What are all of you up to this winter

Heading to my neighbors pine lot tomorrow to start bucking up and limbing several blowdowns from a recent wind storm.

He has a nice 4WD tractor with a winch on it but the trees are in a wet lowland next to a swamp. It is too wet for him to run the tractor. HE HE 🙂

He asked if I would be interested in the logs for my sugar house wood. Being right next door I could not pass it up. So I will buck up the logs then twitch them to the road with the horse.

I am hoping the wind will stop tonight. The wind chills here in NH are supposed to be 20 below tonight.

Stay warm,

Ed

Pulling red pine when I get a chance. Clearing some land at home for more pasture. Got 2 loads out, and will probably have another, then on to white pine through Feb. Looked at a blown-down Red Oak the other day… must be 4-5 cords in it. Two 12’s in the butt, pulled roots and all so I can’t really tell how sound it is. The tree lays across the slope, about 15 feet from the cresr of the hill, and has to come up hill because of a swamp at the foot of the slope. Butt measures at least 40″. She HAS to have horses move it. I’ll have to chain the tree in place and put skids under the logs before I can cut it, then roll them up-slope before rolling again onto the bobsled to take down to the farm house. I’ll try to get pix to post. Gotta get the truck into the hospital first…bearings:mad:.

Oh yeah, overseeing four harvesting operations besides mine, three with man/saw/skidder, and one with horses and a trcator-drawn forwarder. Using lots of orange paint.

And Timber, my seven year old, is after me to help him yoke the 6 month old steer and heifer so that he can start skidding wood:D.

Spent 8 hours out in the crisp air today.

Carl

I have been working off and on at thinning a semi-wooded pasture area. There is a bunch of dead elm in the 6 to 14 inch range. I am using this for firewood, I am working with the steers and trying to get them ready to work some in the woods. They are about 230# each so I am hoping that they can start pulling some of the smaller stuff. I should be able to get the shetland ponies into the stand soon if the weather breaks and the temps rise a bit or the wind stops.

Dad’s keeping the cows milked and the fires burning, along with doing some needed repairs we are keeping our heads above water.

Joshua

Thnning sugar orchard. Then back to spruce/fir sawlogs. Eleven below this morning with a nasty breeze. Won’t be doing much today.

hey carl, let us know how you do with that oak. i have one (a blow down) just like it in our sugarbush. not as big, maybe 2.5 – 3 feet, but lots of wood. i cut it off and bucked two logs and worked up the top. sounds juts like your tree, but i’m either waiting for some courage or ignoring it or something, cause there it sits. i thought i might twitch it out with three cause its near a pretty good road, but i can only get at the small end. let us know how you do. i might change my strategy. thanks

This is what we did today……. hope the wind doesn’t pick up to bad, because this is some fluffy stuff….

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