Season over, retireing saws for the summer

[mboln52000]

Yep, my cutting season is over. I cleared about 1/4 mile of fencerow over the winter and spring, there were 300 some odd trees, mostly pin oak, sassafras, shingle oak, and some sugar maple, and a lot of cherry.

I ended up with one load of decent logs, 10 foot and over, and about 30 pick up loads of fire wood.

I finished cutting down some stumps sat morning as close the ground as i could without getting into the dirt. Man...they were running hot! It was about 80 degrees out.

Finished burning the last brush pile...dang, was thata hot one! It was rotten pin oak, logs, stumps etc...very toasty!

I will pull the saws apart, give them a good cleaning, and have them ready to go for fall. I might even build another 066 out of those spare parts in the corner of the garage, or another 036, thats a real tough saw.

Now its time to start stringing new fence since the line is clear...oh well, whats life without endless projects??

 

[max2cam]

I retired my saws for the summer a while ago already -- except for my building saw which is on 24-7 stand-by.

Now it's hauling in all that nice lumber I milled and truckloads of firewood. Just got the milled lumber inside and stacked before the rains came. My widest boards are 14".

But then I was looking at one of my swamps and started working in there digging out an old outlet to the river and clearing brush in there. A little flow keeps the mosquito hatch down. Very short window of opportunity until fly time when it gets hot and humid and a northern swamp is no place to be.

Actually a useless project in some ways but for some reason very satisfying to be out there digging in the mud.

Yep, projects. What would we do without them?

http://www.atthecreation.com/

 

[Lawn Masters]

I dont retire my saws ever, they're on permanant 24/7 standby for duty, tree trimming a stupid kid with a little poulan who wants to race me, an emergency tree clearing job tree cleanup duty, whatever. I'm on 24/7 standby from now until I quit and retire. Theres just something relaxing for me about holding a saw and felling trees all day long, dont know why but I'm at peace when I'm cutting trees down. must be a native american thing.

 

[JimL]

you guys dont work in the summer?
stand by? im call out guy for the south end of the county for downed trees in the road. I hate windy nights

 

[tony marks]

jim sounds like u set pretty good..
i get my shoulders striatened out,, i may try an see if i can work some kinda deal like that..heck i did a small tree job today.. took me about 4 hrs to do what should have taken 1 and a half. . but at least i was working.

 

[mboln52000]

I am just a part timer. Sawing/logging is only a hobby, part time thing for me. Sometimes I do it for just for fun, as in gathering logs for my wood projects, or sometimes i am busy clearing out a spot of woods or fencerows. This year was mostly fencerow work. But, I did manage save a couple of nice Percimon logs. I do my cutting in the fall/winter.