No More Wood Cutting For A While Pics.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 28, 2012

Well today I thought I would head up to the upper 40 here on Clinton Camp Farm, to see how much snow is in the woods. I guess we will have to wait a while, and the weather watcher is predicting another 3-6" tomarrow. lucky us!! I sure am glad I have well over a years worth of seasoned wood lining my driveway and 3 full cord stored in my celler. I think I will set back and just keep the wood boiler stoked.
Anyway I polished the chains and cleaned the fall mud off the tractor tires before I tucked it away in my celler.
Last year I drove the Chebby wood gitter up and into the woods all winter. (pic. 5&6 same place yr. apart) Jay, the last pic is for you! HeHe
Loren, the Acg.

Justin SE IOWA · Dec 28, 2012

Is that last picture in an apartment? Looks as if you have at least 5 water meters on the back wall.

evilboweivel · Dec 28, 2012

zone pumps for hot water heat

thesmoothedeere · Dec 28, 2012

I like the look of the sheet metal on those cases.

Ultradog MN · Dec 28, 2012

Great photos Loren.
I always like the photos.
Very handsome tractor too.

bradley martin · Dec 28, 2012

Loren: I have often wondered how you manage your woodlot to keep the understory so open. Here, most of our bushlots have so much grapevine, virginia creeper, poison ivy, sapling maple,maple, hickory, beech and walnut saplings, not to mention hawthorns and buckthorn, that it is a struggle to walk through in most places. Your pictures always show open forest growth without the undergrowth that we have.

CH(upstate,NY) · Dec 28, 2012

I've got to get the Massey out tomorrow and move banks back with the loader already.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2012

YEP! Lots of white chit thar!

Bob Bancroft · Dec 28, 2012

Just another of the differences you can find in NY by just traveling a few miles.
Our woods has always been a mess. Different types of trees are dominating now than in my younger days, but the general mess- mostly buckthorn, is the same. The ground tends to be wet here, and in most cases the woodlands condition has been exacerbated by farm land being artificially drained. So any woodlot unfortunate enough to be down slope from farmland, is doubly wet.
Some years back now I worked a little in a friends woods several miles east of here, up slope, on different soil. I was amazed at the difference. Big, healthy trees, such that you could maneuver a tractor almost anywhere in the woods. He has had it harvested several times over the years.
Then down slope from me, closer to Cayuga lake, there are steep ravines, the sides being treacherous, miserable clay soil, often barely covering shale, but never too wet, growing beautiful oak.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 28, 2012

In 1995 I retro fitted radiant heat into my 2400 sq.ft. ranch house. Each room is a zone,and what you see is the zone pumps. There is a whole lot going on in my heating system including Solar DHW and a freebe used,Royall Wood boiler in my garage that I installed this summer, which is heating the whole house, plus my 1128 sq.ft. shop now. Have some other heating alternatives also, but the Oil boiler hasn't burned a drop of oil for the past two seasons/ going on 3 now. Been burning the heating oil in the diesel tractors that I have, far cheaper than buying bulk delivery off road fuel, which the farm gets, or at the local fuel&food.
Loren, the Acg.

JayinNY · Dec 28, 2012

no more cutting wood here either Loren! Glad you got the case inside. Im gonna feed the wood boiler too, its gonna be cold the next few days, here is my pic for you! lol

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2012

Bob-How does draining the farm ground above you make the forest ground wetter? Don't the tile mains get dumped into the creeks and ditchs?

Northval - PA · Dec 28, 2012

Kids and I went down to Dad's place in Bel Air, MD to cut wood. No snow there. They had 8 large trees come down from Hurricane Sandy. Plenty to cut.

Bob Bancroft · Dec 28, 2012

Often just dumped into the woods. There's enough slope here that not too far in it takes care of itself and finds its own path out. Sometimes it will cut a path, but more often than not it just spreads out, and soaks everything up.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 28, 2012

Brad,
We live in a rather unique place. 1400-1500 ft. depending where you look. The Sugar bush/upper 40 lays on limestone bedrock. The soil is no more than 14" deep and comprised of years of composted leaves and debris. The older trees have found moisture to survive by penetrating their roots down into the crevices in the bedrock that run north and south. when we get a dry year like we had this year, until Aug, the undergrowth does not have enough root structure to find moisture. For some reason, these woods also have a thick carpet of Myrtle, which does not allow seeds to root in soil. This year a lot of 6-10ft. sapplings died from lack of moisture, and over the past 3 years we have had a lot of ice storms that have stripped the tops out of 20-30 year trees, so I am conserned as to the future of these woods. To top that off the Asian Ash Bore has devistated them. In the last coupla years blackberry bushes have really taken ahold around the woods where sunlight can now penetrate.
Loren, the Acg.

Ken Macfarlane · Dec 28, 2012

I've never seen a 1/2 ton chebby stand up to a load of wood like that green or dry, you must have a bit more spring under her than the average bear.

James Howell · Dec 28, 2012

Looks like you had fun on your "tractor tour".

Nice looking tractor; glad to see you putting it to use.

Thanks for sharing your photos with us.

Bret4207 · Dec 29, 2012

We have 16-18" here I'm told. I haven't measured it. All I know is that if it wasn't for my ancient old cobbed together JD 40 crawler we'd be in a world of hurt. I think I've got at least 14 hours seat time int he past 2 days. I plowed and plowed and plowed just so I could get the old 59 Willys enough traction to finish plow. I had a half load of manure to spread, double ring chains on the 800 Ford and going sort of down hill and I was chewing every inch. Thank goodness I thought to plow out a return lane with the crawler.

I'll be int he woods today breaking out roads. I didn't get my wood out and it's darn sure not at the house. We generally bring a big load up once a week or every 10 days. Gonna be a fun winter.

chevytaHOE5674 · Dec 29, 2012

I cut a lot of my firewood in the winter as its the slow time on the farm. I take the 4wd tractor out and make a couple passes on my "roads" to pack them down. Once they are packed and left to freeze they are easily passable with even my little Ferguson TO-30 that I skid most of my wood with.

Adirondack case guy · Dec 29, 2012

Bret,
I have a little 1957 Case 310, but the engine is very tired. I need to get it up and running again. We are planning on hanging about 1500 sap buckets again in the end of Feb. and the 310 would be very handy. We had one just like it back when I was 10+ years old that kept everything moving in the sugar bush. Back then we were hanging 3000 buckets. The dozer and a 300 like this one, drug out firewood for the evaporators, and pulled the gathering sleighs and wheeled tanks.
Are your Ash trees dieing up there? A few of our bigger ones are hanging on, but the ones about 6" in diamiter are dead, great firewood though.
Loren, the Acg.

Bret4207 · Dec 29, 2012

Yep, the Ash are dying, but they assure us it's not the Emerald Ash Borers. They say it's a different Ash borer, like thats supposed to be re-assuring?

My old 40 is no power king but it gets by in 1st and 2nd gear, even 3rd sometimes despite the slipping clutch. If the 310 runs at all I'd be packing my woods roads down.

JK-NY · Dec 29, 2012

I guess my wood cutting is done for a while too. We had approx 12-15" of snow last weekend, 12-14" more Wed night/Thurs and are in for a few more today. None of it was the fluffy lake effect that settles down alot either. My main way in and out of the woods is through a field at the end of a dead-end road, and the town plow already had a pretty good pile of snow pushed up there. It is also an uphill haul on the way out (loaded) so this much snow makes it pretty tough. I do have 3-4 years worth ahead , cut split and covered up so I should be fine.

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