{"id":104,"date":"2010-02-05T19:40:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-02-05T19:40:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T00:40:58","slug":"wood-cutting-and-tree-triming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Wood cutting and tree triming"},"content":{"rendered":"

My goal for this past week was to finish cutting the wood to heat the house next year.\u00a0 I have always cut one year ahead so the wood has time to dry.\u00a0 As a note it is not being in the sun that drys wood it is having wind blow over it.\u00a0 I stack the wood behind the barn so it gets both sun and wind.\u00a0 \"Wood\u00a0Pictured you can see one years wood and the end of another stack started behind it.\u00a0 Monday I cut two loads across the road and started to bring them home.\u00a0 The tractor started stalling out and I figured the battery terminals were loose.\u00a0 I ended up replacing one termenal after I got the first load home.\u00a0 While I was in the field bringing \u00a0the second load up the tractor died and I could not get it running.\u00a0 From the way it stalled I figure there is a short or wire loose somewhere.\u00a0 I plan on getting a test light and seeing if I can fix it.\u00a0\u00a0I ended up getting the neighbor to tow the tractor and trailer loaded with wood home on Wednesday night.\u00a0 He has a 97\u00a0 Ford Bronco, which is not all that big of a vehicle so\u00a0I was surprised he could do it.\u00a0 My tractor is an Allis Chalmers CA made in 1957.\u00a0 It is a small tractor and has about 20 housepower.\u00a0 The beauty of an old tractor like that is that they are simple and even I can fix most of what goes wrong.\u00a0 With the two loads I got Monday I have about 3\/4 of the wood cut for next year.<\/p>\n

Since I could not cut wood the rest of the week I trimmed trees.\u00a0 We have a lot of Oak trees that are growing at the edge of the woods.\u00a0 Oaks need sunlight to sprout and grow so they do best on the woods edge where they can get sunlight.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I went around and trimmed 10 to 15 trees that were 3 to 5 inches in diameter.\u00a0 I cut off all the branches except for the top 2-3 feet of the tree.\u00a0 This should make it so as the tree grows it will have straight sections with no branches.\u00a0 This makes the tree worth more for lumber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My goal for this past week was to finish cutting the wood to heat the house next year.\u00a0 I have always cut one year ahead so the wood has time to dry.\u00a0 As a note it is not being in the sun that drys wood it is having wind blow over it.\u00a0 I stack the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_regular_price":[],"currency_symbol":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_slider_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","post_slider_layout_landscape_large":"","post_slider_layout_portrait_large":"","post_slider_layout_square_large":"","post_slider_layout_landscape":"","post_slider_layout_portrait":"","post_slider_layout_square":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeonthefarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}