Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[chipper1]

Thought you guys might enjoy this, had a juvenile eagle on the back of the pond project eating the woodchuck that the boy shot last week, proud of him . This is the same location I shot the coyote last yr, we put the woodchuck out there to see if we could get another yote to stop by.
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The eagle had some of the locals a bit confused as they wanted to walk thru, but no access was given.
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This guy was out there a couple days later.
At least that's when we got him on the camera, I watched a turkey vulture on the woodchuck yesterday for 10min and the camera never took one picture/video.
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Had these critters out there last night, a deer walked thru between these two pics.

 

[Squareground3691]

It's been too long since I've dropped some serious(to me) trees. Couple nice ash that will be made into 5/4 2x6s for the bed of my dually.View attachment 1248364View attachment 1248365View attachment 1248366Gotta say, I love the square ground chain and the 24" bar on the MS400!

Ur square file should be there Monday according to tracking buddy , get ready lol ,you might like of these to

 

[chipper1]

Ur square file should be there Monday according to tracking buddy , get ready lol ,you might like of these to View attachment 1248599

I haven't even used my chain vise yet . Need to get it out of the basement and into the barn. Sure it makes hand filing a pleasure.

 

[Squareground3691]

I haven't even used my chain vise yet . Need to get it out of the basement and into the barn. Sure it makes hand filing a pleasure.

Can’t wait to see ur shop setup, gonna be great, get those square grinders going,the end feature clamp makes square filing much easier,all the chain out of the way except the tooth ur filing ,

 

[SS396driver]

Ur square file should be there Monday according to tracking buddy , get ready lol ,you might like of these to View attachment 1248599

What brand is that ?

 

[Squareground3691]

Guy Mike makes them , got it on OPE [email protected] is his email. , not sure he’s in this forum

 

[Squareground3691]

Time to restock,

 

[jblnut]

Cut us some fence line junk today.


Lots of low btu stuff in here but it burns better than snowballs so it’ll get run through the boiler !!


Lots of leaners. The MS200 saw a lot of run time today. Sure do enjoy this little beast.


Not sure if this technique has an actual name but it works great on leaners. Make your face cut, bore in and work back. Prevents barber chairs quite well. I was a bit skinny on the face cut on this one but it popped right off once severed.

 

[SS396driver]

Guy Mike makes them , got it on OPE [email protected] is his email. , not sure he’s in this forum

Thanks

 

[Haywire]

Sunday Spruce

 

[mountainguyed67]

Yes, in my mind it works like that too... ONLY 27 projects going.

Sounds like you and I are neck and neck.

 

[mountainguyed67]

The Forest Service finally let my volunteer organization go check access to our adopted foot trail along the river. They gave me a permit to be in a closed area, this is the first they would allow it. Some might remember we had a crazy winter two years back, that road had been impassable ever since. A crew cleared it two months ago, but the FS closed it again ahead of forecast storms, in anticipation of more landslides. Sure enough, more rocks and dirt did come down. Me and one other went in and worked on the road yesterday. We worked on the slide area enough to drive through. Most of the rocks were small enough that we could throw them to the side or carry them. Quite a few we were able to roll out of the way. About 5 or 6 rocks were too big for the two of us to move any distance. We used a chain to drag them behind my Travelall one at a time, almost to the small creek. The road is wide there and a sharp turn, so we could get the rocks to the edge of the road.



The hillside above the big slide still looks unstable and I expect more rock and mud to come down in a good rain. That would trap people in there, and is the reason for the closure.



Once the big slide was passable, we drove up to the end for a quick look. On the way back we moved small rocks from a few small slides and further trimmed 4 trees that were still partially in the road .




There was also a couple little mud holes. Those tracks are ours, no one else had been through.



Our volunteers have been eager to get in there, maybe next weekend we can start on the foot trail.

 

[farmer steve]

The Forest Service finally let my volunteer organization go check access to our adopted foot trail along the river. They gave me a permit to be in a closed area, this is the first they would allow it. Some might remember we had a crazy winter two years back, that road had been impassable ever since. A crew cleared it two months ago, but the FS closed it again ahead of forecast storms, in anticipation of more landslides. Sure enough, more rocks and dirt did come down. Me and one other went in and worked on the road yesterday. We worked on the slide area enough to drive through. Most of the rocks were small enough that we could throw them to the side or carry them. Quite a few we were able to roll out of the way. About 5 or 6 rocks were too big for the two of us to move any distance. We used a chain to drag them behind my Travelall one at a time, almost to the small creek. The road is wide there and a sharp turn, so we could get the rocks to the edge of the road. The hillside above the big slide still looks unstable and I expect more rock and mud to come down in a good rain.

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Once the big slide was passable, we drove up to the end for a quick look. On the way back we moved small rocks from a few small slides and further trimmed 4 trees that were still partially in the road .

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There was also a couple little mud holes. Those tracks are ours, no one else had been through.

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Our volunteers have been eager to get in there, maybe next weekend.

Beautiful country.

 

[MustangMike]

I am not able to open his attachments.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Beautiful country.

It is. It was a great day, felt good to get out there and see the views.

 

[mountainguyed67]

I am not able to open his attachments.

Refresh your page, I fixed them.

 

[JimR]

Today in the mud I got in the rest of the bucked up Ash trees. With an extra hour to play I decided to drop another good sized Ash tree. This one is 27" across. I used my new to me 572XP. All I can say is this is my new felling saw. It cuts fast. I have the bar and chain setup on it from my 372XP. I do think that it is faster than my OE 372XP. I'm hoping that the ground will freeze tonight so I can pull the rest of the tree out of this area tomorrow and get it bucked up.

 

[sean donato]

this is one of the trees I went to war with the neighbor about years ago. Finally came over in the wind today. The neighbors daughter and wife stopped by when we were getting the tree (s, technically 2 trees.) off the roof.
Imagine this, now I magically have permission to take all the trees down that border my house on their property. Insurance puke is supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Should be interesting.
The little roof took the bulk of the damage, 5 or 6 solar panels were broken, and the siding on the opposite side of the house got damaged and the front of the wife's car got dinged and scratched up pretty good.

 

[Lee192233]

this is one of the trees I went to war with the neighbor about years ago. Finally came over in the wind today. The neighbors daughter and wife stopped by when we were getting the tree (s, technically 2 trees.) off the roof.
Imagine this, now I magically have permission to take all the trees down that border my house on their property. Insurance puke is supposed to stop by tomorrow morning. Should be interesting.
The little roof took the bulk of the damage, 5 or 6 solar panels were broken, and the siding on the opposite side of the house got damaged and the front of the wife's car got dinged and scratched up pretty good.

Unbelievable they wouldn't allow you to take it down. Blows my mind that someone would be so stubborn about a dead tree.

 

[Lee192233]

Ur square file should be there Monday according to tracking buddy , get ready lol ,you might like of these to View attachment 1248599

Awesome and thank you! Just what my wife wanted, me spending more time in the shop.