Spring is coming

[jim curlee]

Had a flock of swan's fly over the house yesterday, a flock of geese on Friday.

Spring can't be too far off. LOL

Took a scenic yesterday, the lakes don't look very springlike to me, didn't appear to be much melting going on, the liquid water is still buried under a lot of snow, and ice.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking on my part, I have had about enough winter. lol

Jim

 

[Wanderer]

On 3/29/2022 at 8:57 AM, jim curlee said:

I have had about enough winter. lol

Jim

 

I think we all are after this one. 

 

Ice is breaking up in central MN, swans are moving along and ducks are showing up.  I might’ve missed the river push already as the woodies are coming in numbers now.

 

Robins for over a week and LOTS of red winged black birds in my woods today.  Sounded like a late summer marsh at sunrise.

Edited April 1, 2022 by Wanderer

[smurfy]

Yep spring is here. 

[Wanderer]

And so is tree work time.  Helped my buddy with one of two big Ash Trees he needed to bring down to protect his house.

 

I got 51 when I counted the rings.

 

 

And today I hope to rent a lift so I can trim all my oaks of the dead branches and take out a few more box elders.

 

Is it weird that I actually kinda like tree work?

[smurfy]

i refuse to answer that on the grounds in may incriminate me!!!!!!!!

 

actually i dont mind going out and cutting wood for campfire use!!!!!!!!!

[chaffmj]

3 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Is it weird that I actually kinda like tree work?

 

I love using the chainsaw! Sometimes I even us it on trees. 

[leech~~]

7 hours ago, Wanderer said:

 

Is it weird that I actually kinda like tree work?

I like dropping them and ground work. But, you an't going to see me dangling from a rope with no chainsaw!

[Wanderer]

3 hours ago, leech~~ said:

I like dropping them and ground work. But, you an't going to see me dangling from a rope with no chainsaw!

Oh but the view!  Maxed out on the 55’ 

 

[leech~~]

2 hours ago, Wanderer said:

Oh but the view!  Maxed out on the 55’ 

 

 

Yeah, but you live your life hanging from a thread.......................So. 

[JerkinLips]

17 hours ago, leech~~ said:

I like dropping them and ground work. But, you an't going to see me dangling from a rope with no chainsaw!

After breaking my back last spring cutting limbs off my trees, I left the big work to the expert this year.

[SkunkedAgain]

Sounds like sound advice.

 

I climbed into a shoreline maple on Saturday morning. The view from 10ft up wasn't all that much different.  I trimmed off the branch that needed to go and then jumped back down into the snow. My cell phone popped out of my pocket. After some digging, I found it and zipped it into a pocket. On my walk back to the dock, the upper layer of snow gave in and I went crotch-deep down to the ice. Nature was working against me for trimming the tree I guess.

 

I also thought that the snowpack was strong enough to bring my ATV across the ice since snowmobiles rode on top just fine. I rode my ATV to the shore, threw it into High gear, and hit the throttle. It made it about 50ft before the tires spun and the ATV sunk down into the slush deep beneath the snow. I then spent an hour hand-winching that thing backwards towards the shore. Plan aborted!

[mdogdaddy]

 

It's actually starting to happen...

 

 

 

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/ice_out/index.html

[Wanderer]

8 hours ago, SkunkedAgain said:

Sounds like sound advice.

 

That’s the advice I usually give - I guess I just don’t take it as well!

 

The oak I dropped today had 78 rings.  Biggun with old farm fence wire or sumthin running through the base.  New $35 chain is toast.

Edited April 4, 2022 by Wanderer

[SkunkedAgain]

That's a lot of wood! Some of the arborist websites are filled with threads about interesting things that people found inside the trees, usually spikes/nails/fencing but sometimes some interesting things.

[BigVTim]

Are y'all doing the rain dance up there? Looks like it is working! Keep it up!

[leech~~]

7 hours ago, SkunkedAgain said:

That's a lot of wood! Some of the arborist websites are filled with threads about interesting things that people found inside the trees, usually spikes/nails/fencing but sometimes some interesting things.

 

YouTubes got some good vids and folks cutting into things on their board mills.  

[jim curlee]

I sawed up a walnut log on my sawmill last fall that had part of a blue tarp in the middle of the tree.

Solid wood all the way around with a bit of a void where the tarp was. 

About a 16" diameter tree.

Otherwise, I have sawed out all kinds of items in trees, mainly bullets, nails, and barbed wire, concrete once, that will wreck a $30 blade mighty quick. lol

 

By the by, had a couple of otters playin on the river bank last evening, so the river ice is melting at least in one spot. lol

 

Jim 

[Wanderer]

22 hours ago, jim curlee said:

 

Otherwise, I have sawed out all kinds of items in trees, mainly bullets, nails, and barbed wire, concrete once, that will wreck a $30 blade mighty quick. lol

Sounds like lumber from Gettysburg!

 

[leech~~]

There was a neat story of a guy who found an old Winchester in a really old tree.  They think some hunter must have leaned it up against the tree and forgot where he put it or past away some how? 

[SkunkedAgain]

Was it at Winchester Lake, north of Vermilion??? 

[jim curlee]

Now I know it's spring, there's a robin in the top of a popple tree outback, singin his butt off. lol