clawmute
ArboristSite Operative
I managed to get four loads of good fire wood out of the bottom before high water hit here in last Saturday's monsoon in the Ouachita Mountain foothills east of Hot Springs. Two loads of split Hickory and two loads of Ash, about a cord & a half or so. Stuck my 4wd Kubota on the first load in an old channel and had to dump the load to get out. It was iffy even then. Had the backhoe with splitter on and it was all right down in the mud.
Hate that cold feeling in the pit of your stomach - like you swallowed a big chunk of ice- when you get your hiney in a crack and don't know if you can pry it loose! Got across the old channel and reloaded the wood, then hauled it and 3 more loads. It would have been in Louisiana by now. Mainly I got the tractor out.
My deerstand below the house in the bottom
There's a nice 1.5 ac field in here that I cleared over the last few years. Gets a good soaking every so often! A large hickory I've been cutting up/splitting. Maybe those chunks (center of photo) will stick around! About 20 yards beyond those chunks I had a cord of split Hickory that I got out in the nick of time.
Hate that cold feeling in the pit of your stomach - like you swallowed a big chunk of ice- when you get your hiney in a crack and don't know if you can pry it loose! Got across the old channel and reloaded the wood, then hauled it and 3 more loads. It would have been in Louisiana by now. Mainly I got the tractor out.
My deerstand below the house in the bottom
There's a nice 1.5 ac field in here that I cleared over the last few years. Gets a good soaking every so often! A large hickory I've been cutting up/splitting. Maybe those chunks (center of photo) will stick around! About 20 yards beyond those chunks I had a cord of split Hickory that I got out in the nick of time.
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