Working In The woods

Sorry, no tractor related content in this video as I was just out in the woods piling and burning dead wood the other day. Got some video of the cows that stopped by for a look too. The sun finally came back and its nice working conditions at just above zero F.


Burning Wood

Thanks!It was like being there !!!

Rusty6,

Enjoyed your video, had to go put my long johns on though. lol . I too have been burning dead wood only it goes in my OWB. Nice day here yesterday and today too around 16 degrees.

Is that an implement on the horizon behind the cows? Manure spreader?

bill,
My dad farmed with JD A's and heat housers like yours. Thanks for the memory.

We had heat housers on our tractors to feed cattle in the winter.
Bitter sweet memories depending on the wind direction.

(quoted from post at 06:14:41 12/09/18) Is that an implement on the horizon behind the cows? Manure spreader?

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FarmerJohn, that implement in the background is the Red River Special threshing machine that shows up in a lot of my photos. Not usually from this low angle but I was down in the slough bottom across the fence . This is the angle I usually show it from. Out on original, unbroken native prairie.

Wow, that is so neat. If sitting out like that in Ohio would just be a pile of rust sunk in the mud from 50+inches of rain every year lately.

(quoted from post at 07:58:12 12/09/18) Wow, that is so neat. If sitting out like that in Ohio would just be a pile of rust sunk in the mud from 50+inches of rain every year lately.

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Over the past decade we have had heavy rain like that too but back to normal this year. The old threshers were made of galvanized metal which is very rust resistant. Most of the wood in the elevator has rotted away and collapsed though. In this photo from almost 40 years ago you can see the elevator was still intact in the transport position.

I am sure that 60 with that loader has a tremendous amount of lift ability. My father in law had that setup, less heat houser, and boy could it lift.

Paul

Dan, I see that's ash you are cutting. Are your ash trees dying from the emerald ash borer?

I have quite a few dead small ash trees here as well but I don't think the emerald ash borer has gotten to my part of New York state yet.

Ash around here is very plentiful and I have a lot of big ones.

If the borer ever starts killing them off around this part of the country, there will be a glut on the firewood market.

Its a pretty good firewood and so easy to work with.....almost easier to split with a maul than to haul out the splitter.

Makes a real nice stack too.....nice straight wood.

Brian, don't think it'll hurt the firewood
business much. Hasn't seemed to affect it
much here in MI. Most people that buy wood
either don't have the know how to cut their
own wood, a wood hauler or trailer to move
it with, and most people are simply too
lazy or just don't want to cut wood. When I
cut roadsides at work we are cutting all
sorts of species. We'll chip the top and
limbs, and leave the firewood sized stuff.
I can't tell people they can have the wood,
and I can't tell them they can't have it if
they drive by and ask about it. To
encourage it to disappear so I don't have
to mow around it, we usually chunk it up
into 3-4' pieces. It used to be gone in a
day or 2, definitely less than a week. Now
it just lays there and rots away. Mostly
state land where I work now, so not really
around a bunch of houses or anything
either. Sometimes I'll conduct an
experiment which proves my point to myself.
If I take a straight dead ash tree about a
foot in diameter, and cut half of it into
the 3-4' pieces, and then cut the other
half into 16" pieces, the 16" pieces will
almost always disappear shortly, while the
longer pieces continue to lay there until
they rot away. And there is a lot of people
around here that burn wood, myself
included. We are not allowed to touch the
wood from the trees we cut off the right of
way.