Need to get Fat Allis lit off

[DMiller]

Colder than a well diggers butt currently, Allis has been sleeping quietly and I am going to have to anger the old Gal once again. Had a tree drop on our back fence, all too many widow makers hanging in the way but may be able to snatch out a 12-16' white oak log ~28" at the 30' line hollow at the stump. Is too bad I do not burn firewood.

 

[Mother Deuce]

The craigslist free tree you haul ad won't work??

 

[td25c]

White Oak makes pretty good heat .

Keep sawing and I'll bring the 175 Allis Chalmers with splitter and the C-60 Chevy .

 

[Birken Vogt]

That old C60 can handle a lot more wood than that.

 

[DMiller]

Well Full blown Ice Storm this morning, not getting this done for day or two, DAMMIT!!

 

[td25c]

We caught a small piece of that storm . Little ice then turned to rain rest of the day .

 

[DMiller]

Grew that wild hair this morning, was 21 degrees last night so all is frozen hauled batteries down and old sleepy Allis busted right off 7:20. Let it sit and warm awhile get all the fluids moving, loaded up a few odds and ends to do the drag work and a chainsaw as well a crowbar just in case.
Limbs pulled out relatively easy, made a loose pile to cut them up later, got the main section of trunk off the fence where found it had split to within a few feet of the top cut so is junk firewood. Got slicker as morning progressed, used Allis to get the big stuff moved then went to patching the fence and then packed all back to the barn and shut all back down for the next round of snow. Turned to a Greasy slimy mess as gave it up, crossed 45 degrees with the top inch to two of soil loose goo.

 

[Ronsii]

Good to hear she started right up

things are kinda melting here also... gonna be a mess for a while

 

[DMiller]

Not much to show for the labor involved. Fat Allis could not handle the slop of the small drainage creek and the log same time.

 

[DMiller]

Almost forgot, abandoned over half the top across the fence, do not know and do not care if someone else cuts it up.

 

[crane operator]

Looks like you might have preferred the colder weather, frozen is sometimes better than slime. It was over 60 here today.

 

[DMiller]

Always greasy here this time of year. Loess soil holds water like a sponge until the dry season starts then it settles deep. Frozen helps for work like this at this time of year. Mud in that little drainage ditch was butthole cheeks deep to a TALL giraffe, I chucked garbage wood into it for a bottom and still settled slowly in that goop.