Well I've found myself in between jobs for about a month and worked out a deal with a few local folks to cut their firewood. Seems like it's easy to find short term work around VT once word gets out that you're handy with a chainsaw...
These photos are from the main job I'm working on with a dual purpose of clearing pasture and generating firewood. The trees in this section are 90% red maple with a few black and yellow birch, very easy cutting and splitting. The first photo is a bit of a mess since it was taken right before a lot of brush dragging but you get the idea. Can you spot the hidden saw?? Everything back to the conifers is being cut, though a few that are leaning heavy away from the clearing might stay. To the right of the photo is another patch of about 15 more maples to go. Most are in the 8-12" range with just a few pushing 20", makes for easy hauling and splitting.
Here is my one and only splitting tool, the Gransfors Bruk splitting maul. I can't reccommend this highly enough, even hard maple splits with relative ease and in this softer stuff it is an absolute powerhouse. The price was a hard pill to swallow but I've found it worth every cent.
Finally here's a quick video of some of the bigger drops from the week. The stumps are all being left so high at the land owner's request for potential future use as fence posts, so a lot of them probably will get lopped off lower once the fence is up.
That's all for now, the job runs through the third week of March and I aim to have new content about once a week.
These photos are from the main job I'm working on with a dual purpose of clearing pasture and generating firewood. The trees in this section are 90% red maple with a few black and yellow birch, very easy cutting and splitting. The first photo is a bit of a mess since it was taken right before a lot of brush dragging but you get the idea. Can you spot the hidden saw?? Everything back to the conifers is being cut, though a few that are leaning heavy away from the clearing might stay. To the right of the photo is another patch of about 15 more maples to go. Most are in the 8-12" range with just a few pushing 20", makes for easy hauling and splitting.
Here is my one and only splitting tool, the Gransfors Bruk splitting maul. I can't reccommend this highly enough, even hard maple splits with relative ease and in this softer stuff it is an absolute powerhouse. The price was a hard pill to swallow but I've found it worth every cent.
Finally here's a quick video of some of the bigger drops from the week. The stumps are all being left so high at the land owner's request for potential future use as fence posts, so a lot of them probably will get lopped off lower once the fence is up.
That's all for now, the job runs through the third week of March and I aim to have new content about once a week.
Enjoyed watching and will continue to check it out.
