Who ordered the mud?

[Dave Shepard]

We've been tallying the rain and the snow, so I figured we might as well see who's up to their axles in the glop. :D We'll use a five star system.

* Mud, what's mud?
** My truck is dirty again DanGit, woe is me.
*** Shoulda locked the hubs, but we'll make it!
**** Why yes, I do have a tow strap.
*****Anyone here got a D8, a hundred feet of log chain, and a snorkel?


Dave1½* :D

[farmerdoug]

1* here.

I ordered the mud so quite hogging it whoever is doing it, okay.

[Dave Shepard]

I think it's all up in MN, at least there seems to be plenty on top of Gary_C's forwarder (or is that the harvester)


Dave

[Radar67]

3*s here, at least on my place.

[Corley5]

1 here     I'm looking forward to some mud actually.  It's a nice transition phase here in the spring  8) 8) 8)

[WDH]

Definitely 3*'s here.

[Radar67]

Danny, is the ground squishing water like a big ole sponge there too?  :D

[Warbird]

* here.  Hasn't been warm enough, long enough, for much melt to occur. 

[Coon]

DanG it, we're still halfway up our britches in snow and slush.  Will be a few more weeks 'fore I get to play in the mud. :D :D  Guess I gotta have 1* for effort.

[thecfarm]

Only * for now.The drive way is finally showing something besides white.That was only because of the rain we had last night.We did have 3 feet of snow in the woods as of 1 PM yesterday.That's when the rain started.I'm looking forward to some mud.Still have a ways to go.

[stonebroke]

Doesn't it say something when the northerners are looking forward to MUD.

Stonebroke

[WH_Conley]

My mud is real stiff. 7 degrees this morning. :( Sure would like to see some of the liquid stuff.

[jackpine]

Ya'll in Ky. are getting our Wi. leftovers ;D  We were -21°f yesterday morning but back up to 6° this a.m. :D
Supposed to get above freezing here by Tuesday 8)

Bill

[Timburr]

In spite of our latitude, we get very little of the cold stuff.  Any snow inevitably transforms to mud after 5 hours or so.  A 6 month mud season!!?!!

Our current ranking on the gloop scale is 3½*s, so if anyone wants to order their mud, I'll ship some over now.  :D  BIG discounts ARE available if ordered in bulk. ;D ;D

[Dale Hatfield]

We had mud then we got floods. Now we have about 12 inches snow . when thats gone this week. the muds gonna be way deeper than we need. Logging will soon be a bust till spring rains are gone and may flowers are here.Dale

[Norm]

Last weekend it got up to 45°F here and we could barely make it back to our house with 4wh drive. It then decided that winter was not long enough and promptly dropped the temp back into single digits with a blizzard thrown in for good measure. It's snowing lightly out right now and supposed to be cold today but the forecast is that we'll have warm weather by next week. It better hurry, last year we planted corn on the 19th of April, we may need that D8 to pull the planter this year. :D

[woodmills1]

I went from ice to mud in one day.

[DouginUtah]

 
****  >:(

No comment needed.   :D

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

Georgia has been having such an extended drought that our Govenor Purdue had
an official prayer meeting for rain.  Since then it seems that we have been getting
a couple of inches of rain every 5-7 days.  Who woodathunkit?!

On the present job we set up the Peterson with a log deck and bunk system on an area which had
recently had five inches of top soil re-spread over it.  The area is a dirt pit.  A construction
company mines red clay sand for packable fill dirt out of the area and then reclaims it
for planting pines.

The only real good area to set up was near the border of this new top soil.
What a mess.  We dug down to the clay underneath and set short pegs of Northern Red Oak
to serve as foundations to support the Peterson rails and to be the V-notched pegs
which support our log rails (log deck).   One of the guys got his shoes so muddy that he
left them outside overnight, only to find next AM that a dog had carried one off.  Never found it.

This has been one episode where I am thankful that a swinger makes lots of chips.
They sure do help with the mud!
:D
Phil L.

[Faron]

*** to**** here.  Our 4 inches of snow disappeared today.  It was plenty muddy before.  I wish I had time to go take a photo at the White River yesterday.  It is flooding and has closed Highway 257, which happens at least a couple times a year.  I would have liked a photo of the flooded bottomland with the snow down to the water's edge.

[semologger]

Douginutah Have you been mudding in your driveway again? You boys up north are tired of snow I am tired of MUD. Not enough stars for me to put up. We have a 4x4 farm here and the boys sure are having fun with their trucks out there.

[isawlogs]

 
    -* here , aint no site of mud here , not for a while anyhow ....... :-\

[Coon]

The five foot high snow banks in the yard must have shrank in height by about 6 inches yesterday and it was only about +3 C with no breeze.  Going to be a slushy mess here today with temps of +5C or higher.  I am glad my new front driveshaft for the 4x4 will be here today because the snowpack is going to get awefully soft before it disappears. :D :D

[Dave Shepard]

Appoaching 3*'s here. A bit sticky in places, and raining pretty good.


Dave

[Larry]

Not even a 1* here...how do you make mud when your living on a pile of rocks? ;D

Kathy is in north east Kansas where it is a definite 5*...school has been closed because the buses can't run on the country roads.

[Dave Shepard]

First time I've heard of school being called on account of mud!


Dave

[stonebroke]

Dave

I think that Vermont, Before gravel roads, used to have a two week mudseason vacation for schools. It also was handy to have the kids around for maple pickup.

Stonebroke

[Corley5]

My mud is on backorder  :(  No breakup here but the frost laws are still on.  A cold blustery 28F today.  We might see mid thirties tomorrow before getting colder again  :  Must be global warming  :-\

[Roxie]

We've been in the mud for a month now, but we know how to celebrate mud! 

www.padutch.com/mudsales.shtml

[Gary_C]

I think it's all up in MN, at least there seems to be plenty on top of Gary_C's forwarder (or is that the harvester)


Dave

No mud here. Road postings just went on the same day they took off the winter weight increases. Now we are under a winter storm warning so we will see what happens.

What little snow we had is almost gone and the ground is still frozen.

Can't say much about that picture yet but the only mud there was at the bottom of that stoopid little duck pond the owner forgot to tell me about.  >:(

[CLL]

Got stopped today pulling load of pulp cedar, my truck was so muddy that the cop just took my word that the license was ok. I could tell he wasn't interested in getting the hands dirty to  check plates.   :D :D

[Tim L]

My wife called me at work yesterday to tell me a propane truck was buried in our driveway .He was still there when I got home from work. Anita wound up having to use the neighbors truck to go to work because she couldn't get out.Today I piled hemlock slabs in the crater the truck made until the ice melts  (about 8"deep) and a country boy can survive ...

[Quartlow]

IT can't make up its mind here, yesterday it was muddy enough I couldn't back the wood trailer all the way to the boiler, yet at 11PM it was cold enough that it was getting stiff again. Last week it rained enough you couldn't roll the wheelbarrow across the yard, then it snowed some more.

I'm ready for summer!!!

[SwampDonkey]

Well might be a little mud about June or so here. :D

Our local mud season does not last that long in spring. In about a two week period I can drive the road up to the woodlot after the snow and ice melts off. Some areas are worse where the soil is just mostly clay. Clay roads are like jelly when the road wobbles and ripples as you drive along. :D

[isawlogs]

Here is a tuff call to make as to how long the mud is going to last .  There is a lot of snow on the ground yet , but the ground underneath the snow is not frozen  :-\   When it all starts to melt , soon hopefully , it could go away quite quickly and dry up fast .. or could take a month and be knee deep in muck ...... >:(

[Dave Shepard]

We have no snow at present, and little frost. The last couple of days have been windy, and things are drying up nicely. Still time for a good old fashioned nor'easter to cover things up again however.


Dave