gonegalt

Heh!

Dont sell dwarfs short.

Fundy runners rule.

Line trucks rolling westward on 95 at Canada border.

No mo tug boatin for me. Retired 1/20 and let my license expire last day of 4/20 so even if I wanted to work that makes sure I cant. Now, 4/20 is my favorite day!

Under a dry dome that won't give way. I supply your CAD. Good ice out there but no snow till mid week. I'll still watch this though.

Studs and scratchers will work till then.

Current snow conditions on CAR/PQI line. The white line is the far bank of the mighty Aroostook river.

Oh well, wasnt Joe Bartlo.

Joe Bartlo. Mt. Pocono. Lived w his mom. Had cats. Loved the guy way back when on the very old boards.

I like swinging a maul. Wood heat makes strong men.

Nice maul. Mine has been through 2 fg handles. Ton of swing weight for big 'uns. Definitely an outside tool. Using it down at the tree house.

Yup, that's it. I split 16" logs with mine. Wonderful basement exersize machine. Tell us about this Fiskars you speak of.

Yup, that's the one. Single piston ram powered by two smaller rams that you pump. It's my excersize machine. All mounted on a heavy I beam frame w/rollers. Got my first one in '96, on my second one now- Harbor Freight for $99 or so. The HF one I bought 5 yrs ago is identical to the first one from 96. Real simple design and a heavy dependable tool. I've been through 100 cords here (5 cord/yr) and have split a quarter of that with that splitter. Get one and grow those shoulders!

Maybe. NBD though because I clean out my pipes and have the chimney swept annually. Birch is heavy creosote. I burn a real hot fire on occasion to clear the pipes. Never get sparks out the top.

I cut my wood consumption by a quarter after installing a damper. Stove runs much longer on night burns too. Install a damper.

Ash is my dominant burn these days. All summer and fall I sliced and diced a bunch I dragged up from down slope around the ponds. So easy to split too- 16" sticks make short work on my hand splitter. Tractor bucket load a day for 3 months and I'm set with 5 cords in my basement and 1 cord down at the tree house. Harvested 3 of those cords here- about 50/50 maple/ash. Got a deal on 3 cord of seasoned birch so got 3 cords of that. Birch is mid-soft wood in my book. Burns well and the bark is wonderful good for starter though after October there's no need for starter when the fire is always going in the house. My hottest burns though are beech and maple. Normal delivered mix up here is 80-85 pct maple w/ remainder birch, beech and ash. Mix varies by woodlot. Burning ash now down at the tree house. Got a smoker down here that I burn maple in so I use the ash inside and smoke with the maple weekly outside in attached wood/smoke shed I built on this summer. Going through a lot of wood this year I think, but the ribs...

25-30 mph gusts, heavy rain. Lawn chair shuddering.

Now that I dont have drive to NYC twice/month I range just 6 miles or so. The heart of metropolitan Aroostook County has all I need. Had a balloon land in my field last month Was working on my little cabin down there to the right when they dropped in. Gave us a nice bottle of champagne! Sky was full of 'em for days. Spending my time making a wood shed / smoke house addition for my cabin. Winter is coming and I'm camping out in it! Thanks for asking.

Breezy and dry so far in CAR/PQI. Many north east storms and gales up here in winter but the ground is quite wet this summer. Breeze is stiffening out of the NNE. Got my lawn chair out on a deck as my early wind indicator- just flapping a little. Vim Toot

Snow rotting out. Fields still nice but choose your route wisely as bare areas appear. Can still ride down to river but that's done tomorrow with these awful SNE temps. It's actually beautiful out. My sled commuting to my woods yacht will finish maybe day after tomorrow. I'm melting. River is up maybe 8' from mid-winter levels which lasted until just days ago. Rapid rise but no jams. Grimes rd in FF has ice issues right now- real lowland, takes little more than a septic backup to flood. If I were a Grimes, I'd change my name.

The river is rising pretty good. No jams, some pack/brash flowing by. Nice gentle melt. Sorry about the lack of damage.

Real melt started. Gonna document the river rise. River has receded some as of this morning. No doubt it is rising now as the fields are in run off.

Going up to 55f tomorrow but with low dews following a freeze tonight I'll bet those fields still got it. The river.... nope. Oh well. sit and have a breather... The river has dropped about a foot as shown by the photos. Expect a rise this timme of year but we've only been evaporating- no runoff. It will begin to rise day after tomorrow. There wont be any jams this year.

Nice Easter ride out back today. Street clothes and a hat! Oh and work gloves, Flat as a pancake, solid as a rock except for the top two inches. They're soft as butter. Been no melt yet, just evaporation. Melt begins tomorrow.