpaceBus]

Look up runner ducks they produce a lot of eggs and they are pretty cool to have running around, they look like a bowling pin with legs. There are a few different varieties out there. Duck eggs taste a little different but in cooking and baking you won't notice a difference. Plus they require little maintenance.
Indian Runner duck - The Livestock Conservancy
livestockconservancy.org › heritage › internal › runner

I pretty much only bake with duck eggs, but I buy them locally.

 

[EODMSgt]

Managed to get out and split/stack four more trailer loads. It was 72 and raining when I started and 81 and sunny when I finished, so not too bad. Finished the cord stack on the left and went to work on the one on the right (probably can't tell from the pictures but they're double rows). The left stack is mostly beech, white birch, and some silver maple. The right stack (so far) is mainly ash, beech, and (long dead) red oak. Judging by what I have stacked so far, I have about 4+ cords left in rounds/logs to split and stack. Added to the 8 cords I already have CSS and seasoned, it's not a bad place to be in late July and it looks like I'm closer to my goal of 20 cords than I thought.

 

[thewoodlands]

Managed to get out and split/stack four more trailer loads. It was 72 and raining when I started and 81 and sunny when I finished, so not too bad. Finished the cord stack on the left and went to work on the one on the right (probably can't tell from the pictures but they're double rows). The left stack is mostly beech, white birch, and some silver maple. The right stack (so far) is mainly ash, beech, and (long dead) red oak. Judging by what I have stacked so far, I have about 4+ cords left in rounds/logs to split and stack. Added to the 8 cords I already have CSS and seasoned, it's not a bad place to be in late July and it looks like I'm closer to my goal of 20 cords than I thought.

Nice job @EODMSgt , the way you work that 20 cord will come quick.

 

[EODMSgt]

Thanks @thewoodlands. Only got three trailer loads done yesterday before the heat got to me (and one load was nothing but uglies).

 

[Gearhead660]

Havent done much wood this summer, been hot and humid. Cut a load to clear a spot for a hunting blind. Also got a "free" load from a friend, already cut up. Now I remember why I prefer to cut it myself...

 

[thewoodlands]

I felled two Yellow Birch to make room for plowing snow and it will make the entrance to the small gully bigger and easier.

Picture 0626 is the first smaller Yellow Birch, 0627 & 0628 is the rounds from the Birch, 0629,30,31 is the second Birch that I felled today and the rest of the pictures are what I plan to fell so that whole area is open.

 

[SpaceBus]

I was excited to mill a big Balsam fir log today only to dull up the chains several times on hidden bark debris to find half the log rotten. It went smoothly once I had it slabbed up, but the second log was just as bad with dulling the chains. I'll be spending a lot of time with the grinder tomorrow, I should get pretty fast!

 

[thewoodlands]

Just some pictures of the Yellow Birch (3 separate trees) that I felled today, there is still more bucking left but once I ran out of water, I called it a day. One part of this Yellow Birch was very small like a branch and the first part I felled, I forgot to take a picture.

 

[SpaceBus]

Was finally able to get that log cut open after getting the dirty bark off. I'm wondering if the grey staining is from old nails or screws that just dissolved over the past 40-50 years. It always seemed like my chainsaw bar wanted to climb in the cut right as I got to the area with the staining.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today I took care of the tops from two Yellow Birch, there isn't any big wood but these rounds will burn. I did get all the small branches off to the side with some on the backhill but I can get through the trail after I cleared everything that was down. I did drag one top out of an old trail using the rhino, it also put me cutting in an area that had some shade.

One of the pictures is the gully at the base of backhill that will need limbing up more for our RTV.

 

[axisx]

nice work !!

 

[mrd1995]

Another couple loads of rounds, Norway Spruce, Red Pine, Silver Maple, and Ash. I think White Ash but could be wrong was growing along a stream. All free plus a little shipping and handling of course. All in I think I got close to 3.5 cords free. Trailer is just about a half cord. 6.5' x 10'

 

[alivegas99]

Mid August and with all the heat i’m starting to long for winter when I can start burning this stack (~5 cords)!

 

[Medic21]

Put down a nice Hickory in the neighbors yard a couple weeks ago. Finally cooled off enough to work on it on my days off this morning.

about a Cord of wood for this trailer.

 

[Medic21]

Getting the processing area cleaned up for fall. Gonna be time to hit it hard soon.

 

[heavy hammer]

Cut till about 9 last night helping my brother get these large ash trees at a friends of his cut up. It saved him a couple grand to not have the tree guys remove it plus we get all the wood. I'll get some pics this weekend when we start hauling it.

 

[EODMSgt]

Finally making progress despite the heat. The front pile of rounds is almost finished being split and stacked. Going by the cord calculator, so far I've gotten just over 4 1/4 cords out of the pile (each of the new stacks is 1.25 cords and the 1 1/2 bins of uglies is just over 1/2 cord) . Based off that, I'm estimating I have around 3 cords left to split and stack between what's left in the front pile and all the rounds and logs in the back. Not bad for scrounging late winter/early spring. (First pic is where it started.)

 

[Gearhead660]

Finally making progress despite the heat. The front pile of rounds is almost finished being split and stacked. Going by the cord calculator, so far I've gotten just over 4 1/4 cords out of the pile (each of the new stacks is 1.25 cords and the 1 1/2 bins of uglies is just over 1/2 cord) . Based off that, I'm estimating I have around 3 cords left to split and stack between what's left in the front pile and all the rounds and logs in the back. Not bad for scrounging late winter/early spring. (First pic is where it started.)

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Very nice. Your stacks are always impressively clean looking. What is that last pic? Custom wood crate?

 

[EODMSgt]

Very nice. Your stacks are always impressively clean looking. What is that last pic? Custom wood crate?

Thanks. The last pic is just a homemade pallet bin that I use for uglies. I have one and a half filled so far (lots of uglies with beech). Easy to move around with the forks on the tractor.

 

[gleblanc1783]

Getting super excited for this season. It's been a while, my wife and I just moved into our new home and were living in a 800 sqft apartment while it was being built... Absolute torture but worth the wait.

Since winter is quickly approaching I had 3 cords of wood delivered for this year. By my eye it's mostly oak, some birch and other misc hardwoods. We own ~4 acres which is mostly Hemlock, but I spy some decent trees that I'll probably harvest either this fall or next year. I have a tractor on order that will be a huge help in all this.

Don't have many good pictures but I can post more eventually... Feels good to be back!

Since I plan on burning these 3 cords this year they are currently sitting directly on a layer of woodchips, I know I might sacrifice a layer but I needed to get this stacked ASAP.