Yesterday's cutting pics.
I had a good day going yesterday, until I got a call in the middle of the afternoon and got talked into going to the tavern, so now after I get done posting pics for y'all, I have to go back after one that I should have gotten yesterday. The cold beer was welcome after a bit of hard work, though.
First things first, you gotta get to the woods. I strapped the camera down on the dashboard and shot a little wheeling video for ya, it's not so much the snow depth as it is the fact that it's "sugar snow", called that because the texture's about the same, it's been on the ground a long time, and it's now very powdery and slick. Upcoming country singer Jason Brown from Iowa in the CD player:
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Pic of the saws and stuff ready for cutting:
I had a bunch of small ironwoods to clear out, I think there were 5 total. Here's the aftermath of the first 3:
The other two. I had some trouble here, with them hanging up in the edge of the woods brush. Nothing serious, just made for slow cutting and a lot of dragging it out of there piece by piece:
For some reason the splitter tractor had a dead battery, so I put the battery charger to work while I was cutting:
Finally got all the little stuff loaded, and ready to split the bigger stuff. I don't let much ironwood go to the brushpile, it's too good of wood for that, right up there with hedge and locust on the btu charts.
To be continued.