mud season is here!

[timberland ts]

Just got the call the roads going to a job I was going to start are posted for no big truck use. Frost is coming out of the ground and everything is ice or mud. Can go cut and stack logs but no trips to the mill for a while. Atleast ive got a few residential jobs lined up.

 

[Blazin]

Same here, I have 5000' of white pine I need to get to the sawmill before the dreaded signs go up. Hopefully it's like last spring when things dried up in a few weeks.

 

[flashhole]

I'm in the Southern Tier of Upstate New York (Owego) - it's muddy here too. I have a lot to split but would like some firm footing. Wife is tearing up the lawn driving on it. My tractor is leaving big muddy ruts. Decided to wait it out.

 

[Blazin]

:msp_ohmy:

 

[timberland ts]

We got 8" of snow yesterday today its 50. My boys went out wheeling mud head to toe.

 

[NOMOREGEARS]

Took my tractor into the woods to pull out firewood and made a mess. 6 inches of slurry over ice.. A dry path not to be found.
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[flashhole]

I got a couple hours of splitting in this weekend here in NY. Too soupy to work in one spot. We need some sunshine.

 

[Blazin]

I got a couple hours of splitting in this weekend here in NY. Too soupy to work in one spot. We need some sunshine.

Yeah...I had to move my operation last weekend to higher ground, the foot of crap we got last week is lingering.

 

[Rounder]

Looks like I get a 5ish week vacation this year. Enjoying every second of it too.

 

[madhatte]

No freeze here. We go straight from dry to mud and back again without much transition.

 

[NOMOREGEARS]

I own a small New Holland TC30DA. Little SOB has done some work on the homestead. I put a homemade brush bar on the bucket and a rear scoop on the back. It makes getting firewood & cleaning up the slash pretty easy. Doesn't leave too much of a foot print when the ground is relatively dry. When the the ground is frozen & with little to no snow, I can get most of my work done in Jan & Feb provided the wind doesn't blow. We have had some major wind storms in the past three years that has left the wood lot a mess. Uprooted trees, blow downs, & snapped off crowns.

 

[timberland ts]

Three truckloads to go and shut down. Pushed my luck town guy came by told me if one more load went down a posted road i was getting a big ticket. I called my trucker and shut it down good thing cops sitting at the end of the road.

 

[jrcat]

We have been shut down for 2 weeks here in chautauqua county. Not just back roads.. the county roads are posted to 10 tons to. The dot is all over the place just waiting to nail someone.

 

[NOMOREGEARS]

Funny the DOT doesn't bother the stone quarry trucks on rte 30 in Schoharie.. They are overloaded.....Guess they pay the piper up front.

 

[jrcat]

There is a local gravel pit here that has around 15 trucks. All of them 10 wheelers hauling 15 to 16 yards all the time. DOT never bothers them .