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Here's the elm stump again that I dug out and burned.

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Also burned all the brush from all the trees in this area :blob2:.
Yeah, some of the brush was pretty big :laugh:.
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Here's what that pile looked like Sunday morning. I'll have to get a new pic, haven't seen it since, using the other driveway.
Found a good use for the beasty splitting maul!

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Anyone need some red oak, gonna be scrounging a bit up today :chainsaw:.
Oh yeah, James, I'm sorry about burning that whole elm. Well, not really, but that's the best way for me to deal with it, and you and Rob never came to pick it up so...
How could you waste HVE? Bad chipper, bad! :drinkingcoffee:
 
Here's the elm stump again that I dug out and burned.

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Also burned all the brush from all the trees in this area :blob2:.
Yeah, some of the brush was pretty big :laugh:.
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Here's what that pile looked like Sunday morning. I'll have to get a new pic, haven't seen it since, using the other driveway.
Found a good use for the beasty splitting maul!

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Ah! The horror of it all! Burning that nice Red Elm log. Did I say, I wish I lived closer (yes I believe I did)?
 
Well, I've been freaking out on the area in front of the barn :oops:. There were a few black locust that had the root plates lifting, so they needed to go. Well if I dropped a few trees in the way, I could encourage them to come down fairly easy, if not, there wasn't much room to drop them. So...
It started out looking like this after the storm.

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Then by last Thursday it looked like this.

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Here it is Sunday morning. Just need to hit it with a power rake and then spread some seed.

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Nice job. I know the feeling about cleanup work. I have been doing it for years.
 
Won't be long now, and my grandson will be getting a new truck to add to his fleet, and this one has nice shiny hubcaps,

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I'm getting tired of truck making, I'm thinking next time I'll make him something different.

SR
 
Won't be long now, and my grandson will be getting a new truck to add to his fleet, and this one has nice shiny hubcaps,

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I'm getting tired of truck making, I'm thinking next time I'll make him something different.

SR
My Uncle Kenny made cars like those. Little Deuce Coupe was my favorite.
 
Just took the tape off the posts and dropped an Ash and a small Pine before they got the fence. Last few years I cut a standing dead pine and buck off short pieces between the knot rings to split for kindling. So that's done, a good size wheelbarrowful split to kindling size.
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It's raining (a bit) now, the pasture will take anything it can get, even this late in the year.
 
Nice job. I know the feeling about cleanup work. I have been doing it for years.
Thanks. I guess I'm starting to get tired of making everyone else's place look great but my own :(.
This morning I moved the elm logs out of the bonfire area, then went an made 3 people's places look real nice. When I came back I had a bite to eat, then removed and spread the ash on the back top of the pond dam. Lots of charcoal in there, guessing because the dirt falling off the stump stopped the wood from burning and the big chunks of coals were made into charcoal.
Then went a bid a removal. It's a decent sized double trunk mulberry, it just lost a pretty big branch in the storm.
After that I cleaned the ash from.all that burning out of the front. I think it looks pretty good, but I know it will look better once I get a power rake In there.

Then I burned all the brush from today, the red oak will we used/ sold for firewood.
14' and a 20' trailer load of brush today, all gone now.
Hope you all had productive days too.

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G'day fellers,

Having taken what I imagine Dr H-Ranch's advice would have been, I went out scrounging again this morning. Knew about this Ugly Log TM .

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Broad leaf peppermint. Mostly solid, had a bit of punk at a branch stub. Also on a side slope which was a bit of a pain.

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Had an escapee but he didn't stay free for long.

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Got it all cut up. I hit dirt at one point and the dulled chain started curving a bit in the cut.

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Filled the ute with plenty left over.

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Also picked up a trailer load of bonfire poles and junk. I'm pretty keen to keep my farm privileges here so I'm doing extra clean-up, not just the downed trees I'm cutting up.

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Scrounge on :rock:
 
Won't be long now, and my grandson will be getting a new truck to add to his fleet, and this one has nice shiny hubcaps,

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I'm getting tired of truck making, I'm thinking next time I'll make him something different.

SR
Looks like a F350 Ford flatbed, make him a boat.
 

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