Office views

[cutterboy]

My office for some days this winter as I cut along the edge of this field.

[SwampDonkey]

Snow don't look bad down that way. Our fields here are so wind swept that most snow is close to the woods or in people's yards. I can see bare grass in these big fields around here. Smaller more protected fields have no bare spots.

[Magicman]

That looks very inviting Cutter. 

[cutterboy]

Snow don't look bad down that way. 

SD, those pictures were taken a week ago before the last storm. Everything is iced up now. I haven't been up there since the storm but hope to tomorrow or Monday if my tractor can slip-slide it's way to the field.

[arojay]

This will be my office window for the next 3 weeks-

Well, at least it wasn't built by Mack...

[newoodguy78]

This is a great thread ,glad to see it bumped to the top.
Nice pictures Cutter keep up the good work 

[Old Greenhorn]

I haven't posted here in a while but this morning it was so nice and I was in a (rare) open area.


Harvesting logs again. I took 3 trees and filled the SxS.

[leeroyjd]

Cutting some decent White Pine 15 minutes from home.
Swore I'd never cut pulp by hand again but it's two small lots and looks much better cleaned up. At least it isn't 8' pulp like last time!

[cutterboy]

My office today was in a part of my woods with a small stream. I call it a brook, you might call it a creek. Anyway it is a nice spot and I love to hear the water running although I mostly hear my chainsaw. I was cutting up a black birch that blew over this past winter.





   Cutter

[thecfarm]

Like that skidder!!!
Yes,a brook like that does sound good.
The   is the noise maker.

[Old Greenhorn]

It doesn't get much better than that Cutter! It's gotta be really nice to have land that is flat and smooth enough to get in there with a cub cadet. I envy you for that.
 I was in a similar spot today, but up a hill and no water around, still it was pretty and most enjoyable. But access requires a 4 WD machine. I don't even know if I can get up or over some of those steep rough spots with my Mule, but now that I have the trail cleared mostly out, I will probably give it a try at some point.
 Not much better than a day in the woods getting things done. That reminds me, it is time for me to get started on my firewood.

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, we always call them brooks up here to. I have a brook the beavers took over, it crosses a corner on my woodlot. When we cut wood in there 30 years ago, there was big old cedar and big for black ash growing there and no brook at all. You could cross there with a pickup in the spot the beavers have a dam and lodge. It's not even marked on a map as a brook. It does feed a brook further down, which then crosses into Maine and into the Prestile. Over here in NB the government calls it the Big Presque Isle, but the older folks I grew up with used the name from Maine as it starts near Fort Fairfield, Maine in Christine Lake. Where have I heard two different names for a water body before? 

[leeroyjd]

Storm cleanup from straight wind damage. Some big white pines. Blow downs and snags. Forwarder got this one on and off. 12'.Two more feet would've been a test for sure.Ill have to measure the diameter.

[SwampDonkey]

Musta been some wind to knock that pine down. I've worked in the wind with a clearing saw under big pines that had been left from a clear cut some years before. The limbs were just a flailing around up there [attached], shoulda not been there myself. Seen old limbs on the ground from past winds. 

[thecfarm]

I have a lot of EWP. 
And I have a lot that break off because of a crotch and becomes firewood for the OWB. I have some that break off about 20 high. Sometimes they are really nice looking trees too. No reason for them to break off. That's why there is none around my house.
Most times they don't uproot, just break off.
Then another tree will get knocked down too.
These are big ones too, at least 2 feet across.
I worked in one area and between the dead ones and the ones that got knocked over by the wind, just about kept me in firewood all winter.
And I have not even started on what's past the bog.

[Wlmedley]

Nice day today so I went back on the ridge in the SxS. I'm pretty impressed with how good this thing goes up these steep hills. I've got a lot of available wood back there but no way to safely bring it off . SxS slides down empty so I'm afraid to try and haul wood off the hill with it. Could maybe drag some small logs down but would get them pretty dirty. Guess the best thing to do is leave them alone. Got plenty down closer to the house anyway. 

[doc henderson]

maybe a sled?  would more weight give better traction, so you do not slide down?  challenge accepted!!!...???

[Wlmedley]

Doc, a sled would surely go down my trail without a doubt but I wouldn't want to be hooked to it. Probably a lot steeper than what it looks in the picture. I've got a small 4 wheel drive farm tractor that I took up there once and it spun most of the way up but that wasn't the scary part. It slid all the way back down and I decided not to do that anymore. When I still had a 4 wheeler I drug several locust logs down with it to use for fence posts but I still took the risk of them rolling off the side of the trail and taking the 4 wheeler with them. Seems like the older I get the less nerve I have and that's probably a good thing.

[doc henderson]

Yes, I did not appreciate the slope till you now point it out.  Not in Ks anymore!

[SwampDonkey]

Reminds me of lots of places NE of here, from the paved road it's all up hill.    My woods is flat, but I look up at a mountain. I like working on flat ground. 

[LeftFinger]

skyline

[barbender]

Howard just rolls stuff like his ATV down the WV mountains, though I wouldn't recommend the method.