Stopped for a Blanding’s Turtle trying to cross the road this afternoon. I helped her across but when I walked back I found one that wasn’t so lucky. The drought has dried up the marsh here and there were lots of turtle tracks across the mud and could explain the movement.

Bucking a big White Pine log with an axe for fun.

Splitting with a faller’s axe. A faller’s axe normally has a shorter handle than you would want for splitting but it still works.

The lesser sections with knots etc. go to firewood

Also I am saving some planks for paddles? a table? Something…

A tree falls when a faller fells it. A felling axe is an axe used to chop down a tree. A faller’s axe is used by a sawyer to make a tree fall by driving felling wedges. I’m not the fellow that made these rules; I am just a faller that follows them.

It cuts. This tree was a borer-doomed Green Ash

Indeed. Even as a fan of snags for wildlife, this 114 year old White Ash, which was killed by Emerald Ash Borers, was too nice to leave to rot so I’ve been gradually disassembling it into haulable chunks.