Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[SS396driver]

I hate mud season . My upper field will be like this till mid June and then it’ll still be wet because of the springs . I shouldn’t complain my drinking water comes out of the mountain into a cistern and runs 24/7 with the overflow going into the stream I have no well, my nieghbors well is over 400 feet and he has to conserve water.

Had to use the backhoe to pull myself out . All to get my splitter but I moved some two year old splits from the pile to the stacking area

 

[rwoods]

Well damn I need to get more pallets . Used over 25 on the new stacks these should last a while all pressure treated and has 5/4 decking boards . Still have 5 cord sitting on old ones but as soon as I step on the slats they break . Found some cherry and HVBW at the bottom of one the rounds piles . So far I have a little bit over 21 cord stacked . And I estimate 10 in rounds and logs . I need to get it bucked split and stacked . Promised the wife I wouldn’t get more till I had the area cleaned up. And a buddy called last night seems his sister had 3 white oaks come down the other night and needs a ton of ash taken down .
Nice thing is I leave some split wood for her and her boys clean up the brush
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Explain to your wife that standing dead ash get more dangerous every day so you need to take a short break from the clean up. I presume she already knows that it makes great firewood and there will be little ash to be had soon.

Ron

 

[mountainguyed67]

I hate mud season .

We have very little mud at our place, not much water stands because we’re on a hill. This was the morning after a rain a couple years ago. I went back and raked the mud back into the tracks before it dried. I didn’t get stuck. When I couldn’t make it up the hill, I just went back down the hill. I’ll get chains for the machine one of these days, I see loggers in pictures and videos use them without mud or snow.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

adding this bucket full scrounged from storm drops yesterday... headed out today to get some more...oak & pecan in pix, oak today

 

[SS396driver]

Explain to your wife that standing dead ash get more dangerous every day so you need to take a short break from the clean up. I presume she already knows that it makes great firewood and there will be little ash to be had soon.

Ron

It’s not going anywhere pretty much in a field so no danger them dropping

 

[SS396driver]

Hasn’t rained in a week but the ruts fill right up. I think this oak and hickory are aged enough

 

[rwoods]

It’s not going anywhere pretty much in a field so no danger them dropping

I was referring to the danger to you if you are going to fell them.

Ron

 

[SS396driver]

I was referring to the danger to you if you are going to fell them.

Ron

Ohh . Don’t think a week or two will make them any worse . But thanks for the concern

 

[SS396driver]

Wife says I overload my equipment. I don’t think so the more weight on the wheels the better right?! Specially the rears on the two wheel quad but sometimes it feels like this

 

[JimR]

Explain to your wife that standing dead ash get more dangerous every day so you need to take a short break from the clean up. I presume she already knows that it makes great firewood and there will be little ash to be had soon.

Ron

I tell that to my wife everytime I drop another one that is either dead or on it's way to being dead. We got hit by Ash blight that is killing all of ours. No EAB in them yet.

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Wife says I overload my equipment. I don’t think so the more weight on the wheels the better right?! Specially the rears on the two wheel quad but sometimes it feels like this View attachment 975759View attachment 975760

Is that a Kodiak 400 you got there?

 

[SS396driver]

Is that a Kodiak 400 you got there?

Yup great machine

 

[woodchuckcanuck]

Yup great machine

I have the same one. Got it in 2006. Mostly for plowing snow in the driveway and running around the property. It's a beast. Original tires. Original brakes. Has about 600 miles on it.

 

[SS396driver]

I have the same one. Got it in 2006. Mostly for plowing snow in the driveway and running around the property. It's a beast. Original tires. Original brakes. Has about 600 miles on it.View attachment 975973

Mine has about 200 miles on it . Everything is original on mine too but I do need to change the right front tire or tube it sidewalls are dry rotted and it leaks down .

 

[mountainguyed67]

Yup great machine

Nice quad.

 

[Billhook]

What brand name splitter is that?

 

[Philbert]

Nice to see some other ideas for splitter designs.

Philbert

 

[Billhook]

Nice to see some other ideas for splitter designs.

Philbert

https://www.blackhorsedesigns.com/about-us
I see they have sold the design to wood Mizer

 

[SS396driver]

Well went from mud back to frozen .

 

[RK-NL]

I see all that mud and I've been pretty blessed with the weather here. This was last week at my brother's property. We're expecting snow tonight, so it'll be a while before I can cut again tho.