Just caught this, sorry for the delay. While looking for a place we almost got one near Ogdensburg! We’ve ended up a couple hours south of there, but that’s basically the same neighborhood. Hope you all aren’t getting the smoke too bad. It’s been of and on terrible here, got to imagine it’s worse up there.

That’s a great idea too, we have a lot of random mounds because we mostly mulch by rotating where we dump horse stalls and the spring cleanup of the sheep/goat deep bedding. It’d be nice to keep them all from spreading downhill a bit better.

We’re similar. We only have a little wood burner, but will be doing maple over wood instead of propane turkey fryers next year so hopefully that will use some up.

I like to keep a pile of branches about 300 cu ft for no-dig mortality composting in case something medium sized dies. Infinitely easier than burying. If our luck is good and a pile starts to rot I chip it and start a new one.

Hugel mounds for sure, and this year I’m cutting into any soft logs, putting cut side down so they get good and gross for next year’s hugel beds and mushrooms.

If it keeps going like last winter I’m just going to start making rough cut benches everywhere. Who doesn’t like a bench?

I’m a huge fan of my electric chainsaw. It uses the same batteries as my snowblower so I’ve got enough juice to do just about anything and don’t have to mess around with starting and stopping all the time on bigger projects.

Never had any problems with my Kubota tractor, 10 seasons in. Just replaced all of the bucket hydraulic hoses, which cost a small fortune but that’s been the biggest maintenance. Also got a Howse bush hog that’s probably 15 yrs old and beat to hell, but gets the job done year after year. Don’t think they make them anymore, though.