Another Nice Day in the Woods

[Gordon Gould]

It was another beautiful day for working in the woods today. Conditions are about perfect now with 5" of dry snow and temps in the teens.
I took down a good maple that was uprooted and leaning about 30 degrees from vertical and headed 90 degrees away from my skid trail. It was hung up in other trees. I cut the butt in the normal manner to fell a tree. When all I had left was the hindge I could see it was not going to come down so I put a couple wedges in the cut to keep from pinching the saw and cut it almost completely off. Then I pulled the tree off the stump and down with the winch using a snatch block for the 90 degree pull. The tree was 18" at the butt and there was a 36' log befor it forked. I cut the 36' log in two pieces, winched out the first piece, got it turned into the trail then did the same to the second piece. Then bunched them together and winched them both to the tractor. Hooked up and skidded out.
A great way to spend a morning.

 

[TripleR]

Beautiful scenery, thanks for the pictures.:thumbsup:

 

[Mousefield]

Nice pics, very pretty scenery, it almost makes you want to have snow. :laughing:
What are you going to do with the maple logs, firewood or boards?

 

[Adiredneck]

I was doing the same thing today. Gotta love the winches. This year I have chains on the front tires too. Walked up some icy patches better than last year.

I like your chains! Do you also have them on the fronts?

 

[Gordon Gould]

I would really miss the snow if I was somewhere else. But if we had wet heavy snow like wet concrete very often I probably wouldn't say that. The logs are just for firewood.

I don't have front chains just the rears. I often wondered what front chains would do for me. I have some ledgy grades that get icy but don't have much of a problem on them.

 

[Mousefield]

I would really miss the snow if I was somewhere else. But if we had wet heavy snow like wet concrete very often I probably wouldn't say that. The logs are just for firewood.

I don't have front chains just the rears. I often wondered what front chains would do for me. I have some ledgy grades that get icy but don't have much of a problem on them.

wet heavy snow like wet concrete That's what we get at our place most of the time out here on the west coast. Makes shoveling it hard work, that's one reason my wife :thumbsup: bought me the tractor.

 

[Adiredneck]

I don't have front chains just the rears. I often wondered what front chains would do for me. I have some ledgy grades that get icy but don't have much of a problem on them.

I have double ring chains on the back, and last spring my dad and I made a set for the fronts. They were old truck chains off a dump truck. We had to cut every cross chain down a couple of links & re-attach them. I didn't think they would do very much since they drop down in the r-1's, but today was a good test. They give just enough extra grip to get me past the patches of ice on the mountain.

 

[DieselnHooters]

did some skidding too today, a couple of dead white ash of similar size as your maples. I do not have a winch, maybe someday...i just hook them up to the loader with chains, i shorten the chains as i back up on the trail, once on the trail i hook them on the back of the tractor and skid them home

your forest looks like mine but then we are almost neigbor, i am about 40-50 miles from the NY or Vt border

theres a little more snow here , 8 to 10 inches

thx for the post and pics

 

[VroomVroom]

Did you need the block hooked to the tree to be able to pull that log? What is your winch rated for? Nice pictures.

 

[Jstpssng]

It was another beautiful day for working in the woods today. Conditions are about perfect now with 5" of dry snow and temps in the teens.
I took down a good maple that was uprooted and leaning about 30 degrees from vertical and headed 90 degrees away from my skid trail. It was hung up in other trees. I cut the butt in the normal manner to fell a tree. When all I had left was the hindge I could see it was not going to come down so I put a couple wedges in the cut to keep from pinching the saw and cut it almost completely off. Then I pulled the tree off the stump and down with the winch using a snatch block for the 90 degree pull. The tree was 18" at the butt and there was a 36' log befor it forked. I cut the 36' log in two pieces, winched out the first piece, got it turned into the trail then did the same to the second piece. Then bunched them together and winched them both to the tractor. Hooked up and skidded out.
A great way to spend a morning.

That's a pretty good sized twitch. :thumbsup: