Runnin' Loads

There are parts of our property that are only accessible by ATV and a small trailer. It's not like I'm gonna just throw that wood into the brush pile.

 

lol
This one

 

Hubba hubba.

That's some beautiful country on God's green earth.

Some guys have all the luck.

 

I’ve hauled lots of wood that way to the pickup in pastures too dense to cut a pickup trail. I even used an old lawnmower for a while after my grama got a new one. Had a John boat trailer that you could stack 1/2 cord on till my brother decided he needed a skidoo trailer more

 

Run this load of ash up to the neighbours late this afternoon

 

Start bucking with the 2171

 

Oak score today. Have about 6 more trailer loads out of this place to go. Thank goodness for the little articulating grapple machine on site to load

 

I love getting a bunch of oak. Burns hot and splits good. I burn almost all oak but I’m lucky to be in a spot where it grows all around. Nice score!

 

I'm lucky to have a large tree service that doesn't fool with firewood - they hook me up with all the good wood. we sometime go to job sites and they will load with crane or grapple. if we can't get there for the job they bring all the good stuff back to the yard and we go over every sunday and get a few trailer loads. They charge to remove from job - we take it so they don't pay dump fees - its WIN WIN

 

Didn't realize Case and International were together.

 

Since like 1985...

 

Wish it was like that here. Tree service here charge you even if you pickup when there doing the job.

 

Cutting into some fir

 

What's the payload on that truck? Those are some big rounds, very impressive.

 

Usually about 1000 pounds.

 

Cleaning up some ash for a friends parents. This is truck load 12

 

Took down 22 dead standing fir trees a couple weeks ago that a friend had on his property. These are pictures and a short video of the more notable trees. I had to climb this one and remove the limbs on the downhill side so it wouldn’t want to fall towards the barn as it was rotten at the base. just a little on edge while in the back cut. After trimming off the rot from the co-dominant trunk I realized there wasn’t much holding this tree up.


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Nice big fir but the video isn’t working

 

A couple weeks before the snow and yesterday after a few inches. I know... I know... not much of a truckload but I do all I can in a few hours. It’s great exercise for a messed up back!

 

From here the trailer gets parked in the attached garage where it will be slowly offloaded into the woodburner in the house. You could say it's the end of the road for these former trees.