Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
A bunch of the WI/MN Arboristsite guys got together this morning to help cut some wood for Interfaith Caregivers, a local charity who's main focus is on helping the elderly live out their lives in their homes, but has "branched" out into supplying firewood as part of their work.
I can't remember who donated the logs, hopefully the nice guy from Interfaith will jump on here and explain the background better, he was on here yesterday reading about us nutcases planning to come up.
Anyway, this has been one of Grandpatractor and HeavyFuel's projects for a few years, and this year WetGunPowder, Woodyman, Thorcw, and grandpatractor and HeavyFuel's sons, as well as Bob from the local repair shop, Compete Automotive in Dresser (not yet a member here that I know of) and myself made the trip up to Danbury, WI for a morning of cutting. There were also about as many locals that may or may not be members here (if you are, chime in), up there.
When we got there, the local guys had a start, and prior work had taken the 3 10 cord loads down to about 25. With 18 guys, and an estimated 40 or so chainsaws, plus Grandpatractor's JD skidloader with grapple, we made molehills out of mountains in good time. JD and Heavy Fuel took turns on the skid, moving logs from the pile to about a half dozen cutting locations, where chips flew in all directions. A little less than 4 hours later, 26 cords were blocked up, and a start on splitting. I understand that some "Community Service" help will be doing a LOT of splitting up there in the near future, so if you dislike swinging a maul, stay out of trouble in Burnett Co, WI!
Here is a link to the Polk county chapter of Interfaith, a quick search didn't find a site for Burnett: Interfaith Caregivers Props also to the Log Cabin Store in Danbury WI for lunch as well. If you're ever up that way, make sure to stop in. Good food and the store has everything from trinkets for the Missus to guns! Log Cabin Store and Eatery. I'll also recommend the breakfast at the Main Street Cafe in Siren, WI where most of us met up for a cheap, big breakfast.
We'll get started on the pics, JD and Woody have more to share as well. I'll try to caption them as best as possible, but I'm bad at matching faces and names.
Here's the setup, first 10 cords in the foreground, the other pile of logs kind of hidden behind the snow covered mound of firewood, 15+ cords back there:
The driveway was icy at first, but the steel tracks on the loader fixed that for us:
Just getting going good, note the ice problem is going away:
Grandpatractor spent a bunch of quality time on the vise, keeping chains sharp for several guys:
Here's some of the local guys working on the back pile:
Union Break!
Here's why, the fellow from Interfaith's wife was up real early this morning baking some goodies for us:
Getting back at it, notice that the front semi load is gone already, this was maybe an hour and a half or so of cutting!
Stay tuned, back with more in a bit!
I can't remember who donated the logs, hopefully the nice guy from Interfaith will jump on here and explain the background better, he was on here yesterday reading about us nutcases planning to come up.
Anyway, this has been one of Grandpatractor and HeavyFuel's projects for a few years, and this year WetGunPowder, Woodyman, Thorcw, and grandpatractor and HeavyFuel's sons, as well as Bob from the local repair shop, Compete Automotive in Dresser (not yet a member here that I know of) and myself made the trip up to Danbury, WI for a morning of cutting. There were also about as many locals that may or may not be members here (if you are, chime in), up there.
When we got there, the local guys had a start, and prior work had taken the 3 10 cord loads down to about 25. With 18 guys, and an estimated 40 or so chainsaws, plus Grandpatractor's JD skidloader with grapple, we made molehills out of mountains in good time. JD and Heavy Fuel took turns on the skid, moving logs from the pile to about a half dozen cutting locations, where chips flew in all directions. A little less than 4 hours later, 26 cords were blocked up, and a start on splitting. I understand that some "Community Service" help will be doing a LOT of splitting up there in the near future, so if you dislike swinging a maul, stay out of trouble in Burnett Co, WI!
Here is a link to the Polk county chapter of Interfaith, a quick search didn't find a site for Burnett: Interfaith Caregivers Props also to the Log Cabin Store in Danbury WI for lunch as well. If you're ever up that way, make sure to stop in. Good food and the store has everything from trinkets for the Missus to guns! Log Cabin Store and Eatery. I'll also recommend the breakfast at the Main Street Cafe in Siren, WI where most of us met up for a cheap, big breakfast.
We'll get started on the pics, JD and Woody have more to share as well. I'll try to caption them as best as possible, but I'm bad at matching faces and names.
Here's the setup, first 10 cords in the foreground, the other pile of logs kind of hidden behind the snow covered mound of firewood, 15+ cords back there:
The driveway was icy at first, but the steel tracks on the loader fixed that for us:
Just getting going good, note the ice problem is going away:
Grandpatractor spent a bunch of quality time on the vise, keeping chains sharp for several guys:
Here's some of the local guys working on the back pile:
Union Break!
Here's why, the fellow from Interfaith's wife was up real early this morning baking some goodies for us:
Getting back at it, notice that the front semi load is gone already, this was maybe an hour and a half or so of cutting!
Stay tuned, back with more in a bit!
