Work Done in 2021

[stoveliker]

And you have too much pine to split and stack it? (Though this year you ran out of pine...?)

I have a year scheduled (23-24) where I have only red oak and a bit of black locust. I like to have some pine too, for starting fires.

 

[thewoodlands]

And you have too much pine to split and stack it? (Though this year you ran out of pine...?)

I have a year scheduled (23-24) where I have only red oak and a bit of black locust. I like to have some pine too, for starting fires.

This next little warmup, I plan on finishing the last stack of the six face cord. I didn't stack a full six for this year (just getting sick of pine) so the five face we had we burned, we usually save two face for the spring but not this year.

The pine is also nice for throwing on top of coals when you need to burn them down.

We use to burn Hemlock but I haven't even touched any of that, mother nature snapped off a few nice size trees back on the lot I usually cut on. I should have a shoulder season GTG.

 

[shortys7777]

Borrowed my dad's log splitter. Finally tackled all the knotty maple and ash I had from last fall then started on the rest the ash and red oak. I'll put in another hour today hopefully. Want to get most of it done before he takes it back.

 

[thewoodlands]

In picture 2572 are two dead pine in the middle of the picture, I felled the smaller one first and the bigger one second and then split some of the bigger stuff, it made for a nice hot fire. In picture 2578 you can see the stump I left.

 

[stoveliker]

White Pine?

See here.

 

[clancey]

Why are you burning the wood outside would not you want to save to bring it home...clancey

 

[thewoodlands]

Why are you burning the wood outside would not you want to save to bring it home...clancey

Back before 2018 if the dead pine was solid enough, yes but in 2018 I cleared a bunch of pine for our new garage plus we had two big pines taken down by a tree service, we have enough pine that we'll end up losing some to rot.

Once the storm gets through our area tomorrow morning, I'll get some pictures of the pine from the clearing I did and the two we had taken down.

 

[thewoodlands]

Why are you burning the wood outside would not you want to save to bring it home...clancey

Since we bought the lot in 2002 and had the house built in 2003, I've been working on taking down dead pine, 19 years later I'm still doing it. It's been a bunch of work but the property is a nicer lot having the dead pine gone and thinned out.

The outside fireplace allows me to get rid of it quicker.

 

[thewoodlands]

See here.

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[stoveliker]

Not white pine. So, I guess red then.
Don't have access to the needles anymore.

 

[thewoodlands]

Not white pine. So, I guess red then.
Don't have access to the needles anymore.

I thought it looked like Scots Pine but we don't have many left on our property, maybe two on the house lot and I'm not sure on the other.

 

[stoveliker]

It wasn't orange or flaky near the top, and too brownish at the bottom (rather than grey).

It'll remain a mystery. I'll be burning the evidence 😉

 

[rottiman]

I think it is red pine

 

[MEngineer24]

It wasn't orange or flaky near the top, and too brownish at the bottom (rather than grey).

It'll remain a mystery. I'll be burning the evidence 😉

Pitch pine possibly?

 

[stoveliker]

This is possible, as I see that the pine barrens here are dominated by pitch pine. I'm lucky though that the grain is quite straight, whereas I read that pitch pine often is not.

 

[thewoodlands]

I had lots of stuff that was cleared from some trails (pine branches) we also lost tops out of two white pine back by the sandpit, one pine I cleared from the trail and the other is still there.

Near the brook we lost a beech, the biggest part was rotten but I still had almost a full load that I brought home.

Picture 2579 is part of a white pine that came down, 2580 is what mother nature left standing, 2581 is about 75 yards from 2579, 2583 is the same tree that's in the first picture but that part came down near the end of last winter (I think) 2584 is just the sun, 2585 is the trail opened up and the last three are the beech by the brook.

I pulled out of the woods when a rotten branch off a birch came down about 20 yards from me, the winds were picking back up so it was time I cleaned the saw and called it a day.

 

[stoveliker]

Spent a few hours splitting. Finally filled the shed. Last 1.5 stacks in on the left. Pine (likely pitch pine).

The wood for this winter is still on racks under tarps near my garage. So this is for up to 4 years out.

Also finagled a ramshackle rack in my garage. Left is oak limbwood (with some cedar that I split a bit finer before stacking it there so I can use it for when I want really quick cold starts, or for warm reloads when I don't really have good coals left). Right is pine. So can burn down one "row" while the other one is drying from rain, or (as now) I have a mix of hard and soft woods available.

 

[shortys7777]

Got into the red oak yesterday. Still have some more to do.

 

[kennyp2339]

Golfing this Thursday - 60deg f, next Thursday I will walk across the street from the course, hop on the chairlift and do some skiing on the mountain.. crazy weather here. Only 60min away from @stoveliker house.

 

[stoveliker]

Golfing this Thursday - 60deg f, next Thursday I will walk across the street from the course, hop on the chairlift and do some skiing on the mountain.. crazy weather here. Only 60min away from @stoveliker house.

yes, I'm using the minisplit here this whole week. The only night the stove would be useful is Tue night at 36 F. But one night is too short for me to light it up. Saturday night I'll start again, and it looks to be at least until Christmas.

 

[thewoodlands]

I had a new relay switch along with a new voltage regulator put on the Rhino, hopefully that stops it from making the battery go bad. With the old regulator on with the Rhino running, the battery was getting 18v, with the new one it was reading just over 14v.

I did some clearing in the back gully, part of a rotten basswood came down across the trail so I through it up the hill some. After clearing a few more trails around the house, I grabbed this smaller beech by the Brook, this was southeast of the one I grabbed yesterday.

Picture 2590 is the rotten basswood, 2591 is the tree it came from, 2592 is the beech by the Brook, 2593 is the best of the beech and 2594 is the worst of the beech.

 

[thewoodlands]

Today I made the rounds on each side of the Brook. Picture 2601 is a widowmaker off the trail, 2602 & 03 are the top of a white pine blown out of the tree in pic 2603, 2606 though 2611 is a damaged beech I brought home and 2613 & 14 is part of an ironwood that I left, it was damaged from an ash I grabbed earlier in the fall and that came home too.

 

[thewoodlands]

2615 is a maple that the wind brought down that I bucked up but left, 2616 is another beech further down the trail, 2617 is one of the rounds, 2619 is what I left standing until I get back there again, 2620 I'm loaded up heading home until further down the trail when another tree was down across the trail so the saw came out and I took care of it.

 

[thewoodlands]

I took care of the the downed dead Hemlock (from the wind storm) at my neighbor's, once my neighbor heard my chainsaw she came down with her four wheeler with her saw and started working on some of the limbs that I left long, she also was there to help load up the trailer and take the split wood over to a different area, it was nice talking with her.

I grabbed the smaller Beech I saw on my way out yesterday, 20 rounds after we were done at my neighbor's. Not far from the smaller Beech was a nice size wind damaged Beech, I'm not sure if I'll get to it this year since I'll be s/s the Beech we have here but if I can, it will come out before winter.

Picture 2622 is the smaller Beech the wind took down,2626, 2627, 2628 is the bigger Beech the wind damaged and 2629 I'm heading home for the day.

We have a Wind Advisory on for tomorrow starting at 7 p.m., wind gust up to 55 mph.

 

[heavy hammer]

we have one here as well again thewoodlands. It has been busy at work lately with all this wind. Did you loose power?