Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[VroomVroom]

J5 bombardier for firewood.

 

[VroomVroom]

 

[Hammer Head]

Looks like your road has a lot of Deere tracks!
I will have to make due with my SSQA forks. Need to convince the wife how important it is to have a grapple also.

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Had a White Oak come down and used the grapple to get it out of the woods.

 

[PapaPerk]

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That's a cool machine! How do the tracks hold up?

 

[VroomVroom]

no issues. Every few hundred hours, the cleats/grousers will wear where the rubber tires run....an elongated hole will start to appear, we've been filling them in with a short piece of flat bar or rebar and welding back up. The rubber will last a long long time. The tire guides, can bend, and cut your tires, but not that often, and we've got heavying flat bar and bent into a U shape and welded them on, I haven't seen any of thos bend yet. The tracks are good. wheel bearings usually need replacing every other year. Keep the grease to them its not too bad. Their not hard to change, not too expensive.

 

[Billrog]

Sure nice seeing all the equipment love the grapples .



Looking forward to getting more ideas here.

 

[Billrog]

Sure nice seeing all the equipment love the grapples .



Looking forward to getting more ideas here.

 

[Oldpath05]

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I have a great idea, take the long way back to your home and drop off some of those cedar logs at my mill. Me and my son have been waiting for 6 months now for some cedar logs, only know of one guy that's cuts cedar around here, and that's only when he feels like it.

 

[Billrog]

If you can get it now Oldpath it's the best time , hard to peel but it's not all slimy under the bark. I've only fell two green ones in the last 20 yrs. but I should be logging some right now but there's no snow and I like to keep them clean for milling. Cedar is the only lumber I can make good money at with the mill.Here's some of the cedar.

 

[VroomVroom]

Just thinking. the last 20 years or more I haven't seen anyone use their tractors for logging. We used the tractor to pick up bucked up wood into a wagon and pull on good ground, to where we store it. Normally for most years we hauled our wood with snowmachine, and maybe half the way, to retrieve it in the spring with the tractor. I often think of logging with the old tractors. I can't remember the model of the tractors, I think one was a 6 cylinder, international maybe. It wasnt physically as big as the Farmall M we have, but I'm thinking it may have had more power, or so I think only. But we were early teenagers and I remember pulling wagons loaded with 8 foot logs (for pulp) over the choppin/cutover , over tree tops, stumps, holes etc. The front wheels rarely touched the ground. I often think while looking at these new tractors, from...i don't know, 1975 and up and think they do not look half as robust as they use to. It looks like you'd break one in half if you even attempted that stuff. Whats peoples thoughts on that?