Randum pics. from Clinton Camp farm, Sept 2014

Adirondack case guy · Sep 18, 2014

I've been pretty busey with cutting wood and other fall projects. Haven't posted pics in quite some time. Had a good garden year, will post about that another evening.
Crops did well here, big yield from the oats, excellent first and second crop alfalfa. Third cut looks good, waiting for the custom baleing crew to get here to do the third cut. The beans are drieing down good, and the ears on the corn are past dent and husks are drying down
We've had some wierd weather patterns and storms this year, some local damage from flash flooding and wind, but not rite here.
The last couple of pics is of the last log that I fell to fill my woodshed for the 2014/15 heating season, and the small section,(about a cord) that I still have to and bring it home to stack fill the woodshed. Got sidetracked this week. Menenite crew came in and put up a new corn storage bin, and the dump trailer was needed there to remove top soil from the site and prep for concrete footings and floor. We brought the topdoil down to one of the uncle's to backfill around his new blacktop driveway. I graded it off with my Kubota trackhoe, raked it smooth seeded it down. I get to use the trailer tomarrow to bring home the last of my wood.
Loren, the Acg.

Kow Farmer · Sep 18, 2014

Glad to read you are doing well Loren. As always, I enjoy reading what you are always doing and enjoy the great pics too. Thanks for sharing with us.
Kow Farmer Kurt

Rick Kr · Sep 18, 2014

Always really great pictures.

lee little · Sep 18, 2014

Nice pics I always look forward to them. Your wood stacking ability never ceases to amaze me. It would probably take me all day just to stack that load.lol

Formerly PaMike · Sep 18, 2014

I just have to ask...Wouldnt it be easier to make two trips with the trailer than to go through all the trouble of stacking it that high?
I will say, it does look cool though.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 18, 2014

It generally takes me 2 hrs to load a load like that. Only the edges and ends are stacked.
Loren

Az peapicker · Sep 18, 2014

Loren

Looks like the Deer are trying to tell you that they won t be around come Deer Season .
Is that wood just for the House ? Have you started on the wood for your Maple syrup cooking ?
Really nice Pictures Thanks . John in Az.

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Adirondack case guy · Sep 18, 2014

I hate to bring home a half load. It is a 2 mile trip one way. Only the edges are stacked, and only takes 2 hrs. to load it. I'm on knowones schedual and I like being in the woods. The tractor burns X anount of gas each trip, wether I haul a full load or a partial. It is all downhill from the woods.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Sep 18, 2014

John,
Finishing the wood for my house and tractor shop.
We haven't started cutting for the sugarbush yet.
Loren.

lee little · Sep 18, 2014

that makes sense. I love to cut wood also. I only have to haul it a half mile or less usually.

Trkr · Sep 18, 2014

How many cords on that wagon?

gtractorfan · Sep 18, 2014

Looks like if you're going to load wood that way very often it would be worth making some high sideboards and maybe use your loader to fill it? BTW, I like that trailer!

Mark6005 · Sep 18, 2014

Lots of wood cut nothing split. Still in the 70's here. Lots left from last year. Can't seem to get out and split it until cooler weather. Still in shorts and mowing too often cold will . Be here soon enough. Central Illinois

Formerly PaMike · Sep 19, 2014

Geeze, two miles thats a big farm.

Adirondack case guy · Sep 19, 2014

I get 1.25 Full Cord of 20" wood on it, or 160cu.ft. I figure it in cu.ft. after it is stacked in my woodshed.
Loren

Adirondack case guy · Sep 19, 2014

I can't drive two tractors at once. Wink.
Loren

gtractorfan · Sep 19, 2014

This is one of the "cases" I'd have to think about. "there's got to be an easier way, there's GOT to be an easier way...loader on the Kubota..jackstand on the trailer" (but then that's how we end up getting out of shape lol)

Mike (WA) · Sep 19, 2014

Great pictures, as usual. Always nice to see a well-kept farm, just to remind me what it looks like.

My woodlot is on the edge of the lawn in back of the house- I haul it to the wood shed in the tractor loader! But we use very little wood- give most of it to daughter, who heats with wood as much as possible, to avoid burning $3.50 fuel oil.

Billy NY · Sep 19, 2014

Definitely a good feeling, got the wood for the heat needed this season, goods from the garden canned/frozen, etc. Now we'll await that first cold rainy day or significant snow, where you'll be posting that you're warm, well fed and you get to reap the benefits of the work.

I've got to finish splitting here, then go get more logs, next years, and or all the dying/dead elm out there. It's nice if they will tow in with what I have, given the hills.

I get creative when stacking the wheelbarrow, use stakes, stack up high like your trailer, seems the way one stacks, the weight and shoving a wedge here and there, tightens things, holds it together. In the photo, looks like any terrain variance would be a problem, but I'll bet it all stays together somehow.

Tx.Ricefields · Sep 19, 2014

Always enjoy your photos.....the Stihl saw looks new, what model do you prefer? I've used Echo saws for yrs. and just recently purchased a 261 Stihl and really like it.

Trkr · Sep 19, 2014

Thanks,I thought you might have had 2 on there.Splitting wood this week,too.Burn mostly hickory,pain to split,but I love the heat.

Randum pics. from Clinton Camp farm, Sept 2014

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