So while I was away from my blogging for a month I got all my firewood cut down and hauled home as well as a truckload of pine logs. I could not have done any of this without the help of my father!!
He doesent pose well for pictures but here he is doing what he did for over 25 years. We shipped his 240 timberjack up to my lot in Peru and i started alone on the firewood cutting. Monday was the first day I was up cutting I got sick and went home at noon and didnt make it back untill thursday. Thursday afternoon my father came and helped me out some but we really finished the firewood sunday when him and Treor came up to cut.
We cut it 24 foot to fit on Goerge Merrill and Son's pulp truck and had it hauled home. The wood showed up and was nicely stacked by tuesday of the next week.
We try our best to bother everyone as early as we can.
Once the firewood was home and our so called landing was clear we turned to cutting pine logs. Cutting firewood is an easy task. You find a hardwood tree cut it haul it out cut it 24 foot and your good. Pine logs are another story in themselves. Each tree could have any multitude of log lengths. So having a experienced logger helps get the most out of your trees.
The size of the trees that we were cutting my father figured for 50 or so logs for a load. When the driver came and picked them up he had the perfect amount of logs to fill the truck. We didn't have anything spectacular for logs but they were all decent grade logs.
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