The cold weather is starting to break finally. It was 24 yesterday afternoon when I went out to play. My 3:30pm 22" Ash tree yesterday. The base got bucked up with the 455 Rancher while I bucked up the upper section with the newly rebuilt 350. Both chains are sharpened just right that I can let the saws just cut by themselves right thru the logs. I believe that I have the rakers set at .035 on the 350. With 7" of snow and ice I can cut right thru the logs without hitting the ground.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Tubless lol ,
Taps are dry nothing in the buckets . Hopefully it will warm up a bit next week . I’m afraid we will go from below freezing to 50s 
Did you give the tongue test like a 9 volt
. Hope you get it figured out.
Thanks for the tag, I needed that
. Been a while since I even looked at one of mine 
. The last time I did I sharpened up 3 and set the rakers. I have a nice sized cherry I should probably drop before we get totally thawed out here. Bummer I forgot to take care of it when I had the lift here last fall, I could have gotten the big hanger out of it and stripped it to the stem. Oh well, I'll get it soon enough.
husqvarna257
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Driveway is covered with thick ice. I went to the steep incline to put down ice melt and parked it. As i scooped out ice melt the tractor passed by me sliding down even with chains. I moved out of the way and waited till it stopped. All the melt down just turns into fresh ice in the morning.
I scraped off all the most recent snow yesterday morning(looked about like yours) knowing we were going to be getting full sun, 90% of it was dry by the end of the day, now about 95% is dry. Because we are in the river valley, all the cold air off the snow comes downhill to our place and turns any moisture back into ice soon as the sun goes below the trees(which is quite early).
What model Kubota is that. Mine are snuggling in my wife parking spot in the barn, either of them has more value than the most valuable two vehicles, so they sleep inside whenever possible. There is plenty of space in main bay of the barn for them and a couple cars, but I have it warmed up to 52 in there and I figured I's just leave the door shut.
Even though its supposed to be warming up above freezing, we still have a ways to go before the white stuff is gone here.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
I was out scraping the ice off my driveway too today
Not much fun, but it was a good day to do it
Not much fun, but it was a good day to do it
Used the older snowmobile to keep the speed in check, he only ran into a couple trees. 41 degrees is crazy for February.
My splitting area and stockpiling is 200 yards away across the street from house. It is much easier for me to just move a tote over to the house when needed.
I cheated that last storm. I didn't move the snow before the rains came. The next day we had an inch of ice on top of 5" of snow. I used my tractor bucket to scrape the snow and ice off my driveway. By 2pm the remaining powder on my driveway was all melted.
Worked on cleaning up the staging area for where we will be putting all the wood from the tops we're cutting. The pile is from 1 white oak top. Only 49 tops to go.. Gonna try and separate by species of oak and other stuff. IE, hickory,cherry,maple.
Sorry for the derail from other stuff.
Sorry for the derail from other stuff.
Got paid for doing about 15 minutes worth of work on a guys saw Friday. Didn't really do anything but show him how to start it. 
You are going to amass an awesome pile of wood from those trees if they are all like this Oak. Three years ago my pile had just over 50 cord in it.Worked on cleaning up the staging area for where we will be putting all the wood from the tops we're cutting. The pile is from 1 white oak top. Only 49 tops to go.. Gonna try and separate by species of oak and other stuff. IE, hickory,cherry,maple.
Sorry for the derail from other stuff.
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The logger told2 me that from the size of these trees he figured about 2 cord per top. Plus all the other trees that were collateral damage and butts they left we should be in the 200 cord+ range.
How many now?
At one time I had a pretty big pile, but that's been gone for yrs now. I sold a lot of it off, but pulled a little out for myself when needed too.
This was after a lot had been sold off the end. I was doing quite bit of tree work that yr, after that I tried not to brias much wood home lol.
This was taken from where the pole barn is now, the fall before I cleared the site for it, 2016. Time flies...
It eventually went all the way to the large multi-stem elm on the left and wrapped around it.
Better buy some chains.
Probably 40-50 chains here now.
Looks like it’s going to be a disappointing maple syrup season. Buckets are bone dry I’m usually on the second boil by now with a few gallons canned . If it warms up to fast the buds will pop on the trees and the season will be over
Hoarder lol
