Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[arizona98tj]

With the snow temporarily gone, I spent a couple days in the woods as the frozen ground is nice to work on.

Took down an oak that lost several limbs in a wind storm this past summer. I cut it into rounds and split the main trunk pieces to give it a head start on drying. Will split the remaining pieces this spring and finish splitting the pieces I already did this week. It will probably then dry for another year in my wood shed before using in our stove.

 

[4570Man]

I cut a pretty good pile of wood. I narrowly avoided crisis on one piece.

 

[goeduck]

I cut a pretty good pile of wood. I narrowly avoided crisis on one piece. View attachment 530572View attachment 530573

Yikes! How did you even see that? Looks like it was a half nail pressed in on the surface? Or is it bent over?

You win the award for the best woodshed.

 

[4570Man]

Yikes! How did you even see that? Looks like it was pressed in on the surface? Or is it bent over?

You win the award for the best woodshed.

I didn't see it until after I'd already cut. Not hitting it was pure luck. It's nailed in and got bent over at some point.

 

[Thall303]

Just imagine the history of that nail?

 

[4570Man]

Just imagine the history of that nail?

If I had a guess I'd say it used to hold up a hanging plant or a bird feeder. I've been pretty lucky and only hit a couple of things in a couple hundred rick of wood. I've found some really doozies with the splitter though. The current count is about a dozen 20 penny nails, dozens of smaller nails, several lag bolts, and some fence wire.

 

[4570Man]

I cut another good pile of bigger wood today. The sawmill gives me these logs because there's supposed to be metal in them. Only one log in that dump truck load actually had metal. I've cut loads from them before and only found 2 logs with metal. The last 2 loads had already been through the debarker. That's pretty nice firewood.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nasty looking spike 4570 - lucky you missed it.

My day wasn't so lucky. I brought a load of spruce/fir logs to the saw mill I have gone to for years and years and years. He told me he was shutting the mill down, cleaning out the log yard, and would not saw after Jan 1st. He took my load but does not want anymore logs. Now-a-days it is too hard to find anyone who wants to work he said. So he is going to shut down and be a typical retail lumber dealer. No more saw mill. Very depressing.



gg

 

[4570Man]

Any other mills close enough to haul to? Looking on the bright side, maybe you could get your own bandsaw mill now.

 

[Gordon Gould]

There is a log yard close by. They actually pay slightly better for spruce/fir but I don't use them. For me they are good for hard wood and pine but on spruce/fir their minimum length is 12 footers. The saw mill took 10 footers and up. I can put on 500 bd-ft of 12's and 10's, 30/70 or 40/60 maybe, but if I load just 12's the nose of the truck is in the air in a hurry. It has an 8' bed and the axle is 4'-6" back. A log cut 10'-6" hangs 1 foot over the tail gate. A 12 footer is 3 feet over. If anyone knows how to beat this problem let me know. I don't know much about truck suspensions.

gg