Wood Cutting

It was above 60 today and I talked Linda and Stacey into helping cut a tree this morning, so we took the Mule to the hay shed and hooked up the trailer and went across the creek.

I wanted to cut some of the trees along the creek bank to thin them out and they are good wood for starting fires. They don't burn very long, but will start and burn long enough to get the other wood burning. I picked out a couple of smaller trees and cut them down, then pruned the limbs off the trunks. I shut off the chainsaw and we all picked up the brush and tossed it on the creek bank. After clearing the brush, I used the saw to cut the trunks into pieces while Stacey and Linda tossed them on the trailer. Once we were done there we drove to the hay shed and backed the trailer in the shed.
 
I started the wood splitter and began splitting while Stacey stacked the wood and Linda unloaded the trailer putting the wood next to the splitter. We worked until the two trees were split and stacked, then we went to the house and took showers. We drove to town for lunch at Grumpy's and then back home. Stacey received a CD we had ordered from Amazon.com and all of us had a mag-a-nag (magazine) in the mail too. We took some time to look at those and listen to the CD, then Linda and I went back outside. She drove me down to the tractor and we went back to the creek bank. I used the scoop to push and pull a bunch of the debris off the creek bank, including the limbs from the trees we had cut earlier. Then I had Linda drive the tractor and I rode on the seat for the backhoe. I had Linda move the tractor and I used the backhoe to pull big piles of debris away from the trees. The debris was left when the creek flooded and limbs and brush were caught in the trees close to the creek.
 
We finished all we were going to do at that time, and drove around the farm a little before going in for the night. We noticed that lots of the daffodils are standing tall.