The "What did you cut/haul today?" thread

[Nuzzy]

So forgive me if a similar thread already exists, but I don't recall seeing one and a search didn't find anything. Anyways, I got to thinking how there are a number of times I only have a or two pics of the day's work that are fun to share, but may not always constitute a thread of their own. Hence this thread.

Everyone please feel free to add! Whether it be a write up of your day, pics, whatever. Keep it ongoing opcorn:opcorn:


And if you think the idea is stupid, please feel free to tell me. I have very thick skin and will probably continue anyways in trying to get people to post

 

[Nuzzy]

dingeryote made mention in his poison ivy thread about some of the brambles we've been cutting in. Yeah...

Some of them are EVIL

First time I've personally seen this color in wood! Thinking maybe red elm...?

Here's a decent sized black walnut we took down yesterday. Had to get the huge limb on the lower left to fall away from the powerlines so we could safely fell the rest of the tree away from the lines. I was on comealong tension control while dinger did a great job cutting the limb in less than ideal positions

Then with dinger's help pounding wedges and being a second set of eyes to keep tabs on what the top of the tree was doing, I plopped 'er down.

Twas a great day of cutting!! Well, that is until I heard dinger caught the poison ivy monster...

 

[xcr440]

Too windy here to do any cutting. I have seen wood around here with that red color in it. It was box elder.

 

[grandpatractor]

Too windy here to do any cutting. I have seen wood around here with that red color in it. It was box elder.

Yup that box elder just loves to grow in fence rows and along side old buildings.

 

[Tree Pig]

The only thing I hauled today was my fat 275lb, 43 year old ass up 30 feet testing a new climbing set up. But it was still fun. gonna have to get a camera out there one of these days.

 

[jburlingham]

I bucked up a small jag of white birch today, sorry no Pics.

 

[vwboomer]

I checked out a lady who had some land logged a couple years ago and wanted the tops cleaned up. "More wood than you could ever burn" I was told. mighta been true when it was logged before it was left to rot!

Brought home about a cord over two trips - 90% red oak, 10%ash. Some punky on the outside but the inside is ready to burn so I'm happy. Not just tops either. The biggest was about 24" and maybe 4' long. Someone had been in previously and cut some of it up before abandoning it. Can't lift it dont cut it!

There's more to be had but without an ATV I dunno. I backed my truck in over saplings and rocks but the rest is probably too long and hard to haul by wheelbarrow.

 

[Wife'nHubby]

Scored a bit of free birch from Craig's List today

and split & stacked about 3/4 of a cord of maple today

and it's snowing now!

Shari

 

[rngrchad]

I hauled a 14ft John boat w/ 9.9 Mercury, full of fishing gear

Get ready because it's fishing season, and I can't resist the urge to post pictures of Bass I catch......Later Nuzzy.

 

[husky455rancher]

cut one 125 or so year old elm. only other worth note was a 2 ft dia pine. the rest were just aroung s foot or so if that. did more cleanup today than anything.

 

[synness4]

went cut some doug fur out of a blow down if I could get it all I'd hove 20 years worth of wood too bad some is to hard to get.

 

[fiasco]

what I did today...

Cleaned up some ice storm damage, hauled brush, yanked some widow makers out of other limbs. I had to take down one tree that had its weight in other branches completely snagged in it...came down within 90 degrees of its intended direction! Considering the amount of snagged wood up there, I did pretty well.

I need another person and/or rope and a come-along and/or my father's 43 horse Kubota to persuade a few larger trees to fall where I want them....

Still, the ice storm damage should net me at least 3 cord from my 2.75 acre lot, so between that and neighbors/family, I won't be paying for heat this winter! Used less than 200 gallons of oil all winter, with my hot water on the furnace. My little Vt. Castings Encore got quite the workout! Just a few nights worth of seasoned wood left, so I'm about done.

Oh, and wife'n'hubby's posts are great! Motivational and inspirational!

 

[Dalmatian90]

I inserted my head so far up my ass I could lick my own tonsils. And then had to go ask my neighbor for another chainsaw and a consultation how to get mine out of a 21" red oak I was felling. I've never had to ask someone how to get a saw out before, or borrow a saw*

I guess I got cocky for lack of a better word...I didn't double check my work as I was cutting.

*I should get my dad's old XL-12, the one I learned on, resurrected as a backup saw again...but I still wouldn't have used it for this job.

 

[Tree Pig]

I inserted my head so far up my ass I could lick my own tonsils. And then had to go ask my neighbor for another chainsaw and a consultation how to get mine out of a 21" red oak I was felling. I've never had to ask someone how to get a saw out before, or borrow a saw*

I guess I got cocky for lack of a better word...I didn't double check my work as I was cutting.

*I should get my dad's old XL-12, the one I learned on, resurrected as a backup saw again...but I still wouldn't have used it for this job.

felling wedges are cheap and will help prevent getting your saw stuck and maybe bending a bar, plus they improve your safety a wee bit.

 

[outdoorlivin247]

Nothing...I got the pleasure of going to Chicago and watching Dora The Explorer LIVE...

I did get to cut a couple of honey locust down that were to big to push over w/ a dozer on Thursday night for a guy I work w/...Got a nice trailer load out of it...

 

[dingeryote]

Scored a bit of free birch from Craig's List today

and split & stacked about 3/4 of a cord of maple today

and it's snowing now!

Shari

Shari,

You do realize that the snow you had yesterday, will be here today while the Nuzzmeister and myself are cutting wood right?

I trust you beat that storm up a little for us.

It is appreciated! LOL!!!

3/4 cord split and stacked is a fair bit of work to do on a day off from bieng retired! LOL!!

I guess we all need Heros

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[KsWoodsMan]

I broke in the new saw on approx 20 tons of Elm, Maple and ice from the storm here this weekend. We will see how it does tomorrow after I retune it and turn it over to one of the boys in the morning.

 

[HuskyMike]

I cut a couple of small storm damaged (topped) maples and bucked them up.

2 more to go out of that little stand at the end of my driveway. All less the 8 inches around.

I still have half of a uprooted big Maple to cut and get out of the back woods and a huge Ash that split as if it was hit by lightning to take down.

And I gotta get that white Pine that is laying across my roof. Don't really know how I am gonna do it without damaging the house. I started making some under cuts to bring the base in toward the house but now I have a stream and a high bank to contend with.

 

[Wife'nHubby]

3/4 cord split and stacked is a fair bit of work to do on a day off from bieng retired! LOL!!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

We had a little help today! Hubby and son were splitting (drives me nuts when hubby's out there). - Oh dang, guess I must explain why it bugs me - Hubby has a partial artificial heart. It runs on batteries. If his batteries get low they 'beep'. When they 'beep' they must be changed within 5 minutes (don't ask what would happen if they were not changed). With the gas splitter running it's too noisy of an environment to heart the 'beep'. Anyway, all adult family members are trained in what to do if hubby keels over (not that that would be a fun experience). I really hate to not let him help because he wants to help. So.... when we use the gas splitter I bite my knuckles and grin and bear it when he helps when splitting with the gas splitter as we were today. Actually, we used both splitters today - the gas splitter to make the big splits and the electric to then split them further.

Because of hubby's condition is one reason we bought an electric splitter. The elect. is only noisy during the split and doesn't interfere with hearing hubby's 'beep'. That's another reason I am kind of holding back on a gas saw, it is too noisy to monitor hubby but eventually I will have to get a gas saw and just simply tell hubby to stay in the house when I am using it.

It was kind of cute later in the day today - we finished splitting what we wanted for the day and our two 7 yr. old and two 3 yr. grandchildren were like ants over the split pile carrying them to me to stack. Honest work never hurt anyone no matter what their age!

Shari

 

[dingeryote]

LOL!!

I understand now.

If my wife was dealing with that, I'd get tackled, pummeled into submission and a new battery installed every time the washer changed cycles.:hmm3grin2orange:

Hang in there, and keep spoilin' the youngins with the good things that are free.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote