That’s a well maintained birch forest, Andris. Even ground also. Beautiful 
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It’s cold here too, -12°C in the morning, sunny and around freezing in the afternoon, sawing is on the “program”…
Andris, you have great equipment, thanks for the pictures.
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Jan,
birch trees on these pictures took over agricultural land and are little over 30 years old,
i remember crops growing on that place ))
but these we planted 18 years ago
thank you Tone - this old valmet perform very well in forest - has small cab and pulls like a beast ))
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Nice saw you have sitting on the log Tone. I mentioned before that I have the same one. Of course I have been through several bars on it since 1985 when I got it, so it doesn’t say Homelite anymore. Still runs great but I haven’t used it in a while. I should see if it will fire up. I always get a kick out of listening to it bark. Sounds meaner than any of my other saws. I have been wanting to saw wood as well but this winter has prevented it. Saw mill is buried under 30 plus inches of snow right now. We are walking in shoveled out trenches around the house. I tried to load pictures but for some reason they wouldn’t load. I’ll try a different computer.
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Wayne, JO, Johan, and Goran,
Thanks for the birthday greetings. It was a nice day.
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If we’re not freezing, we’re flooding then freezing…
Kentucky River came up last weekend, got up to 9 feet over the road. At that height it gets into our house a bit. It’s down again, but we still can’t get out via the road. Drying out with fans and dehumidifers now… life near a river is great but has its challenges.
Then the temps dropped out, and we had a skating rink. Now there’s 4 inches of snow on top of the ice, but the water’s gone… the sound of shattered ice echoes through the woods. Fun times!
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Happy Birthday Steve, yes a rare sight to see on your birthday.
May God Yehovah bless you always by His Word the Son…
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Wow Chris, I hope and pray it drys out and the river does not rise up that high again.
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Hey ChrisKY, I hope your new house site is on the upslope, yes?
We had our freezing two weeks ago for 4-5 days. Then a couple of days of snow.
Now coming will be three solid days of a mid-Pacific atmospheric river. Rain, rain and then lowlands and rivers flooding. We live high on the top of a hump ridge.
So today “moderate” before the rains is batteries charging day. It has been six weeks:
I dragged out my original open framed Yamaha inverter unit this time. Not used for at least four years. Maybe five years. Stored fuel ran out dry.
Ha! Once I remembered the fuel shut off petcock it started up on the #5 pull; full manual choked; six months old air tight sealed gasoline.
I forgotten how relatively quiet this lower speed unit is:
Done with batteries charging I’ll now store it wet with Aspen 2 fuel. @Woodrunner Gorans’ Way.
Wife is pestering me now to do something with the two winter winds leaned over harvested trees:
Not fun. The 20 foot ladder. Long cable and chains line. And the tractor.
When I say we have more trees aging falling down than we can use, I am serious.
Steve Unruh
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A belated Happy 28th Birthday Steve! 
I hope Chris and crew can stay safe but there is a 100% chance it will happen again. I don’t know about the kentucky river but the ohio river floods regularly. This isn’t even the worst on record or even part of the largest group of yearly floodings if the chart for louisville and the ohio river are any indication. I think it is about mitigating damage more then anything.
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Thanks Sean O and Bob Mac for the birthday greetings. I failed to mention that I turned 71 yesterday.
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You are lucky Steve. You can reverse those numbers and be 17 again. I’m not so lucky. 77 is 77 no matter how you look at it. 
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Tried the volvo on ice some, not the best conditions, lot’s of water on the ice, hard to see the “track”
100% woodgas, only in Swedish, and crappy filmed, the cap-cam to high, maybe i need to cut my hair to get it lower? 
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Haha I too have battled that camera angle, stairing at the headliner 
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You are twin 7 year olds!
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Goran,
You did it! Great! Hope to see more. Thanks for sharing!
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First time I have see a DOW vehicle drifting on a ice covered lake.
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We’re drying out now. We get a flood this size about every 5 years or so. They were predicting 49 feet, it only got to 45, which makes a massive difference. At 45 feet it’s inconvenient more than anything. I have a lot of shop stuff on the ground floor “basement” which I have to move to the neighbors place. I think next time I’ll just rent a UHaul truck for the week and stuff everything in there.
Yes the new house will be built on a rise at the foot of our big hill. I’ve never seen water get close to that height. The surveyor who did our place checked the 100 year flood height, we’re above that level at the house site. But not at the current site.
Every time we learn some things. This time I learned, my equipment was not all in “start up and drive” condition. More things were dead than I like. Hence the tractors under some water. Other things, I dragged out with a tow rope. Also my little cabin is built on skids, to theoretically be able to tow it somewhere. But the ground conditions were sloppy mud, I wasn’t going to get very far trying to skid it along. Instead, I jacked it up on cinderblocks, which mitigated the damage somewhat.
I’m very much looking forward to the new house being on higher ground. But this house will remain, and we’ll have to make sure whoever lives there can handle flood prep in a timely fashion, or keep the ground level empty.
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