Mud And Leftovers

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With the logging project squashed for the winter, Mike has been busy transferring the bits and pieces of the left-over logs from the back landing to the front landing.

These logs are destined to be worked up for the firewood project. On a typical year when the rains have not yet gooed up the place, I would be out there cutting them into chunks destined for the splitter, but as it is they are not in a good spot for production.

The back landing is closer to the hillside and water tends to settle at the base of the hill. Just getting through the gate from the nursery field to the landing could mean wading through a large, swampy puddle. The skid road that the cows use from the front to the back of the property has several dips that also collect the hillside runoff. Mike could hook the logging cables to the logs from the back landing and drag the logs along the skid/cattle road, but that would tear up muddy surface and dirty up the logs.

He already had to haul rock in to the puddle area at the gate in an effort to keep the pole truck from sinking, so the big puddle hasn’t made an appearance yet. With this exit available, until the fall rains start in earnest, he has been resorting to  one log at a time hoisted onto the front of the loader tractor and driving them through the field to the front landing.