Wood cutting and tree triming
My goal for this past week was to finish cutting the wood to heat the house next year. I have always cut one year ahead so the wood has time to dry. As a note it is not being in the sun that drys wood it is having wind blow over it. I stack the wood behind the barn so it gets both sun and wind. 
Pictured you can see one years wood and the end of another stack started behind it. Monday I cut two loads across the road and started to bring them home. The tractor started stalling out and I figured the battery terminals were loose. I ended up replacing one termenal after I got the first load home. While I was in the field bringing the second load up the tractor died and I could not get it running. From the way it stalled I figure there is a short or wire loose somewhere. I plan on getting a test light and seeing if I can fix it. I ended up getting the neighbor to tow the tractor and trailer loaded with wood home on Wednesday night. He has a 97 Ford Bronco, which is not all that big of a vehicle so I was surprised he could do it. My tractor is an Allis Chalmers CA made in 1957. It is a small tractor and has about 20 housepower. The beauty of an old tractor like that is that they are simple and even I can fix most of what goes wrong. With the two loads I got Monday I have about 3/4 of the wood cut for next year.
Since I could not cut wood the rest of the week I trimmed trees. We have a lot of Oak trees that are growing at the edge of the woods. Oaks need sunlight to sprout and grow so they do best on the woods edge where they can get sunlight. The problem is they get branches down low on the tree because there are not alot of other trees around forcing them to grow straight and tall to get sunlight. I went around and trimmed 10 to 15 trees that were 3 to 5 inches in diameter. I cut off all the branches except for the top 2-3 feet of the tree. This should make it so as the tree grows it will have straight sections with no branches. This makes the tree worth more for lumber.
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