Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[cat fever]

Nice pictures.

What size bar on the MS391? How's it handle it? Been giving one some thought.

Thanks citydude I like it up where I was cutting. I also ride my sled in the same basic area.

Farmer, I have the 18" bar. I have been using that size for 40 years. I could certainly put a longer one on if needed. I love this saw, it replaced another Stihl I had that gave up the ghost a couple years ago that was 40 years old. I sharpened the chain before leaving home, cut all this wood, then came home and cut it all up into stove sized pieces. Never dulled, ran like a champ. I would give Stihl a fair look.:2cents: I know everyone has a different opinion about saws, but if I was going to buy another saw today it would be a Stihl.

 

[DieselBound]

BIG wood,VS BIG saw...and three small machines.... The saw and machines won!....

I took down a big Poplar trunk in a friends backyard during the last couple weekends. Tree was topped a couple years ago over a dispute about a limb falling over on his neighbors lawn..... I wanted the big tree and did the job. Tree was 5'3 diameter on the butt and never lost more than a foot or so up to 50 feet. I used a Stihl MS-880 Magnum with a 50" Cannon Superbar for falling and bucking and an MS-461 with a 28" bar for cleaning up the notch and trimming.
It took my Boomer 41, New Holland E27B mini-ex, and 40C John Deere crawler to get the two main logs up the steep bank. They weigh 5-6 tons each. The tree was solid all the way through. It was quite a project. Pics

Had a professional drop this one (too close to the house, didn't want to risk it). My 562xp with 18" bar turned it into rounds that were manageable. "Only" 44" at the butt: one day I'll go out and measure the BIG ones I have

 

[cat fever]

Had a professional drop this one (too close to the house, didn't want to risk it). My 562xp with 18" bar turned it into rounds that were manageable. "Only" 44" at the butt: one day I'll go out and measure the BIG ones I have

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That looks like the log on King Kong that they crossed the deep ravine on.:laughing:

 

[4570Man]

Was it solid or rotten? There would have been a lot of lumber in that tree.

 

[DieselBound]

It was solid, healthy. If I wanted to cut down a couple more I could have gotten someone to buy them off of me, but I don't go looking to cut trees just to cut them (or get money from them): my firewood basically comes from stuff that gets broken off -Maples like to break- or knocked down. Cottonwood is pretty worthless around here. I buried the cut-up pieces.

Here's one of the biggest cottonwoods on the property (I think that we've got an even bigger Fir, and possibly this other cedar):

 

[ultrarunner]

I had taken out several very large firs after a storm toppled some with one just missing the house... ever since I view trees a little different based on how much damage if toppled.

Never been able to sell any... a couple of my retired neighbors have been happy to pick up the rounds.

Blackberry seems to thrive wherever sunlight comes through.

 

[DieselBound]

I had taken out several very large firs after a storm toppled some with one just missing the house... ever since I view trees a little different based on how much damage if toppled.

Never been able to sell any... a couple of my retired neighbors have been happy to pick up the rounds.

Blackberry seems to thrive wherever sunlight comes through.

Blackberries, what are those?



Keeping with the theme of this thread (firewood- Maple):

 

[ultrarunner]

Fir and Cedar are the only large trees I have in Washington... old Coastal Oak in Oakland... of course.

Basically not allowed to burn in Oakland which means folks pay to have Oak hauled away... it's free and sometimes that includes delivery since wood burning stoves and fireplaces are banned in new construction.

One of the Olympia firs measured 55" at the stump...

The maples seem to grow like weeds... maybe 4' in a year... I had cleared a section for a better view and in four years it has all come back

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Cottonwood is pretty worthless around here. I buried the cut-up pieces.

What a waste!!

SR

 

[Creamer]

What a waste!!

SR

What would you do with cottonwood/