Work Done in 2020

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Today I took the day off from the dead pine cleanup around the house and grabbed some damaged but good rounds of Ironwood back on our other lot.

 

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I went back to cleaning up the lot around the house today. 0987 is a dead pine on a trail near the back gully, 0989 is the pine on the ground, 0990 & 91 is the splitter setup and the first load, 0992 & 93 is looking the other way on that same trail which I started to clear for a walking trail but every time you get around the corner there's another two or three dead pine.

 

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I did some trail clearing today (didn't take a picture of everything} I hadn't been to the area in picture 1052 in years but on the way to it, I cleared out two dead pine and up the hill was a dead Hemlock, 1053 is a rotten Basswood that came down across the trail,1054 is a dead rotten Maple that I cleared , 1055 is the after picture of 1054, 1058 is coming back home down 1052.

 

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I spent the day checking certain trails and getting some American Hophornbeam. Picture 1059 is what we call our small ravine, 1061 is our bigger ravine and both didn't have anything down across the trails, 1062,1063 and 1066 is a Maple that came across our trail from another person's property so I cleared our trail and then bucked a bunch of it up and left everything, I'll call the guy this week, 1068,69 & 70 are some American Hophornbeam I brought home that finished a face cord stack and the last two are from one of the highest trails we have on our property.

 

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My plan was to get the pine in picture 1084 bucked up but the soft maple in picture 1082 just south of it came down, I think that I'll still get the pine first. The pine was taken down by some winds around the spring of 2020 from the tree in picture 1085. In picture 1086, you can see the other part of the soft maple that will need to come down and the last picture is a different angle of the downed pine.

 

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I was able to take two utility trailer loads of junk pine to the wood dump using the 4540 with the forks. I used the forks to raise the pine mother nature brought down so I could buck it up and then split it and bring over to the outdoor fireplace.

 

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Some of the day was spent clearing trails before some possible snow coming in next week. Some of the trail clearing was cutting off some face slappers with some older loppers, there were plenty of wrist size branches that were across the trail that I threw into the woods.

I did have a pine come from the neighbors property into our trail so I cleared that and did have one American Hophornbeam that was down but there was a small section of it that was rotten so that was left in the woods.

Pictures 1223 & 24 I'm getting ready to head down a small ravine, 1225 is a picture of our bigger ravine, 1227 & 28 are of the pine that came into the trail thanks to mother nature, 1231 thri 36 is the small American Hophornbeam and 1239 & 40 is one of the highest locations on our property.

 

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I cut back a Hemlock that has been down for a few years, you can see it behind the trailer on the left.

 

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I had a small Maple wind damaged tree across the trail that I took care of and then felled what was left standing and bucked up which pretty much filled the tub.

I checked another area that has a big ole Maple and it lost part of a limb, hopefully mother nature allows me to take care of it before we get a enough snow that will block off access to certain parts of our property. The buds in picture 1250 are from the big ole Maple.

 

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Since I've been clearing trails around the house, I thought tomorrow the Rhino would get some work running one of the highest trails we have so I can clear any downed wood across the trails that are on the biggest part of the property.

I haven't been back there since the last windstorm and with a possible storm coming in around Christmas, I want them cleared before any big storm hits.

The two pictures are from my last run back in on that high ridge, hopefully by next spring, the trail on the ridge will be ready for the RTV.

 

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I pretty much finished cleaning up a new trail I started earlier this year, another five or six loads went over to the fireplace. I also was able to burn a bunch of pine splits.

The other area I worked (not pictured) was limbing up some dead branches off some pine trees, I'll use this area to push snow into from our driveway.

 

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I hadn't been back in on our other lot since the last high winds we had so I went to check on the trails, not much was down just a few branches in different areas.

The first four pictures are of some trails, pics 1332,33,39 & 40 are the Brook freezing up early due to our colder weather we've been having, 1336 is an old rotten tree I've been driving around on a turn so I finally took it down, 1337 was a stump I had been driving around just above 1336 which I zipped off and 1338 is in an area we call Hemlock Haven which needs a good two months of trail clearing that's not in the picture.

Since I hadn't used or started the Rhino for what seems like a good week, I ran the hills with it. The battery was fine but it took its time getting to run like it usually does. After letting it warm up, I did around three laps on the house trails before I geared up the back of the Rhino.