Habitat out loud

[SD51555]

SD if you don't win the diet contest I'd be shocked. I wonder if you have blue racers snakes your way

I don’t know what those are. I am gonna weigh in tomorrow and see how much I have to do by next week.


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[SD51555]

Part 3 is in the can. It was a cold one this weekend.

https://rumble.com/v73175m-winter-cut-2025-part-3.html

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Nice firewood pile, SD! Nothing like piles of BTU's at the ready. Burning off those lbs. too - all good.

Just a FWIW here ...... I've been stacking the corners of my firewood rows like you did - alternating layers' directions - between 4 ft. and 5 ft. high for years. No blow-outs ever. The basket-weaved method on ends is very stable.

 

[matinc]

SD did you win your contest?

 

[Mortenson]

Nice looking stack. No wide stance while splitting? Careful of those toes.

 

[SD51555]

Winter Cut 2025 - Part 4 is in the can. Weather is hampering progress, but I'm already into bonus projects, so I can't complain too much.

https://rumble.com/v73l2uk-winter-cut-2025-part-4.html

 

[Wind Gypsy]

Did you ever settle on a new chainsaw?

 

[SD51555]

Did you ever settle on a new chainsaw?

Probably getting an Echo 590 with a 20" bar. I'm almost through this season, so probably not gonna happen until next fall.

 

[matinc]

Luv my echo backpack leaf blower

 

[SD51555]

I did some sky busting yesterday. I have found some juneberry on the south side of my property and marked them last spring, so I went to work and opened the canopy. This is the before.

This is the after. I only left that balsam fir and a couple birch.

Lots of firewood made to put sun on two small clumps of JB.

While I was there, I also cleared brush around smaller fir trees and used it to protect them. They are gonna benefit from the extra sun too.

Lotta work got done.

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[Telemark]

Impressive work. Was that all in one day?

 

[SD51555]

Impressive work. Was that all in one day?

Yes sir. Most of what I cut down just got left. I like to leave some small spots like that where deer can’t readily get in there. Also, tag alder rots pretty quick. About 3-4 years and it’s gone. Those little spots can throw up dogwood and jewelweed, especially in that area.

The firewood is staged right along the trail so my neighbor can pull right up to it and haul it away. I am full full on firewood, so I’m helping him get his pile replenished after winter.


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[SD51555]

What may have been my last work day of the winter, had some last cleanup to do. One of my burn piles by the new plot needed to be cleaned up. I’m planning on planting some cedars here in the spring, so the trash had to be dealt with.

I dug a hole to source dirt to make a blind platform. The next step was to backfill the hole with brush and junk wood for safety purposes, and to create a long term duff pit. Some day that might make a super growing medium. I’ll keep filling these holes as they rot down. Cleaning up the downed stuff that didn’t burn was the perfect purpose for it. I’ve got plenty more I can throw in there and will, as you can see in the background. I’d like to see it mounded up 2-3’ above grade.

I also had a couple birch that were collateral damage from the work, so they got salvaged and will go to my neighbors wood pile. I also drug out the birch tops in case the deer want to eat them.

And on my way back in for the day, i pulled all the blind chairs and brought them in so the mice don’t eat them.

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