Work Done In 2020

[heavy hammer]

once dry you will not be disappointed. I burn a large amount of locust, probably my most abundant amount in my stacks and logs. It will burn very hot last a long time and takes forever to rot.

 

[thewoodlands]

Just another day dealing with dead White Pine, I split two trailer loads of the better stuff which is over by the outside fireplace waiting for a good hard rain and the bigger rotting stuff against the White Pine and on the ground is cut up enough so I can bring that over to the fireplace.

 

[thewoodlands]

I'm still cleaning up dead pine, over by the fireplace is full so I'm waiting for a good soaking rain and then I'll start burning all the junk pine.

Picture 0894 is from a ride yesterday, 0895 is where I started , 0898 is after most of it cleaned up and the rest is dead [ine going over to the outside fireplace.

 

[mcdougy]

Had some help today.....hauling some of last winters css out of the woods behind the house.
The help was appreciated and felt great to have them all out there with me

 

[thewoodlands]

I had dead pine by the fireplace but once it started to rain hard, I started the fire and ran around the house property cleaning up certain areas. I hauled 10-12 loads of dead pine from just off the trails I've been working on.

The rain came down hard for most of the day but we needed it.

 

[thewoodlands]

Mother Nature came through with some heavy rains again today so the cleanup continued, I've gotten rid of a bunch of dead pine in the last two days so the area I've been working is looking much better.

Pic 0933 is a before and 0938 is after and 0936 is some smaller Ash that will be stacked.

 

[thewoodlands]

Just some before and after pictures of the area I've been cleaning up. Picture 0887 is before and 0944 is after, 0888 is before and 0945 is after.

 

[thewoodlands]

I switched to working a different area but I'm still dealing with dead White Pine branches, some of it was smaller dead standing with most of it coming from limbing up some old Pines with the Stihl Pole Saw. I hauled 7-8 loads over to the outside fireplace and got rid of them, we also had more rain today.

I must've forgot to get some after pictures which I'll get tomorrow.

 

[MMH]

You’re putting me to shame as usual; lost most of the summer to exams so getting a late start. Moved all my splits finally, measures 4.3 cords. Leaving the front open for juniper and mahogany if I can ever get out and cut. Built the end caps after seeing some ideas on here of course. Did some tractor work and cleared a spot to stack the rest of the rounds. Sorry last one is crooked

 

[thewoodlands]

You’re putting me to shame as usual; lost most of the summer to exams so getting a late start. Moved all my splits finally, measures 4.3 cords. Leaving the front open for juniper and mahogany if I can ever get out and cut. Built the end caps after seeing some ideas on here of course. Did some tractor work and cleared a spot to stack the rest of the rounds. Sorry last one is crooked View attachment 264111
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Very nice, when do you usually start heating with wood?

 

[MMH]

Very nice, when do you usually start heating with wood?

If I remember right last year it was mid October ish, but we weren’t burning 24/7 until mid-late November; the way the weather has been it’ll be the same. Currently 30-40s at night still 80s in the days, haven’t even had our first fire yet. How about you?

 

[thewoodlands]

If I remember right last year it was mid October ish, but we weren’t burning 24/7 until mid-late November; the way the weather has been it’ll be the same. Currently 30-40s at night still 80s in the days, haven’t even had our first fire yet. How about you?

We have been burning, we had an early cold snap with the temps at night hitting 28 and the temps during the day in the low 50's. After that we had warmer weather move in so we stopped burning but this week we would have a fire at night or in the morning with some shoulder season wood, White Pine.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had more rain overnight and today so I did more limbing up of the old White Pines and took down some smaller dead White Pines that made for some nice fires.

In picture 0958 is a smaller dead pine I removed, 0959 & 61 were Pines I limbed up yesterday, 0962, 0965 and 0966 are the Pines I limbed up today and there were three more dead Pines not in the picture that I also removed and then burned.

 

[thewoodlands]

I have a wind damaged Beech back by the Brook I need to deal with since it's near the trail, the last picture is the Brook which hasn't had much water in it this year so the rain this week has helped some .

 

[MMH]

We have been burning, we had an early cold snap with the temps at night hitting 28 and the temps during the day in the low 50's. After that we had warmer weather move in so we stopped burning but this week we would have a fire at night or in the morning with some shoulder season wood, White Pine.

Trusty ol pine. Yeah the last couple years have been strange for winters, extremely mild. Hoping for a good winter this year

 

[thewoodlands]

Trusty ol pine. Yeah the last couple years have been strange for winters, extremely mild. Hoping for a good winter this year

When we get snow here during the winter, it seems the rain comes in a week or two after. When we moved here just under 17 years ago, we would get a chit load of snow which would stay for the whole winter but not anymore.

We do get some cold winters still, -20 or -30 for a week straight during the coldest stretch, Recently our springs have been cold and longer when they use to be warmer.

 

[heavy hammer]

The winters here lately are kinda the same a cold spell with some snow then by the weeks end temps are well over freezing with some rain. I would like a cold winter to freeze things up for awhile. I'm not looking forward to another muddy winter.

 

[thewoodlands]

The winters here lately are kinda the same a cold spell with some snow then by the weeks end temps are well over freezing with some rain. I would like a cold winter to freeze things up for awhile. I'm not looking forward to another muddy winter.

They have wet and wild this winter for our area, whatever that means.

 

[heavy hammer]

They are calling for the same here.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today I took the day off from the dead pine cleanup around the house and grabbed some damaged but good rounds of Ironwood back on our other lot.

 

[heavy hammer]

I only mowed and did some leaf cleanup. I still have a lot of wood to cut but I'll probably wait till I start burning to cut. My brother has three large locust trees in the front of his place he wants taken down since when trimming for the power lines they kind of mangled them. He said he will get the JLG and I can have all the wood.

 

[thewoodlands]

I went back to cleaning up the lot around the house today. 0987 is a dead pine on a trail near the back gully, 0989 is the pine on the ground, 0990 & 91 is the splitter setup and the first load, 0992 & 93 is looking the other way on that same trail which I started to clear for a walking trail but every time you get around the corner there's another two or three dead pine.

 

[NickW]

Finally got the cabin building site cleared last time up north but forgot to get pics. Last time up to finish burning brush & debris and clear some trails until excavation starts (hopefully) in spring. I could come up for deer season, but I never see anything... do better at home.

Figure 13 cord of logs or so. Mostly pine & Aspen, but about 1 1/2 cord is birch & cherry. Been hauling the Aspen home for shoulder season, keeping the pine for campfire wood. Planning a ZC fireplace in the build so the birch, cherry & dead ash from the swamp will stay for cooking outside and the fireplace.

Slowly making progress at home moving the css into the garage to make room to start processing more. Changing my stack layout from north south to east west to get better air flow. Gotta really focus this fall on getting 2-3 years ahead. Not everything I have for this year is as well seasoned as it should be. I've got fans on it in the garage to help it along. We had a fairly wet summer and not a lot of high temps, so that didn't help.

 

[thewoodlands]

I helped the wife with some grocery shopping along with a stop at Lowes and Walgreens for a flu shot. Once we got home we put the groceries away and two more cups of coffee for a boost and outside I went.

I cut up some junk pine that was on ground and then moved that with some old branches over to the fireplace with the tractor, I'm hoping it rains overnight so I can have a fire but it sounds like we could have some pretty good wind gust.

Just in case we get some high winds, I moved the splitter, pallet forks and the snowplow for the Mahindra out of the woods.

 

[thewoodlands]

After it rained for an hour this morning, I started burning. I did get rid of all the dead pine I've taken down or picked up over the last two weeks or so. It rained real hard twice while I was burning so that was nice, after supper, I dumped six five gallon pails of water on what was left.