Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Slickheadhunter · Jan 3, 2015

arrow said:
Love your tractor Slick. Would like to see some "action" shots of it skidding in a hitch or some other chore that demonstrates the brute force of a 4wd 4025.

Arrow,
My neighbor trying out my new 4025 soon after I bought it. Come March I should have some video of some skidding, I have a food plot to finish and looks like he may want another.

http://youtu.be/k6HPLPXxrk8

Billrog · Jan 4, 2015

Xring100 takes him about 15 mins. to cut 2 cords into 18" blocks for his stove and he can pick out a size so there's not splitting involved.
KiwiBro he's had up to 6 machines at one point but now just has the 1 and does very well. He cuts by the cu. meter contracting from logging company's with contracts from 100,000 to 500,000 cm logging shows.
Hutchman just the heads for those machines ( wartah ) he uses are $250,000 and to avoid fines from the mill logs must be cut to the 1/4" in length and sorted. I can understand why more loggers don't own them dangle heads take some getting use to to operate and are very easy to damage. The computer alone is $10,000 it records ever cm cut as well as keeping the length perfect.
I was visiting him a few yrs. ago when I took these picks we went to the site to service the machines before they were low bedded to the next block. I have a video so you could see how fast they process but don't have any idea how to load it.

Billrog · Jan 4, 2015

Tom as far as the firewood goes he doesn't care about the money some of them give him $20 or 50 or 100 what ever they can afford. He does very well he has had everything paid for for a no. of yrs. now . At work he does 6 to 9 off rd. logging truck loads a day @ $8 cm plus fuel and low bedding.

xring100 · Jan 4, 2015

Billrog said:
Xring100 takes him about 15 mins. to cut 2 cords into 18" blocks for his stove and he can pick out a size so there's not splitting involved.
KiwiBro he's had up to 6 machines at one point but now just has the 1 and does very well. He cuts by the cu. meter contracting from logging company's with contracts from 100,000 to 500,000 cm logging shows.
Hutchman just the heads for those machines ( wartah ) he uses are $250,000 and to avoid fines from the mill logs must be cut to the 1/4" in length and sorted. I can understand why more loggers don't own them dangle heads take some getting use to to operate and are very easy to damage. The computer alone is $10,000 it records ever cm cut as well as keeping the length perfect.
I was visiting him a few yrs. ago when I took these picks we went to the site to service the machines before they were low bedded to the next block. I have a video so you could see how fast they process but don't have any idea how to load it.

Wow thats impressive yeah a big wood stove stove would be nice my buddies dad has a central boiler at the farm in N.Y. mark says he only splits it if he cant lift it

PapaPerk · Jan 5, 2015

Here's a pic of a storm damaged walnut tree. Top was ripped out so I cut the rest down. Good pic of the skidder hitch in action.

TomSeller · Jan 5, 2015

PapaPerk said:
Here's a pic of a storm damaged walnut tree. Top was ripped out so I cut the rest down. Good pic of the skidder hitch in action.

<img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/owning-operating/405526-tractors-wood-show-your-pics-8-jpg"/>

Black walnut? That is a nice log.

TomSeller · Jan 5, 2015

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PapaPerk · Jan 6, 2015

TomSeller said:
Black walnut? That is a nice log.

Yes sir. Black walnut. Pretty wood! Being used for firewood. In hindsight I should have taken to the mill or at least given it away.

s219 · Jan 6, 2015

I'm burning the last of my walnut as we speak. Was cut about 4 years ago, storm damaged tree. Gave the 8' butt log to our builder to mill (he is a wood hoarder). Kept the next 8' log for myself and finally milled it last winter with my alaskan mill; should be just about seasoned and ready for use. And then all the rest of the tree got cut up for firewood. It burns decent enough and is about mid-range for heat/BTU content.

PapaPerk · Jan 6, 2015

s219 said:
I'm burning the last of my walnut as we speak. Was cut about 4 years ago, storm damaged tree. Gave the 8' butt log to our builder to mill (he is a wood hoarder). Kept the next 8' log for myself and finally milled it last winter with my alaskan mill; should be just about seasoned and ready for use. And then all the rest of the tree got cut up for firewood. It burns decent enough and is about mid-range for heat/BTU content.

Sounds good. Did it make nice boards?

I still have that log in the picture in my log pile. Maybe I could still get it milled. It's been sitting for about 2 years on the log stack. I actually need to make a wrap around mantle so maybe I could use it?! Any idea if I could saw mill an old log like that? I need to see if it has any rot.