Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[dieselcrawler]

I dropped 7 more locust trees yesterday morning, then came back in the evening with the tractor and the boys to cut them up. I drug them down to the medow where I started a burn pile, youngest boy piled limbs while the oldest used the 4wheeler to skid what he could pull up to the barn.

 

[Creamer]

Are you guys REALLY that **** about getting FIREWOOD all the same length??

SR

That all depends on what you call **** and how bad of length estimator you are.

 

[xring100]

Split some wood at the neighbors today, after 5 hours we decided to stop.
My daughter brought her tent and helped out sporadically bringing small pieces over to the table.
I Also picked up a New Stihl HT131 Pole saw and limbed a bunch of trees around the house

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Split some wood at the neighbors today, after 5 hours we decided to stop. My daughter brought her tent and helped out sporadically bringing small pieces over to the table. I Also picked up a New Stihl HT131 Pole saw and limbed a bunch of trees around the yard <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=461512"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=461511"/> <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=461513"/>

I have an HT131 myself, works awesome!

 

[xring100]

I have an HT131 myself, works awesome!

In the 15 minutes i used it today I would have to say its amazing. Way better than my cheap manual pole saw. Only downside that i can see is that it weighs as much or more than my MS660

 

[TomSeller]

In the 15 minutes i used it today I would have to say its amazing. Way better than my cheap manual pole saw. Only downside that i can see is that it weighs as much or more than my MS660

I have a Kombi 130, those 4 mix engines are good in my opinion. I have a BR600 blower with the 4 mix as well. Both run really well.

 

[square1]

Are you guys REALLY that **** about getting FIREWOOD all the same length??

SR

I don't burn it, i sell it. I have two customer that wants 14", so yes I am **** enough to keep them happy. If I sell wood by the cord the law says it is to be 48" wide. The State's W&M Inspector is pretty **** too.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I don't burn it, i sell it. I have two customer that wants 14", so yes I am **** enough to keep them happy. If I sell wood by the cord the law says it is to be 48" wide. The State's W&M Inspector is pretty **** too.

Selling it, is a whooooole lot different, than like the "mass majority" on here, who like me, just burn it!

I've never owned a wood stove yet, that gave a dam what the firewood going in it, looked like!

SR

 

[John_Mc]

I think I have it but a photo would be great!

So here are some pictures of my coat-hanger chainsaw firewood gauge. I don't use it for every cut, but it does come in handy when first starting out, or when I switch form one diameter log to another and need to recalibrate my eyeballs. Hope this helps.
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If I'm standing on the wrong side of the log, so the wire is pointing in the direction away from the log end, I just look where the end of the wire is while finishing up a cut, and that's where I move the saw to for my next cut. If I've already moved, rather than moving back to measure, I just eyeball that the distance from the tip of the wire to the bar is the same as the distance from the bar to the end of the log. It still comes out close enough. You;ve got something close by for scale, and it's pretty easy to position for the midpoint between the wire tip and the log end. (I hope that description made sense).

 

[dieselcrawler]

I don't burn wood either, but hope to at some point. What firewood I cut/split/stack is stored, in hopes of selling at some point, or when we get set up to use it. What I cut is leftovers from other projects, be it fallen dead wood I clean up, or stuff I cut for timber or locust post. Keeping it consistent size makes it easy to figure cords, and easy to stack. And as far as my OCD... we're not gonna talk about it...