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Showing posts with label firewood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firewood. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Wordless Wednesday May 11, 2016

Russell and Mike ready to make firewood!
 

Siskiyou County necessity...
 

More Siskiyou County required equipment... 
 

Why the tree died... 
 

Angry biting ants do not like being disturbed... 
 

Yikes
 

It went down between two smaller trees 


KaBaam!
 
Looking from the top towards the stump

 
 
Russell resting on his laurels...
 
The Knob Cone Pine tree was approximately
96' tall and approximately 40" across the top of the stump. The top of the tree snapped off when it fell so I am not sure how tall it really was. Now to figure out how to buck it up to the top of the hill so it can be split. If need be we'll just take the  wood splitter down to the tree and use the ATV and trailer to bring up the split wood. Besides this tree Russell and Mike took out 3 Oaks that were also dead.
Most likely from the 4 year drought
 All photos were taken May 9, 2016
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

Six Words and Sunday Shadows! September 19-20, 2015

 
Russell keeps painting....
 
 
I keep shadowing....
 
 
Finding silly shots....
 

 
Stacking more wood....

 
Spotting small objects....
 
 
Hah I gotcha!
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Saturday, August 08, 2015

Six Words and Sunday Shadows August 8-9, 2015

 
We have been busy this week.....
 
Orange sunrise due to wildfires 
August 7, 2015

 
Smoky skies create an eerie light
inside our home....
 
 
Russell has been tremendously
busy cutting down dead trees due to pine beetles and the drought.

 
Lots of nicely stacked wood
waiting for the log splitter we
will be borrowing from friends.

 
Everywhere I turn there's another pile!

 
I think the "Chefette" owes him
a big steak dinner?? 

 
Meanwhile.....
 

We listened to these incredible musicians... 
who are here for a week of study
and performances.
This is the third year for this event.




 
And after our Friday hike they came
to a friends home to play after
we had eaten our pot luck lunch... 

 
And here's why children should have
music lessons....
 
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Have a great week and do visit


Thursday, May 09, 2013

There is always something to do!


What began as this in December.....
  

Timber!!


Is now firewood for the winter!
Our great friends who just live up
the road brought their log splitter
up yesterday and between Russell, Bill and
Ewana short work was made
of that huge tree!
We ended up with about 4 cords of wood.
We shared half with Bill and Ewana.
Thanks to them the job was made so easy!
Nothing  better than neighbors helping neighbors!




Thursday, February 21, 2013

Timber!!!


We had a Douglas Fir tree that was leaning
way over our driveway....


We opted to have it removed safely
rather than wait for a storm to
take it out and block our driveway...


This machine manueverd all the logs up
closer to our house so we cna
more easily this summer buck it up
for firewood...
just another day in the wild woods of Weed....