Nuzzy
Trail Gnome
Well, I knew this point would come this winter... Gonna have to start mixing in a good bit of green wood 
I was traveling most of last year for work and unfortunately didn't have enough time at home to get ALL the wood we'd need this year. Oh well. We may end up just *cringe* buying a cord or two of seasoned wood to finish off the season, but in the time being I decided the onset of our arctic blast was a great time to head back in the woods.
When the tree falls and disappears in the snow, you know it's going to be a loooong day
But I still got it all marked with the mingo and cut up without any problems.
The woods behind our house could use some management (read thinning). So I've been taking selective trees to open up for better growth in others. What we have now is a lot of relatively thin, tall hardwoods without any branches until the very top. This was prolly a 12-14"er. Not my best stump, but it was leaning a good bit and when it started to go I didn't feel like hanging around to finish evening my hinge.
Walking around I'd sink to my knees, so out came the snowshoes for most of the day. And when I didn't feel like carrying the tree out piece by piece, this toboggan came in handy!
Still was a lot of freakin effort though!!
Well, after shoveling a couple feet of snow off our storm doors I was able to open up the easy throwing path to the basement. Split some of the rounds with the all powerful Fiskars and left others to burn whole in all their creosotey goodness. Guess we'll be cleaning the chimney more and trying to have some hotter fires at least once a day in the wood furnace while we limp through this green crap. At least I can say never again will we find ourselves in this position!
Sorry for the cell phone pics.
I was traveling most of last year for work and unfortunately didn't have enough time at home to get ALL the wood we'd need this year. Oh well. We may end up just *cringe* buying a cord or two of seasoned wood to finish off the season, but in the time being I decided the onset of our arctic blast was a great time to head back in the woods.
When the tree falls and disappears in the snow, you know it's going to be a loooong day
But I still got it all marked with the mingo and cut up without any problems.
The woods behind our house could use some management (read thinning). So I've been taking selective trees to open up for better growth in others. What we have now is a lot of relatively thin, tall hardwoods without any branches until the very top. This was prolly a 12-14"er. Not my best stump, but it was leaning a good bit and when it started to go I didn't feel like hanging around to finish evening my hinge.
Walking around I'd sink to my knees, so out came the snowshoes for most of the day. And when I didn't feel like carrying the tree out piece by piece, this toboggan came in handy!
Still was a lot of freakin effort though!!
Well, after shoveling a couple feet of snow off our storm doors I was able to open up the easy throwing path to the basement. Split some of the rounds with the all powerful Fiskars and left others to burn whole in all their creosotey goodness. Guess we'll be cleaning the chimney more and trying to have some hotter fires at least once a day in the wood furnace while we limp through this green crap. At least I can say never again will we find ourselves in this position!
Sorry for the cell phone pics.
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