Bridgewood pictures

See also the Bridgewood weblog posts for more about the wood. These pictures are sorted in date order so you can see how the site has progressed.

Cleared Glade from the south (14 Jan 09)
North and south halves of the Glade, taken from the southwest corner, showing most of its 1000 square metres. [more...]

Cutting a trunk up into sections (13 Dec 08)

Glade after felling (13 Dec 08)
Northern half of the Glade, after felling and removing most of the brash and smaller branches.

Wood mouse (6 Dec 08)
A wood mouse in a pile of logs in the Glade. It was quite like a field mouse or even a house mouse, and was longer than it looks like from this angle.

"Glider" cart and wood pile (17 Nov 08)
From this weblog post: [more...]

Trolley cart (17 Nov 08)
Briefly described in this weblog post.

Tanos, Chainsaw, Bridgewood (9 Nov 08)
Me here.

Felled tree (27 Oct 08)
Still showing the shape of the crown laid out on the ground after the branches have been cut off.

Tree cross section (27 Oct 08)
Cross section of a recently felled poplar tree, about 12 inches in diameter. The central heartwood (which is largely inert), the surrounding sapwood (which transports water and nutrients), and bark are clearly visible. By counting the rings, this tree was about twenty years old.

Glade and logs (27 Oct 08)
Logs and branches from several trees felled and then cut up. I'm working round the edge, felling the trees into the centre of the Glade or into the space left by the previous felling. The aim is to avoid felled trees getting tangled ("hung up") in standing trees, as the danger is the hung up tree falls on you when you want to fell the other one. If you don't clear up as go along, you end up with a giant version of the pick up sticks game. But since you have a chainsaw, that's not a big problem ...

October view (16 Oct 08)
Taken in October, the same view as this picture in February and another in June. There's a special page that allows you to flip these pictures back and forth to see the changes.

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