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Here are a few pictures of the one section of pine before the logging started in 2024, after they were all done in the spring of 2025 and then now in the fall of 2025 showing the deciduous regrowth already starting to hide the mess. Other areas are not showing as much regrowth but this section...

Indeed the volume of new deciduous growth showing now just one summer after the removal of probably 60% of the pines is considerable. I am going to try and find a few pictures of that regrowth to post here later.

Having shown the damage to the trails and some of my efforts to repair the more essential access it is perhaps time to show the more positive actions of nature once spring arrived. The very first flower to pop up in the freshly logged area was this Red Trillium, one of several here where non had...

Getting back to the condition the trails were left in after the logging was all done below are a few pictures from the following spring once the snow melted off them and I got a good look at them. I was able to fill in the ruts going ACROSS the huge ruts in a couple of spots to access the...

An interesting discussion, as long time rural guy my main phone has been copper land line all my life....until the last few years. Over the last 3 or 4 years my phone was increasingly not working and was not getting fixed for days or in some cases weeks. As a former electrician I started...

When those logger went back to the one section of pines they had to widen my trail back in order to get their huge machines back there to cut and gather the pines. In doing so they had to remove some mature Ash trees which they set off to the side for my use later. Having spent quite a bit of...

Most individual residential homes over here are built using 8' pine, built my own of it but not my own pine as must be 'approved'! I can only assume that home construction is where it is going, oh boy do I have a deal for MODEL plane builders, the longer stuff from here would be far too knotty...

For those who have not seen an area of pine logged I will post below a couple of pics of the machines used in my bush, they are so wide that they do not fit up the original 6ft rows and so they totally remove every 3rd row and straddle it going in. This would leave a nice clear trail to be used...

Glad you are finding your way around Robin, from that Canadian Friend who dont say much often either:)

Some of those logs are prob yet to be collected in that pic Dave, they take anything over about 6" dia and has a straight length of 8 to 10 ft but run it all through their cutter measuring and cut what does not measure up into shorter pieces, in my case that seems to be mostly 3 to 5 ft. In my...

Yep, cutting was easy cos the other guy with his big machine did it but the mess he left not so much fun as most of it will be left lay rotting for years, just getting a couple of small trails open did me in at near 80! Next up some pictures (and comments) of said machines.......

Ok I just reread my earlier ramble through my woods see:- (My Managed Forrest plan in SW Ontario) but rather than extend that one I am going to start over here on the subject of thinning the 10acres of pine in the winter of 24 but I still monitor my original post for folks who may wish to...

English Ivy is most certainly VERY invasive and also very hard to eliminate, the other one that I have taking over is Periwinkle which is equally hard to control and hard to kill unless burnt upon removal. But beware the English Ivy in particular is highly flammable even when green so stand well...

Its a different thing depending upon your area and provider, here in SW Ontario I was forced to dump my hard wired landline due to it crapping out and obsolete underground wires, so went with internet connection via line of sight connection. It was fine except as with all such systems when no...

“the Bill will allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults - with less than six months to live -to seek an assisted death” As one who supports this bill I have one question, what of those who have expressed a quick and easy passing beyond 6 months in the future but who now are now no longer...