Last load and then some...

Yesterday was a great day to haul wood over the hill. It snowed a bit over night and the temps dropped down into the low twenties, so the trail set up and the snow crust hardened enough to work without snowshoes.  Finished up the spruce tree from the other day, then dropped and bucked up a dead birch that fell right next to trail. So had it loaded and back home before noon.

Today not so much. It was near thirty when we got up this morning and mid forties a few hour later. So since the trail'd be too soft to haul loads, decided to drop some of the dead trees near the house. There's a birch right behind the tool shed that lost it's top a while back, so figured it was time to go. Put a rope and come-along on it and Andy cranked away while I got the chain saw going and cut'er down. Unlike the last time (Aspen Errors, Part Duce...10/6/17), there was no near miss. The wood's a little punky, should have dropped it a few years ago, but like most of the trees here, it'll burn.

The birch dropped right where it was supposed to; no "near death experience" this time!