Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Good to hear from ya kk!
Finished the utility corridor today. The hillside is very steep... the old steel and concrete stairs are very steep... I had to dig my logging boot heals in to stay on the hill. It was challenging to fell trees under those conditions! Tomorrow morning the electrical contractor is going to try to drive the drilling rig up as far as he can and hopes he can reuse the same hole as it's solid rock... I don't know how the trees even grow on it! I have a little tidying up to do with the pole saw but otherwise it's done... might try to clean up an ugly stump, might not though as it was a dangerous tree to cut. All together I have about 11 hours on that hill and my son has about 8 helping me.
I believe the trees I couldn't identify are some type of sumac... haven't been able to identify the variety yet. The other trees taken down were catalpa and a few small maples. The old power pole is near the bottom of the remaining stairs (from there down they were removed by a previous owner... bad condition). I cut the pole into 3 pieces so I could work around it easier. The debris to the right is in an old foundation that is about 8 feet deep... it doesn't look like much but there is a LOT there... 8 or 9 useless trees plus brush. You can just make out the powerline drop going from the conduit to the upper right corner of the photo.
BTW, the odd stripping on the road is for the Empire State Trail... there are bike lanes on both sides of a state highway on the way to the bridge over the Hudson River.
I believe the trees I couldn't identify are some type of sumac... haven't been able to identify the variety yet. The other trees taken down were catalpa and a few small maples. The old power pole is near the bottom of the remaining stairs (from there down they were removed by a previous owner... bad condition). I cut the pole into 3 pieces so I could work around it easier. The debris to the right is in an old foundation that is about 8 feet deep... it doesn't look like much but there is a LOT there... 8 or 9 useless trees plus brush. You can just make out the powerline drop going from the conduit to the upper right corner of the photo.
BTW, the odd stripping on the road is for the Empire State Trail... there are bike lanes on both sides of a state highway on the way to the bridge over the Hudson River.
I guess you can't see the trailer under it.So, the water there used to be higher?
Yes, I went in with the crew Friday to Sunday. 24 on the crew total, including the previous trip two weeks earlier. 475 trees removed, including many, many tiny snow trees. Our part of the crew specifically made many water bars, as well as removing down trees. The trail finally opened today.
This was an especially fun spot right before Divorce Rock. It was hung up for a few years now, but finally dropped enough that something had to be done. I’m in the second picture.
A rig had a broken ring & pinion on Boulder Alley, a wife drove a replacement to the trailhead and one rig went and got it. It was a few hour delay, then off we went.
I like your new wheelbarrow.
2033, or 2043, not sure yet.
A visitor left a calling card at 1:30 am. It made some ruckus, but took off when we got up.
Gonna miss all those trails.
Gonna miss tall those trails.
Your trails aren’t tall in Idaho?
Lol…typo
dont really have trails here. Just dirt roads the side by sides play on.
The smaller one(B2620) is a lawnmower lol, but this one isn't much bigger(L3800)...Looks like that job is too much for that lawn mower…
But, either one does a lot more than my new to me exmark does
.This is where I had to park when we got home from picking it up from an har and a half away, a trip that took 3hrs to get back, the last 15min took over an hr. Couldn't get down either drive. I guess there were 114mph winds and it was a tornado. I saw a few different 10-40acre wooded tracts of land and hr and 30mins from here where all the trees were broken and twisted off at around 10-20' off the ground, pretty nasty looking, I'll try and get some pictures or a video today if I can. Three trees behind the trailer, couple black locust and a smaller mulberry.
This one shows a pile of barn steel I had that one landed on, surprisingly, it looks to have minimal damage. These were mixed in with the elm that I stood up and another black locust that was on the other side of the elm, all on the roof of the barn, my boat trailer, and the 25' aluminum/steel trailer I built last summer.
You can see a bit of the boat trailer here.
This one shows one smaller cherry uprooted, two with the tops broken off, and three of the leaning black locust in front of the barn. I think that's 15 trees lost just right around the barn
. I also have 3 more BL between the barn and the rd that need to go because the root plate lifted, Once those are gone and the other only grown trees are removed, there are only 4 trees left in that area . My wife was pleased when I told here she will have an area to plant her orchard, but not pleased with how she got it. I bet she was praying again
, gotta be careful what you pray for .
Nice set up KK
Welcome back , El Chapo , need some new vids , Lol
WoodAbuser
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Have a good weekend everybody. I'll be spending it at my cabin. Will try and catch up to all the posts when i return. Play nice all. 
I agree 100%
I think I would have ground that one down as far as possible.
What a mess. That reminds me of our ice storm we had back in 2008. We had 400 cord of wood harvested from our woodlot from the damaged trees.The smaller one(B2620) is a lawnmower lol, but this one isn't much bigger(L3800)...
But, either one does a lot more than my new to me exmark does
This is where I had to park when we got home from picking it up from an har and a half away, a trip that took 3hrs to get back, the last 15min took over an hr. Couldn't get down either drive. I guess there were 114mph winds and it was a tornado. I saw a few different 10-40acre wooded tracts of land and hr and 30mins from here where all the trees were broken and twisted off at around 10-20' off the ground, pretty nasty looking, I'll try and get some pictures or a video today if I can. Three trees behind the trailer, couple black locust and a smaller mulberry.
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This one shows a pile of barn steel I had that one landed on, surprisingly, it looks to have minimal damage. These were mixed in with the elm that I stood up and another black locust that was on the other side of the elm, all on the roof of the barn, my boat trailer, and the 25' aluminum/steel trailer I built last summer.
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You can see a bit of the boat trailer here.
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This one shows one smaller cherry uprooted, two with the tops broken off, and three of the leaning black locust in front of the barn. I think that's 15 trees lost just right around the barn
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He did get the job done with it. That is what really matters. I wish I owned a much bigger tractor but I have to make due with what I got.Looks like that job is too much for that lawn mower…
