Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Rustyiron]

This isn't the neatest pile, but I didn't want to drill holes in my bucket to mount the forks which my father made for my last tractor.

That's a nice stack of wood! All firewood?

 

[Jstpssng]

That's a nice stack of wood! All firewood?

Thanks. It's spruce studwood, if I ever get the load finished.

 

[PhysAssist]

SR

Great chart Rob, but where are MY other go-to woods??
They are: yellow locust and black cherry- because we have a lot of those, and they cleared a ton of them to put out house here, so I burned them for years after we moved in.

Apple is in there, but does crab-apple have the same properties?

We have also burned a lot of yellow birch, I love the way it smells when it burns, and as the bark and under-bark layers have more resin than paper birch, they're great fire-starters too.

Some people here call it river birch, but they're quite different, and river birch isn't native here, while yellow is.

 

[Oldpath05]

My interpretation of White maple and a scumbag Beach to the right and further back that should've been cut ten years ago like 90% of Beach on my land. I got that one and some others like it before it went to rot.

 

[Rustyiron]

Oldpath, ya gotta catch & cut those Beech trees before they get too bad with the "Beech Bark Disease". Look for the "cankers" forming on the bark or other irregularities. Beech is one of our high btu's wood and grows faster than the oaks & hickory's, but grown out in the open they get very "limby" as you know. I cut & burn quite a bit of Beech, 22.7 (million BTU's per cord) where Red oak is 22.1, Red maple & white birch is 20. If you have any shagbark hickory, its up at 25.3 and Hornbeam is 26.4!

 

[Jstpssng]

Oldpath, ya gotta catch & cut those Beech trees before they get too bad with the "Beech Bark Disease". Look for the "cankers" forming on the bark or other irregularities. Beech is one of our high btu's wood and grows faster than the oaks & hickory's, but grown out in the open they get very "limby" as you know. I cut & burn quite a bit of Beech, 22.7 (million BTU's per cord) where Red oak is 22.1, Red maple & white birch is 20. If you have any shagbark hickory, its up at 25.3 and Hornbeam is 26.4!

I won't put beech in my pulpwood pile, because I would rather burn it. About the only thing listed higher than hornbeam is orange osage, at 30 BTU/cord... I wouldn't know osage if it fell on my head. I've been experimenting with forming hornbeam saplings for eventual use as a cane, if I ever get to the point of needing one. It will take a few years to get one big enough to see if it works.

 

[Rustyiron]

Harder than woodpecker lips!:laughing:
I took a small pole, handrail size and skinned the park off and let it dry inside the shop for a year. When I decided to put it up (stair handrail) after I stained and poly'd it, it broke every screw I put in it. I made some "hookaroons" and a walking stick out of it and found a nice pc of ash for the railing.

here's 2 of them

 

[Jstpssng]

The old guy I prune apple trees for was saying that he use to make canoe paddles from it.

 

[Rustyiron]

.... and Pitman arm on old sickle bar cutters.

 

[Gordon Gould]

The old guy I prune apple trees for was saying that he use to make canoe paddles from it.

If your using Hop Hornbeam for paddles over there you must have a bunch of gorillas riding the rapids They won't break but they wont hardly float either.

Canes sound neat !!

gg