Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Billrog]

Now I'm envious toughs are great looking logs in the last few posts. That's one beautiful cherry log & lumber SR.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I cut out an American Blk Cherry the wind blew over in my wood lot, That is the BEST cherry I've ever milled!!

SR

We have lots of Black Cherry up here but I have never seen one even close to that nice. Ours grow full of forks and the single stem tall ones look like a squiggly lightning bolt.
You made some beautiful lumber from that tree you salvaged.

Edit: That is a lot of 5/4 cherry. Is it for your own use or do you sell lumber you mill ??

 

[PSEbowhunter]

My humble contribution. Just started burning wood last year with an add on furnace. Trying to get a couple years ahead. Here's the tail end of todays work. A couple racks of oak and some maple from storm cleanup. Oak and mulberry in the back ground hoping they'll be dry enough to burn next winter. And another 3 racks of oak and 6 cherry out of the picture.




This was all pre tractor.



No idea how i put that thumbnail picture of the bucket in here, but i can't seem to delete it.

 

[Gordon Gould]

My humble contribution. Just started burning wood last year with an add on furnace. Trying to get a couple years ahead. Here's the tail end of todays work. A couple racks of oak and some maple from storm cleanup. Oak and mulberry in the back ground hoping they'll be dry enough to burn next winter. And another 3 racks of oak and 6 cherry out of the picture.

Welcome to TBN. No such thing of having to be humbled. Everybody enjoys seeing what you are doing. Size doesn't matter. That's a good charge of wood you are showing. To me being a year ahead is the name of the game. You never know what might happen. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending on how you look at it, today I had to break into next years supply. It has been a little cold here.

So how do you like burning wood and working up a wood pile ??

 

[Billrog]

That's a nice neat pile of fire wood you have there makes me envious as I haven't even got mine bucked up yet for next yr.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

My humble contribution. Just started burning wood last year with an add on furnace. Trying to get a couple years ahead. Here's the tail end of todays work. A couple racks of oak and some maple from storm cleanup. Oak and mulberry in the back ground hoping they'll be dry enough to burn next winter. And another 3 racks of oak and 6 cherry out of the picture.

This was all pre tractor.

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Welcome to the asylm! :laughing: Very nice pile, especially considering it was put up without using your tractor. Truly an accomplishment to be proud of. I started out the same way and it makes my back sore just lookin' at it

This was also my first year heating with wood, and like you I started with the cinder block racks. Quick and easy to put together, but then I realized that getting the wood to the stove would be a lot easier if I palletized the splits. That has worked out very well. None of the problems with mice have materialized. It's short work to move a pallet from the storage yard to the garage where it fits neatly in one corner, only a short roll away from the stove. I use a dolly like contraption I built to take it the splits the rest of the way, and each load lasts three or four days. The best part is that the pallet to dolly transfer takes place in the relative comfort of the garage.

There are lots of great harvesting/splitting/racking/moving ideas in this thread, and somewhere there's a picture or two of what I scraped together. Nobody here seems to mind sharing ideas, another great reason for joining TBN! :dance1:

 

[PSEbowhunter]

I'm really enjoying burning wood. Last year when we needed to get the propane filled was during the shortage. It was going to cost as much to fill the tank as it did to get the furnace, insulated chimney pipe, and duct work to hook it into the system. I'm running an Englander add on furnace and have learned a lot. It's not real efficient but it's getting the job done that's for sure. We've been using it pretty much as a primary furnace since I installed it last February, the propane only kicks on when the house gets below 60.

I really enjoy cutting wood. I've been helping family and friends since I could run a saw. They are all boiler folks though.

My plan is to upgrade to a good efficient furnace in about 4-5 years, I'm thinking a Kuuma. I tossed around the boiler idea but I don't really want to be married to it. Plus it's nice to be able to go down to the basement in my shorts and slippers to load the stove and not have to worry about the temps and snow. And WOW does the tractor/loader make it so much easier. I had been using my truck and ATV prior to getting the tractor this fall.

 

[Gordon Gould]

PSE = thats what I have - an Englander add on furnace in the basement. Except I use it stand alone - just let the air blow around out the top thru one elbow. I call it my radiant heat. All the floors upstairs are 80. Had it since 2001. Was going to put in duct work but haven't got to it yet. It works good the way it is.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

We have lots of Black Cherry up here but I have never seen one even close to that nice. Ours grow full of forks and the single stem tall ones look like a squiggly lightning bolt.
You made some beautiful lumber from that tree you salvaged.

Edit: That is a lot of 5/4 cherry. Is it for your own use or do you sell lumber you mill ??

I still have all of "that" cherry and one of these days I'm going to turn it into cabinets and some trim for my own use!

Glad you all liked the picts...

SR

 

[Rustyiron]

I still have all of "that" cherry and one of these days I'm going to turn it into cabinets and some trim for my own use!

Glad you all liked the picts...

SR

O, I see how you are, keepin the good stuff to yourself!
Don't blame you a bit. That's one ell of a cherry log!!