a good cold snap here for the last 2 nights with 3" of wet frozen snow helped out greatly! Monday morning the wood should fly down the skid road to the landing... hope the trucker keeps up! and shows up!!!! ???????
mud.....
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Jim Timber
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They're saying mid 30's starting sometime tomorrow down here. Hopefully it stays below freezing for ya up there. Should be really nice cutting weather anyway.
yes sir! the warm/cold line usually runs right at st. cloud brainerd is a 5 to 10 degs. diff.
Jim Timber
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I've seen 4-5 degrees lower consistently from the Metro to my place up there. Frontal boundaries will effect that more, but for the quick and dirty it's 5 degrees colder at the cabin than at home.
I hope it stays colder then they are predicting, as I don't need to loose 40.00 a thousand on account of some mud. even at 3' off the ground the tail drag is a itchB at 45' long. I have a couple of the whites that are 100 footers with a 8" top.
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Jim Timber
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I suppose you couldn't leave enough limbs on the top to keep the trunk out of the mud til the landing?
its an option, with adverse affect drag in an already tight space as dragging the mud like a plow in a gathering slop. sticks to everything.
Jim Timber
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I suppose it'd do a number on the trails too.
1270d
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Two days in the twenties and under and our roads tightened right up. Trucks are close to 2000 tons behind. Time to play catch up...
Mud? We're supposed to get between four and seven inches of rain here between now and Monday. We just might have a little mud.
better then fire I would assume?
Trx250r180
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When my roads are muddy ,i use the fir and cedar limbs to make a road so i do not sink so bad ,lay em across the road like building a bridge ,they will sink in the mud a little ,but your machine will quit tearing the skid road up so bad ,,if you skid the whole tree ,your chain on the saw will go dull real fast from the dirt buildup ,i would limb it right away myself .
this was a first and now there is a second! earliest deep mud season that I have ever seen!!! spring came early and half foot mud in only 2 days? calendar spring wont start for 12 days yet and I need to shut down "NOW" while the ground is still in good shape. waiting to use the new wood puller an it just don't get any better with time? it's not worth tearing up the ground for a few cords to maybe a good 8 cords on a better day of work ... small lot logging/select cutting, is not worth the hassle of repairing forest ground. road restrictions start a week from today if not sooner. half semi loads still cost the same as a full load for delivery! economics ?? just one! time to go "FISH".....
Jim Timber
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This has been an oddly rough - easy winter. 
Was demonstrating the plug planting procedure for my tool I'm selling to a friend who was buying one this morning and hit frost at exactly 6" here in the metro. There's no good that'll come from putting weight on that saturated soil! I'm surprised it's that deep up there though. You guys have been on the other side of the fronts up until the last couple days, no? We've had above freezing overnight lows for a little over a week.
My fruit tree buddies are all afraid we're going to get hit with a late frost after the trees start to bud out thinking it's Spring.
Was demonstrating the plug planting procedure for my tool I'm selling to a friend who was buying one this morning and hit frost at exactly 6" here in the metro. There's no good that'll come from putting weight on that saturated soil! I'm surprised it's that deep up there though. You guys have been on the other side of the fronts up until the last couple days, no? We've had above freezing overnight lows for a little over a week.My fruit tree buddies are all afraid we're going to get hit with a late frost after the trees start to bud out thinking it's Spring.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Froze here. I drove my truck across my yard with 3 yards of gravel, didn't even make a mark. Gotta haul a few more loads today (filling a sinkhole)
1270d
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We had to pull the plug on Monday. Working some ground with quite a bit of clay. I went out to the job site with some reps today and it was a tough go in 4 wheel in the pickup. Hope it dries quick.
I know their fears... when I lived in the lower Yakima valley in Washington state we had fruit trees and it was a fear of frost every spring during bud/blossom time. for the cure it was spraying water, or using smudge pots to chase away the white demon! it was always figured that a thin layer of clear ice was better than a lite coat of frost?....This has been an oddly rough - easy winter.
My fruit tree buddies are all afraid we're going to get hit with a late frost after the trees start to bud out thinking it's Spring.
long term forecast is for drier then normal but with any areas of a deeper frost the little rain we do get will either make for frost holes or later mud traps and both! tried to do a little work on a north facing slop but no good! we are doomed till drier times....
1270d
ArboristSite Guru
Lucky for us it was a super warm winter so the frost levels aren't very deep. The road system we re on now has only been free of snow for maybe a month so it's lucky to have a foot of frost. Shouldnt take more than three weeks or so ad long as ma nature doesn't get grumpy
true! but! it's march acting like mid april so what's to come in april showers?
