Problem # 1 : Running low on firewood.
Problem # 2 : unwanted trees encroaching on pasture.
Took a few hours today, dropped 4 trees, limbed, crosscut, dragged brush into treeline, hauled logs to house furnace.
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2/ Got about three tractor bucket loads. 8 ft^3 each? 20 or 25 ft^3 total? Maybe 2 or 3 days supply (wet, so less effective energy density after enthalpy penalty to boil off the moisture). Went to sharpen the chain, but farmhands misplaced the file handle, so wood lathe timepic.twitter.com/NKFnPyptQB
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Joe Norman
3/ I answered this in tweet 2 in this thread, 16 hours ago. Burning green wood is not ideal, but is hardly "OMG, never ever EVER do that". Let me explain with a quote from my (as yet unfinished / unpublished) book on farminging / homesteading >>>https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1223969610321539072 …
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5/ so, anyway, yes, I'd get perhaps 50% more energy out of this green would if I split it, stacked it, and let it season for a summer. BUT ... 1) I am running low on wood _now_ 2) I actively want my firewood pile to be empty this summer, so that I can put in foundation piers >
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6/ Did a lot more clearing of saplings, vines, and brush. No real trees, hence little wood.pic.twitter.com/f3gANzBaRG
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7/ cleaning up the right hand edge of left pasture (the one with the greenhouse and vineyard). Looking south, you can see how saplings have crowded about 10 feet past the rock wall.pic.twitter.com/1Z43hjME4G
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9/ Was just emoing about small trees yielding minimal wood per unit effort...and then remembered that last fall I marked with spraypaint almost a dozen large standing dead trees along the verge of right pasture. Woot! Gonna have some productive fun next Saturday!
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Dr. Darth Blovious II
10/ I've got two saws: * Husqvarna 460 Rancher * Dolmar PS-7910 I recommend both of them. 3.6 HP Husq is nice for light work like clearing saplings and dropping small (~6-12" dia) trees. 5.7 HP Dolmar is better for crosscutting logging truck loadshttps://twitter.com/darthblovious/status/1224067930972991494 …
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11/ The spreadsheet I worked up when I was contemplating buying a second, larger, saw.pic.twitter.com/3zFOCv3Qth
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ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Snake
12/ It's on the list, dude! I've only been on the farm six years and two days, and there have been a LOT of other projects that have kept me busy (in addition to my day job, and writing books!).https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1224070091903397888 …
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