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Another good day in the woods

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Youngest son came up this morning with his saws and we went to the woods to block the firewood logs that I have been skidding to a landing this past week. We made sawdust for about 5 hours less a lunch break.
I'm starting to feel a little old. Scott is 46, and his sister turned 49 today. The oldest son is 51.
I am judging that we have about 6 cord blocked and ready to be split. The only reason that I took the 430 and splitter up was to use the gin pole with winch on it to pull logs out of the piles that I bucked up with the loader on my Kubota. We had a great day together.
Got home about 3:00 and got to talk on the phone with several YT friends, and wifey and I enjoyed the evening out in the enclosed patio with a fire in the fireplace and some grilled burgers for supper.
GEEE it hasn't even rained yet today.
Loren
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Looking good. Glad you added to your team of me myself and I. For things like this sometimes I wake up in the wee hours and think... is there any way I can make it even easier...
 
Looks like a nice pile. Reminds me of my dad when he burned wood. He went to fuel oil. I said I would be never burn wood now I have a woods and a boiler. Lol he comes and helps me. Full circle .....may full oval...,a hood day for you never the less.
 
Loren,

It's great the way you all work together... on the wood cutting and the making syrup in the spring.
 
Must not have the same woods I have. Where I'm at there is poison oak on everything. Chain sawing is a winter sport where you can wear protective clothing.
 
Nice jag of wood . Your are a lucky man to have a son that will take out the time to come and help his dad cut wood. I spent may days in the bush cutting wood with my own dad, he loved the bush, and would rather be in the bush than the barn or the field. When my Dad was your age , I was only 27 , the youngest of 5 kids. And I was his wood spliter , dad heated with a wood furnace and a cook stove. He burned a lot of wood , and the wood for the cook stove had to be split fine. Sounds dumb , but I still enjoy holding-swinging the axe.
 
as much wood as you cut you should try renting a processor, if nothing else just to see how much and how easy firewood can be. i'm getting ready to rent one for the second time, I fell in love with with them, sure can make a pile of wood in short order
 
Well to start with, there is no good way to get a processor back into the woods. Second off, I make firewood down to 1.5" diameter limbs. I'm like the butcher who even saves the squeal when processing a pig. The trees and tops are crooked and hard to handle. Trees that are straight are left to grow into timber.
Processors are fine if you buy truck loads of firewood logs, and have an open level area to set up, but not for what and where I cut. I would have built one if I thought it would be more efficient than my current system. Besides, I need the excersize that I get working and handling the wood.
Loren
 
Another good day Loren. I appreciate you sharing.
I really like how you've taken the time to tweak and fine-tune your firewood gathering system. Just enough technology and machinery to take the hard work out of it, but not so much that you're crashing through the forest on an iron beast ignoring the surroundings. Well done.
 
I really enjoy your wood processing posts. What kind of wood is that I cannot tell from the pictures. In NEKS it is Oak, Hackberry, locust, Hedge mostly for heating wood. I heat with wood as well.
 

Are you felling the trees or cutting up blowdowns? Looks like nice stand of woods. Had to cut down very dead tree my place, used a cheap Poulan someone was throwing in the trash. Replaced primer bulb and fuel lines, had chain sharpened and it cute up whole tree--about a 35 footer with 20" trunk. Since it was right along my driveway, hauled the wood with FEL on my Massey-Ferguson F40. Saved my back.
 
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