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- February 16, 2011 at 11:29 am #42458
Donn Hewes
KeymasterAfter more than a month of trying to keep a trail open to the woods, and very little logging, we finally pulled a few good logs yesterday. I kind of wasted a lot of time keeping the trail open as one small section out in the open field is totally hopeless at this point anyway. Oh well, I have been teaching Chris Olliges to drive horses and it got the teams out every few days. We sat on a big tractor tire ant that made a really nice trail in the woods.
Chad Vogel has come to visit for a few days, and together we will take out a few of the more troublesome Ash. I have modified my winter arch about three times so far. Lowered the pivot point, made the arch taller, made the arch shorter, etc. Yesterday it was handling pretty well. Here are a few pictures from yesterday. I will try to add a picture of our logs after the weekend.
February 16, 2011 at 11:40 am #65785Does’ Leap
ParticipantDonn:
Looks great. Thanks for the pictures. I gave up bullin’ (as Carl calls it) until we ge more snow melt. We have over 3′ on the ground here. What are you going to do with the ash?
George
February 16, 2011 at 12:51 pm #65788Tim Harrigan
Participant@Does’ Leap 24967 wrote:
Donn:
What are you going to do with the ash?
George
Do you have EAB killing your ash trees yet?
February 16, 2011 at 12:56 pm #65786KeymasterNo Ash borer yet, but they are getting closer. My feeling is, I have a lot of big ash, some past maturity and others with a variety of diseases and damage. I might as well start to take it out. I will still have some so I will be watching the ash borer for years. I plan to have some milled for a couple building projects I have in mind for this year. I will also mill some into 5/4 just to air dry. If I hit some really good logs I would consider selling some, I don’t expect many veneer logs.
February 16, 2011 at 11:38 pm #65789mink
Participanti see your 2 dogs like the horses too, funny thing how dogs like to go along, my little dog likes my horses too…….mink
February 17, 2011 at 1:00 am #65787KeymasterA few years ago I would never have had dogs in the woods with me like that. I all ways tried to keep the dogs away while I was working horses and mules. trying to protect everyone and control everything. Now I am much more willing to ignore them, and the horses, adaptable animals that they are, follow my lead. Sometimes the dogs still get too under foot, and then I send them home. That is one of the few tricks they know.
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