Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[bcp]

Good find! All I find are water pipe and bed frame trailers for $800.

Bruce

 

[Gordon Gould]

I have these good for nothing Basswood's and have been getting rid of them "releasing" better species for growth. A "corduroy" road through some wet areas is about the only thing I do with them. I haul them in on the log trailer.
There is a "bottom" in that wet area, and the tractor will go through it but now you can walk it without rubber boots. Today I finished the last 12' or so after starting it last year.

I like your corduroy Rusty :thumbsup:

I never realized what poor firewood basswood made until I tried burning a big one that the power company cut down. Thought I was in hog heaven with all that easy wood. Yikes. If it's not a saw log a corduroy road is perfect use for it.

gg

 

[motownbrowne]

I like your corduroy Rusty :thumbsup:

I never realized what poor firewood basswood made until I tried burning a big one that the power company cut down. Thought I was in hog heaven with all that easy wood. Yikes. If it's not a saw log a corduroy road is perfect use for it.

gg

Not disagreeing with you guys here, but I'll just point out an exception. I burn quite a bit of poplar and basswood in my maple syrup evaporator. I split it into small pieces and my rig eats it up. It burns hot and fast when you give it tons of draft.

I'd certainly never try to heat my house with it. Maybe if you had a masonry heater or something like that, but it's definitely poor fuel for a woodstove.

The bees do like it, though.

 

[dieselcrawler]

How does basswood compare to something like poplar for building material? I have several I could use for interior barn beams, if they would be worth using.

 

[Slickheadhunter]

Opening up another new food plot location.

 

[motownbrowne]

How does basswood compare to something like poplar for building material? I have several I could use for interior barn beams, if they would be worth using.

I'm sure there's better sources on the internet than me, but I think it's fairly similar. As far as I know basswood is one of several species that gets milled and sold as "white wood" around here.

On second, thought, I probably shouldn't speculate. Here's a website that might help figure it out, though.

Wood Strengths

 

[Creamer]

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).

Thanks for the photos. That is what I was thinking from your description but I wanted to be sure.

 

[Creamer]

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

Sorry but I am lazy. I like as long as pieces as possible that will fit. Less cuts and less pieces to handle. But of course I always get a few that are too long and then my stove does give a dam and I may swear at it too.

 

[Greenland South]

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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Off topic question about your post. What program are you using to add text to your photos.
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).

John_Mc

Off topic question about your post. What program are you using to add text to your photos.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Too bad about wasting that basswood, it makes really nice lumber and woodworkers love it... Wish I had it!

SR