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We need to see some progress pictures of mega tree!Some branches I got from the boss's yard using my new fiskars pole saw turned into zoggerwood scrounge today. Used the oregon batt saw..a little change of pace from running the ported 394View attachment 455285
Last ones I posted are it, oakzilla current status. After the first couple days bucking on it, absolute hottest time of the year, I decided to make it a long term project and do it mostly once it cooled off, which is starting now around here, I'll proly run another tank on it this weekend. Of course one tank with a 394 is like near two tons of wood...and a lot of cutters to resharpen, ha! I'm floating around this time of year, working several different projects and work, still mowing a lot. Did a new mailbox support yesterday, freehand chainsaw milled and carved out of cedar logs. It's rough, first time I tried doing something like that. Notice, no pic..more hahahahahaha Beyond rustic, looks to be working though. I can see where carvers like those little dimetip bar ends.We need to see some progress pictures of mega tree!
Last ones I posted are it, oakzilla current status. After the first couple days bucking on it, absolute hottest time of the year, I decided to make it a long term project and do it mostly once it cooled off, which is starting now around here, I'll proly run another tank on it this weekend. Of course one tank with a 394 is like near two tons of wood...and a lot of cutters to resharpen, ha! I'm floating around this time of year, working several different projects and work, still mowing a lot. Did a new mailbox support yesterday, freehand chainsaw milled and carved out of cedar logs. It's rough, first time I tried doing something like that. Notice, no pic..more hahahahahaha Beyond rustic, looks to be working though. I can see where carvers like those little dimetip bar ends.
We don't track after dark but wolves are very much afraid of humans (normally...those that hang around towns are a different story). I have lost a couple of deer over the years but the wolves didn't find them until much later. However, if you have a gut pile it will be gone within two nights as that brings them in from a LONG ways away.
three tree stands here.i can only use 1 sat morning. i think your a little over an hour away. how close are you to rt 30?Well its official, I got next Thursday off so I will be hunting Thursday, Friday and maybe Saturday if the weather cooperates. Now I need to find a place to hunt this weekend. I figure two or three days out before I go a way for a week should help get the blood flowing again for hunting season.
I did the cold weather dance and brought in a load of pine last night for early season burning. Hauling wood into the house when it was 70 degrees just feels so so wrong. I am was sweating like a pig. Come on cooler weather. No polar vortex but some 32 deg lows and high 40's would be great for hunting.
nice pics Ben. no leaves on the tree's there looks like mid dec. here.Oakzilla. That is awesome!!!
I would love to be able to help you with that!!
Dual modded 394's bellering and sucking down fuel like no one's business...... Ralphie may - "whaaaaaat?"
I got the dumped black ash bucked, split, and stacked this afternoon.
Went from this....
To this.....
To this....
In under two hours. Also got a lot put into the burn now pile from it.
I'm pooped.
Neighbor got home and unloaded a dump box with the mini hoe in it. Had to put a track back on. I finished up with the ash and he took care of the track.
When we were done, we had a whiskey.
Standing there looking into the box I saw some stumps with about 15" of tree on them. I asked what they were.
He said white and red oak.
Out came the saw and I was scrounging in the roll off box.
Pfffft.....that was 4 split pieces of oak I wound up with.
I was about 3/4 mile back in the woods a few years back walking home after dark. I had something up on the ridge to my right *shuffle* through the leaves. Pretty sure it was a wolf or wolves but it was big game for sure and it certainly wasn't a deer. I made tracks pretty quickly.
As a kid and early teen I had bears steam roll though the brush in front of me. Totally different than any other animal as it sounds like a bowling ball going through the woods.
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