First load of logs this fall.

[starmac]

Well it dried out enough that I could get my truck back in the woods, sorta. lol
Anyway yesterday I drove 31 miles in for a load and the grouse was thick, really thick, it looks like it will be an excellent year around here for the grouse hunters.
After loading and heading out, the grouse hunters were pretty thick too. lol
passing them I would see several grouse in the backs of their pickups.

[Wayne Smith]

Good to see you posting again!

[Tom W.]

I tried hunting grouse when I was a teenager in upstate NY. Never hit a one. Not havinga dog, the durn things would wait until I almost stepped on them and then flush....kinda like quail on super steroids.

[Plate plinker]

Is the ground starting to freeze there yet?

[historicfirearms]

What kind of logs do you haul up there? In a previous life I was a Forester so I'm always curious about logging practices in different parts of the country. When I was in college I spent a summer on Wrangell island working for the forest service. I saw some truck loads of just one huge Sitka spruce log.

[Idaho45guy]

Cut up about half a cord and split and stacked it last week at the cabin. Forgot how arduous that work is...

[starmac]

What kind of logs do you haul up there? In a previous life I was a Forester so I'm always curious about logging practices in different parts of the country. When I was in college I spent a summer on Wrangell island working for the forest service. I saw some truck loads of just one huge Sitka spruce log.

here in the interior it is white spruce, south east has Sitka spruce.
What is crazy is these are going for firewood.
I had to reconfigure my truck to haul short logs and pull a pup, as they do not want any logs over 24 feet.
What else is crazy is I am hauling them 350 miles, no way the sawmill would pay freight like that for saw logs. lol

[1911sw45]

Starmac,
Are them the one where they are cut about a foot long and the drill a big hole in the center and have radiating cuts around them. Calling them starter logs?

[starmac]

Starmac,
Are them the one where they are cut about a foot long and the drill a big hole in the center and have radiating cuts around them. Calling them starter logs?

No, this guy has two firewood processors that cuts and splits everything, then he has two twisters that wraps small bundles of wood with plastic, which he sells to stores all over that part of the country.
He probably gets 5 to 6 hundred a cord, but has quite the operation and several employees and delivery trucks running.

Someone ask if our ground was freezing up, that would be a big NO, we have only had a couple of light freezes here in town, it was in the fifties yesterday. lol

[shdwlkr]

starmac good to see you posting again always like your posts and pictures

[white eagle]

gettin the itch to go grouse hunting
hope the ruffed grouse numbers up round these parts
cut and stacked some firewood (for deer season) red oak
hope to get some more made up soon

[CIC]

I lucked out on my firewood. A local tree trimming outfit dropped off 5 duptruck loads. That should be 2.5 years worth. Variety of species but all of them good burning. Best thing...free.

[starmac]

starmac good to see you posting again always like your posts and pictures

Exceptin I ain't ever learned to post pictures. lol

A good friend just left here, he went on a damsel in distress mission up to Manley. He reported grouse numbers were thick up that way also.

[starmac]

Took another load of logs today, and before daylight someone had tagged a moose, on the way back tonight, someone had tagged another one. I hope this moose kill rate doesn't keep up, we will run short of moose. The kill rate was the same for chebbys, but we have plenty of them. lol