Making progress

Spring has hit with a vengeance and we're scrambling, trying to get the cedar logs out of the forest, that we cut last year when we made the perimeter trail.

I'd kind of forgotten about them, out of sight, out of mind and all. Well, I talked to a guy who mills cedar and found out how much we get could get for the finished boards from milling some of the big logs and my motivation was rekindled.

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It was pretty tough work getting the logs out of the forest though. We had to go in with the quad and chain them up, one or two at a time, and drag them back to our sorting pile.

It also helped talking to the miller about how to size the logs. We've decided to make the 4-5 inch into unfinished fence posts, 6-7 inch into to finished fence posts and mill 8" and higher into 1x6's or 2x4s. As you can see from the picture above, we're starting to get a pretty good pile, that mainly comes from the trail I built last year.


On the mushroom front, things haven't been going as well. I think the spawn we bought last year was killed when it sat on our porch for a couple days in the middle of summer. Why is it that UPS always delivers when your gone. It's happened to often to be an unlucky coincidence.

None of the spawn I planted has grown yet. However, I have an old hay bale sitting around that has sprouted grass and mushrooms like mad. Now if I can only get the same thing to happen where I want it to.

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