Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[gladehound]

Here's one picking up "sticks" with the tractor and another of my daughter "helping" me process wood.

 

[Sterff]

Split another load of wood yesterday. It was much easier loading it with the Kubota then unloading it by hand.

 

[MaineTom]

Moving some rounds around...real back saver that BX! :cool2:

 

[Gordon Gould]

I love seeing all the different ways and all the different equipment you all use to do essentially the same basic task. It is really amazing and the best part is that everyone gets the job done their own way.

I work up my firewood a couple hours at a time - as the opportunity arises and the mood strikes. It's not to efficient that way and I don't hurry but by the end of the hot weather there is enough wood for us and some to sell. Today was to hot to get involved in much so I split some wood while my spot was still shady this morning.





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[Mike68]

I was splitting and stacking wood today. My friend's kid comes over occasionally to help me out around the yard.



I like to stack on pallets to keep the wood off the ground. Each row is about 2/3 of a cord. I get two rows per row of pallets. 7 rows down many more to go.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Mike I see you are from Granby. Back in the late 60's I worked at Ham-Standard, lived in Enfield near Warehouse Point. There was a nice brook in Granby I liked to fish. Back then the whole area was pretty rural with all the tobacco farms but developing fast. I often wonder what it is like now.

 

[Baby Grand]

Mike I see you are from Granby. Back in the late 60's I worked at Ham-Standard, lived in Enfield near Warehouse Point. There was a nice brook in Granby I liked to fish. Back then the whole area was pretty rural with all the tobacco farms but developing fast. I often wonder what it is like now.

It's been "developed". In some places over-developed, which is a shame. There's still some shade tobacco being grown for wrappers. But you might find it a little hard to recognize the place if you've been away since the 60's. The tinsel factory, at Warehouse Point, has really fallen in to disrepair. It's kind of hard to look at it and not think about all the jobs that used to be in there, behind all the broken windows & graffiti. I sure wish someone would at least turn it into apartments or something of use.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Sorry to here that about the tinsel factory. That was a classic old brick factory. Being right on the canal like it is I am surprised someone has not rehabbed it and the area surrounding it.

 

[Mike68]

I grew up in East Hartford along the Glastonbury town line. The Glastonbury Meadows under the Putnam Bridge was my playground. Fishing, Hunting, and dirt bike riding. Now the area is closed off and the tobacco fields along the road to the meadows are all shopping malls.

We moved to Granby 7 years ago. Still feels rural to us. Trout fishing in Salmon Brook is always fun. We have 5.3 acres in a nice little corner of town. Quiet. I cannot hear my neighbors. At night the fireflies are awesome. We love it.

Besides, it is just big enough that I was able to justify the tractor and some toys to go with it.

 

[Piston]

Hauling some scrap slabs to the junk pile while moving some timbers up the road.

I just don't know what I would do without my grapple!

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Eric that pile makes your tractor look small.

You keep mentioning lake shore but I can't remember seeing you post any lake pictures, maybe I missed them. Is MN like VT in it's lake shore restrictions in that you are not allowed to clear or significantly thin along a shoreline and any cutting at all in general requires a DNR permit ??

Many are the rules in Minnesota.

http://www.co.hubbard.mn.us/Environmental/Shoreland Guide to Lake Stewardship.pdf

http://files.dnr.state.mn.us/waters/surfacewater_section/hydrographics/ohwl.pdf

The take away is this: lots must be an average of 150 feet wide, have 2.25 acres, while buildings must be setback 100 feet from the ordinary high waterline (which has moved due to the engineering fiddling on the three lake chain). By yanking out all these dead trees, I'm probably shooting myself in the foot because I'm removing historical evidence of the the ordinary high water line. I figure the surveyor I hire will be able to figure it out when I get him or her involved.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Cutting and hauling firewood. Not sure if it is easier to cut it up in the woods then put it in the trailer or use the boom to lift the logs on then take them off for processing at a landing. .

 

[Baby Grand]

Any of you guys use a barking spud?
No, it's not a noisy tater.

I started using one 2 years ago and the fire wood stays a lot cleaner without the bark and the bugs that live under it. It's a home made item that I found at a used tool place. I suspect it's intended use was for ice removal.

Looks like a 3" length of cutting edge with a welded on shank and fit with a cut down 3' wood handle from some other tool. It was pre-painted don't-eat-me-orange to help me avoid driving over it & a good match with my helmet, saws & tractor. I rounded the cutting edge, so it looks like a big gouge for a wood lathe.
Works great on everything but a green ash that seems to have the bark welded on.

 

[s219]

I use a bark spud (bought from Peavey Mfg, made in USA logging tools) to cleanup any logs I am using for posts or woodworking projects. Works great, and gives a pretty look. Don't use it on firewood though.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Todays contribution to the firewood pile



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[Luke'sScreenName]

Todays contribution to the firewood pile

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Nice! What kind of wood?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nice! What kind of wood?

Part of an old Sugar Maple

 

[arrow]

Cutting and hauling firewood. Not sure if it is easier to cut it up in the woods then put it in the trailer or use the boom to lift the logs on then take them off for processing at a landing. .

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If of any help, the aspect of removing timber from woods in the most efficient way possible is to keep the tree as together as it can be and still be dragged or skidded or forwarded out of the wood and onto a landing.
The reasoning for this was 1. efficiency 2. safety. Too often surrounding growth in a tightly grown forest gets in the way of production (efficiency) and what one doesn't need is to trip over any of this growth with a roaring chainsaw while attempting to remove wood (safety).
In a former job, we broke this rule as little as possible leaving whole crowns separated from their stems as the only cuts made while in the woods. Today making firewood as a regular homeowner, I now drag the crowns out as together as allowed to make it through the wood and cut these up on a landing.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

We have an old one in front of our house. House was built about 1760 and in a photo we have from around 1890 the tree is just as massive as it is now. It's on the way out. Can't say I'm looking forward to the day I have to make it into firewood.

 

[TomSeller]

Any of you guys use a barking spud?
No, it's not a noisy tater.

I started using one 2 years ago and the fire wood stays a lot cleaner without the bark and the bugs that live under it. It's a home made item that I found at a used tool place. I suspect it's intended use was for ice removal.

Looks like a 3" length of cutting edge with a welded on shank and fit with a cut down 3' wood handle from some other tool. It was pre-painted don't-eat-me-orange to help me avoid driving over it & a good match with my helmet, saws & tractor. I rounded the cutting edge, so it looks like a big gouge for a wood lathe.
Works great on everything but a green ash that seems to have the bark welded on.

A picture would be worth a thousand