3 Crucial Tips for Managing Your Forested Acreage This Winter

You may be looking forward to some snowshoeing, ice fishing, or snowmobiling as the snow and cold weather arrive. On the other hand, maybe you already miss the long days and warm nights of summer. Either way, Old Man Winter is settling in across North America, and he’s here to stay.

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That means it’s time to do what you must to prepare your forested acreage for a long winter. Hopefully, you’ve already gotten a head start on some of these crucial tasks, but if other obligations have held you back, don’t worry.

With the industry’s best-valued forestry equipment, like an ATV log trailer, wood chipper, and stump grinder, you can tackle your to-do list before winter weather makes things tough.

Here are three vital tasks and considerations to prepare your forested acreage for winter.

Cut and Store Firewood Early

The first and most important consideration is heating your home through the winter.

You likely have a traditional fireplace that allows you to cut down on utility costs and avoid service outages, which means you need to cut a healthy amount of firewood.

If so, use one of the most reliable, durable off road utility trailers available to haul and stack your wood before winter conditions make this task impractical or impossible.

Even if you don’t get all your firewood cut before the first snow of the season, you’ll at least want to get your storage set up. You could use simple firewood racks or even just pallets to keep your split wood off the ground. Once it’s stacked, cover it with a tarp.

Consider Wildlife Habitat

There are many things to love about living in a rural, forested area, including the wildlife. We all love to see trophy game wandering through our land, but in truth, the majority of the wildlife that shares your property are birds and small mammals.

It’s important to remember that as we’re preparing to get through a long winter, so too are these animals, and you can bet they’re going to have a much tougher time of it than we are. As you may know, this wildlife plays a crucial role in the health of our forests.

So, as you prepare your land for winter, consider leaving down timber that might make the ideal winter habitat for small animals.

We all want to get our land tidied up before the snow accumulates, but property that we might consider “neat” is often uninhabitable for the wildlife that helps keep it healthy.

Set Yourself Up for Success

As seasons change, so too do our routines. Some of the acreage management work you’d take on during the summer isn’t necessary or feasible during the winter months. That means you’ll use some of your forestry equipment less frequently or not at all.

However, you’ll need that gear once the snow melts, so take steps to minimize wear as it sits outside or in your shop for a few months.

You should ensure vital forestry products like your sawmill bandsaw, PTO wood chipper, and ATV utility trailer are winterized if necessary. Then, cover them to protect them from moisture that can cause oxidation and other damage.

Add fuel stabilizer to the gas tanks on your equipment to prevent the fuel from gumming up your carburetors.

This is also an ideal time to perform preventative maintenance and check components for wear, replacing them if necessary, so that your equipment is ready to go when spring arrives.

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