Forest play time! 🙂 A pictorial.

[ebinmaine 78,327]

Had some great quality SEAT TIME this evening. 

One of several reasons we're clearing the forest from beside the house 🏠 is to get the tractors over there to harvest firewood. 

I figured I'd start the experimentation with pathways today. 

It... Is...  ROUGH !!... over there. Wow.  

 

Rocks 🪨.  Sticks. Holes 🕳.  Pits. Highs. Lows. Tree stumps galore.  

 

I started out by dropping the Boss splitter off the back off my 1974 C160-8 Cinnamon Horse and backing the splitter in the barn. 

Then had to move this 5 x 8 utility trailer full of cull/junk vinyl boards outta the path.  This is the leftovers of a large pile we bought years ago to redo the trim on the house. Project done. These will go to the Transfer Station when I get time. 

 

 

I took a trailerless solo cruise over to scope out the area. 

 

 

Keep in mind this was a thick stand of hemlock and beech just weeks ago!

 

 

Next I hitched up to the black dump trailer to fetch out some 14" hemlock I'd cut for the outdoor fire pit and/or indoor kindling. Brought that up out to the splitting pile. 

 

 

Then went and got the pole trailer I rebuilt last year. 

Put that to great use today! 

 

Note here how the angle of the trailer is in comparison to the tractor.  

 

 

😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

 

 

This is a pile of hemlock 5" - 8" diameter by 6 - 10 ft length that Trina wanted saved for garden border logs. The trailer is approximately 6 feet between the poles.  

 

 

In this picture my destination is directly over the top of the trailer way out in the clearing.

Ain't no short path there yet.  

I had to go up a wicked hill out to the front of the house, across the front of the barn, down around beside the barn... and follow the path around to the garden. 

 

Probably a 400 or 500 foot drive to get here. Give or take....

 

 

Got everything unloaded and put away and the machines are settin a spell resting up.  

 

 

 

Great workout! 

Lots accomplished in a short time.  

 

 

 

 

 

[ebinmaine 78,327]

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[Sparky-(Admin) 25,041]

That log haulin trailer is slick! 

[ebinmaine 78,327]

7 hours ago, Sparky said:

That log haulin trailer is slick! 

 

 

I'm particularly happy with this trailer.

I originally built it 8 or 10 years ago as an experiment. 
ALL RECYCLED old school PT.

 

Dismantled deck, posts & beams. 
Kinda set it aside for a few years because we changed our wood collection methods. 

Last year decided to rebuild and strengthen it. 
 

[Retired Wrencher 6,581]

10 hours ago, ebinmaine said:

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Wow Eric looks like you are having to way much fun there bud. Nothing like a big 16 to get the job done right.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 2 minutes ago by Retired Wrencher