Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[BrokenTrack]

When I was 15 years old I started logging with a Ford 900 Farm tractor and a woods trailer; had to fell, limb, then buck the tree into 4 foot lengths, walk through the brush to load the wood onto the trailer, then haul it next to a road.

Today I got better chainsaws, winches, log loaders, four wheel drive tractors, skidders and bulldozers, yet I never forgot where I started from. It is easier today, but we still logged the same parts of the farm we used to. I commend anyone who gets out into the woods and cuts wood. There is no wrong way to do it, just getting out in the woods is enough.

 

[Thomas]

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Well said. :thumbsup:

 

[s219]

I commend anyone who gets out into the woods and cuts wood. There is no wrong way to do it, just getting out in the woods is enough.

Yep, great way to look at it. Although I have to say, I figure out a lot of "wrong" ways in the process! Sometimes I think my felling knowledge is primarily based on avoiding what went wrong last time. I have learned a lot of specialized cuts in the process.

 

[Jstpssng]

No need for water, just shove the log into the chute, put a horse onto it, and down over the mountain it would go.

I would be interested in knowing what area of New Hampshire you were in. I have an old logging book that has a lot of information about New Hampshire logging in the 1800's and into the early 1900's. I do not remember reading anything about metal flumes though. Notched wooden ones were quite common too.

I live in Maine, but have a house in New Hampshire too, and have a lot of family that lived and worked in new Hampshire forests for Parker and Young, etc.

I was just outside Milan, NH. I don't remember exactly where, it was about 15 years ago but I do remember that I had to go across USFS land to get there.

 

[Oldpath05]

A tornado went through there... It will NEVER all be cleaned up, I'm just taking the best of the worst... lol

EVERYONE sure loves my Jonsered 2260!

Next will be to get this load split...

SR

Some of that bark looks really coarse, probably loaded with dirt which is ok for midwestern dirt, I heard midwest dirt self sharpens the saw chain as it cuts through the wood. I bought a 2171 Jonsered around 15 years ago so I could have something for big wood, still runs great and now running a 24" bar and since it's alot heavier than the 550xp I dont use it that often, but when needed it's nice to have.

 

[Oldpath05]

The new cable is on the tractor winch and ready for a stress test, I know I got stressed out putting it on. Some of you might know why by looking at the first picture, also I learned that I should of put that green line on the center lever coupling in the second picture, it goes on two different ways but only works right one way, must be nice for those who can do things once. After I got the cable on I did what someone said here, hooked the cable to tree and winched it in, a 133' is a long ways.

 

[Rustyiron]

I gotta get me a mill!

:thumbsup:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Some of that bark looks really coarse, probably loaded with dirt which is ok for midwestern dirt, I heard midwest dirt self sharpens the saw chain as it cuts through the wood. I bought a 2171 Jonsered around 15 years ago so I could have something for big wood, still runs great and now running a 24" bar and since it's alot heavier than the 550xp I dont use it that often, but when needed it's nice to have.

Some times there's no getting around it, dirt kills a chain, but I carry sharp spares and change them as needed...

I LOVE my 550xp too,

I switched it over to 3/8's chain and it's been a GREAT saw...

SR

 

[BrokenTrack]

Stick with the 550 XP, and do NOT "upgrade" to the Husky 562 XP; what a junk saw!

I not-so-affectionately call it my "rattle box" because so many bolts and parts have rattled off the saw. Really under-powered; barely tolerable when it is razor sharp, but the second it even begins to dull, a person would be better off with an axe.

I will admit it was my own fault as even the dealer tried to talk me out of buying it, calling it a "disposable saw." "Buy it for $750, run it for a year, then trade it in at $350 for a new one".

Pretty soon though she will be out in the woods everyday, because like an old Partner Chainsaw my father had, when I finally get mad at it and toss it headlong over a brush pile; that is where it will remain.

 

[rd_macgregor]

That lady needs more safety equipment!