Logging Out...

Since all the birch collected last fall is spilt and stacked, needed to get out and cut some more. Suitable trees are hard to find, they need to be dead and down, but not so old the wood is rotted or "punky." There's a bunch of trees that were pushed over when one of the neighbors did some road widening a few years ago. He told some of his friends to take the wood, but it was hit and miss what was removed. So last fall I started cleaning up the remaining trees and just finished cutting up and hauling out the logs.

The last load of logs hauled back from along the road. They're cut into six foot lengths to fit in the bucket and just filled it up.

Then they get cut to length (<20 in) to fit the splitter and wood stove. 

After splitting, they're stacked up to dry for burning in the winter (thanks Andy). There's about two cords split so far; we're about half way there for the winter supply. Like money in the bank, there's never too much firewood!

Deja Vu All Over Again...

 Like last spring and many before that, now's the time to start splitting wood. Last fall there was a decent supply of wood bucked up and stacked, so this spring, at first,  all there was to do was split and restack it.

Now that all the birch is split, it's time to go find some more. Of course there's still plenty of aspen left over from Cy's last clearing ( Firsts...10/22/22 ), but that can wait until there's more birch done, since it takes longer to dry.

It's also been time to prep the Guzzi and get it out again for a spring ride.

Probably will be mostly riding the 650 until the chrome bores are replaced with the new cylinders on the 850. The chrome begins to flake off after they age, it's fifty years old, and will destroy the engine if it does since there's no oil filter. It seems there's an outfit in Italy that started making a replacement cylinder kit, so I bought a pair last fall before they all disappeared again. Now all I have to do is install them; that'll be fun.