Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Mikejeakins]

So I went and bought me a little sawmill so I have a new use for the ol Kubota!





Stocking up, mill should be here next week!

What kind of mill did you get?

 

[hunt4570]

What kind of mill did you get?

I bought a Woodmaxx SM26e (the "e" is for electric start cause I'm old and don't want to pull that cord all the time!! ;-) ) Its just a small manual mill for me to use at my place for personal projects.

Portable Saw Mill | Saw Mill | WoodMaxx Saw Mill | 26" Saw Mill | Electric Start

 

[Gordon Gould]

Hey OldP I guess we both know that if you cut enough trees a pinched saw is going to happen some where along the way. Looks like you got it on the ground OK. I see your wood pile is growing pretty good.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

I went to the Log Yard today to pick up last weeks check. The piles are getting big so took a couple pictures. This is just the Spruce/Fir pile and I couldn't get it all in with 2 shots. Not every stick was mine, I got some help from a few local boys





gg

 

[Oldpath05]

I am always afraid they will go backwards on top of me. So I strap up high, rope/chain WAY back and pull it my direction. I see your L3400 ROPS is super stout. Did you make it?

Yup, one of the first things I made I didn't think the standard ROPs give enough protection. The whole cage can be taken off by unbolting if this tractor ever sees farm work.

Gotta be careful when doing this,tree could break off of stump and fall back over the bucket and onto you,ask me how I know. Better to pull with cable and winch.

40 years ago when I first started cutting wood for someone with a JD440 skidder, I was cutting a big ole scrub pine for a load of pine pulp, pinch my saw, waited for the boss to come back in, he put the blade against the big pine, I got my saw out and backed away, the boss started to push hard on the scrub pine, it snapped off the stump fell back on the skidder, bout buried it, he gave that skidder full throttle, forward and back, wiggled it, after 15 minutes he got it out from under then he cussed me out, so yeah I learn one important lesson, Cut higher on back and leave a good hinge.

With a double-stem tree like that, I always cut one stem at a time. Never mind the wind -- the problem as I see it is that you didn't have a predictable way for gravity to act on the notch and hinge in a specific direction. I'm not surprised it sat on the saw.

Oh I had a predictable way for the tree to go and it did go that way with help from the tractor. It would've gone by itself to but I just did get around the other side with the back cut enough, I just assume I did without looking and the wind was gusting to 40 mi/hr against the tree and the wind just blew it back on the bar and since I knew I had a good hinge left on the double tree, I just put the bucket against it and tilt it,and wahala, course a couple wedges and an axe could of done the same thing.

 

[Oldpath05]

Hey OldP I guess we both know that if you cut enough trees a pinched saw is going to happen some where along the way. Looks like you got it on the ground OK. I see your wood pile is growing pretty good.

gg

Yeah I know right, you know how it is...............

 

[Oldpath05]

I went to the Log Yard today to pick up last weeks check. The piles are getting big so took a couple pictures. This is just the Spruce/Fir pile and I couldn't get it all in with 2 shots. Not every stick was mine, I got some help from a few local boys

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gg

So where is all that spruce and fir going? And I thought I was piling the wood high.......................

 

[Gordon Gould]

So where is all that spruce and fir going?

A good amount goes to Canada. 40 miles north straight up Rte 91. Logs head north, dimensional lumber comes back. Saw Mills here going broke. Hard to figure. The rest I have no idea where it goes. Stud mills NH and Maine probably get a fair share.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Same here, most logs go to Canada, comes back as lumbur at HD. We can get by nowadays with using less paper and we probably dont need so many paper mills like 50 years ago, but building houses still needs lumber.

 

[dragoneggs]

30+ years ago, I had almost an acre cleared of medium to large fir/cedar/hem-fir in the Seattle area. I sold the logs to pay off the excavation and foundation work for my future home. I got the best rate going to Canada even with the extra truck mileage. Seems times haven't changed.