Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Jstpssng]

Crazy, yes but I'm one of lucky ones here who can mill their own lumber and my son has a shingle mill, so I can built it and also get shingles at a discount, his mother said so, and that might be one of the reasons why there isn't so many lumber mills nowadays, alot of land owners now have their own bandmill, so instead of people working in a lumber mill, they're working at a bandmill manufacturing company making portable bandmills. The end result is now I can e get the best price on a 2x4, and who doesn't need a 2x4....

I may have sent wood to him this winter. :thumbsup:

I remember back in the 60s, there were lumber mills everywhere and some of them were huge, ten acres of sawed lumber stacked up, but now very few lumber mills around. Also in Maine there is no one now that does big circular saw blade work, my son has to take his shingle mill blades to Canada to someone with broken english to get them hammered out, imagine that taking a hammer to a saw blade so is to get it running true, it's getting to be a lost art. Not only that but my son also has to compete with Canadian shingles sold at HD and that makes it a whole different challenge.

Yet a large part of that is because the major producers are running bandsaws... I have to say that it's pretty neat (and efficient) to watch them saw logs on both strokes of the carriage. That's why we can send small logs with a 5" top to the mill. Then again all that I know about hammering blades is from reading the "Saw Doctor" in the Northern Logger.

Snobdds <<<<<WOW that was a good read, you should post that on that other thread on TBN, something about>>>> New Trump Tariffs.
Your house was likely built with Canadian lumber, and itç—´ reigniting a trade war The Point Bangor Daily News BDN Maine

Ancient history though. Citing new tariff, Jackman lumber mill to add jobs, second shift Business Bangor Daily News BDN Maine

 

[Jstpssng]

I hope that you start a thread on this once you get it up and running. I can haul my logs 2 miles down the road and get them sawn by somebody who knows what he's doing; but there's a lot of small wood on my property that it would be nice to utilize... I have small fir that would make good shed studs, if I can square one or two sides.

 

[goeduck]

Oh no... say it ain't so!

I am afraid it is so. I found one last piece that is in the wheelbarrow to go into the wood stove tonight. This one has only a few markings, some where very colorful. It was just rotten wood to me but now I know, 2 cords later. It actually put out some good heat.

 

[4570Man]

There's a fine line with spalted maple of being too far gone and not spalted. I prefer ambrosia maple. Curly maple is my favorite, but pretty scarce to find and expensive to buy.

 

[dragoneggs]

I am afraid it is so. I found one last piece that is in the wheelbarrow to go into the wood stove tonight. This one has only a few markings, some where very colorful. It was just rotten wood to me but now I know, 2 cords later. It actually put out some good heat.
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There's a fine line with spalted maple of being too far gone and not spalted. I prefer ambrosia maple. Curly maple is my favorite, but pretty scarce to find and expensive to buy.

True enough... I burned up some questionable spalted maple from a clearing on my property. Some I saved and it is laying (rotting) until I figure a way to properly salvage it. Don't have enough to afford buying (or renting) a mill saw. I should at least invest in a vertical bandsaw (been on my list for years) and give it a go.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I bought the two missing screws for the recoil starter on my 268xp, so it was ready for business again today...

My helper came over today and we cut out another tornado damaged oak, and I got started skidding it out,

With all the limbs off it I got both halves skid out,

And, after cutting the halves into quarters, I lifted them over my wagon with my tractor and the 268 did it's magic, and S N we had a nice amount in the wagon,

Judging from amount in there, I'd say it's about one cord...

It was short day, but we both had other things we needed to get done today...

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

I had a awful firewood itch today with new snow to work in, it would've been a lot better if the sun was out and the chickadees was chickadeeing, but a itch is an itch and with a ft&half of snow I was glad it only took 3 hrs to get rid of the itch, I could only imagine how hard it would be to scratch this hard all day.

Now dont this look like fun>>>> And here's the target>>>>> Then it took me ten minutes trying to decide whether or not to cut off 4' of rot, decided well it's beach and the outer part is solid so it's a go>>

Of course just after I get started had to get a stick jamb up in between the skid plate>>>

Boy did this tree haul hard>>

 

[Jstpssng]

This snow moves hard, and we may have more coming on Tuesday. (9-16" up here.)

 

[Mikejeakins]

I've already got people putting in for requests for more firewood.

 

[Oldpath05]

This snow moves hard, and we may have more coming on Tuesday. (9-16" up here.)

Yes and the two weather stations I watched tonight said over 10", otta be great for making syrup and getting tractors stuck.