Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

I do a lot of thinning to. But if I filled my wood shed with this stuff I would never make it thru the winter. I only burn it in the early fall and spring so I can easily get over loaded with it. Most of it I give away because it is to hard to find someone who wants small wood and will buy it because we have so much good fire wood available around here. Especially hard maple, beech, yellow birch, ash, and the like.

To bad you guys aren't closer - I could load you up.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

Thanks for the offer GG, but I have plenty of that on my own land. The bigger stuff will go for pulpwood either now or in the future, or will grow into sawlogs. That's my other consideration; why burn something when I can sell it?

 

[Rustyiron]

Thanks for the offer GG, but I have plenty of that on my own land. The bigger stuff will go for pulpwood either now or in the future, or will grow into sawlogs. That's my other consideration; why burn something when I can sell it?

That's where I'm at too. I like rounds up to about 6-7", right into the rack with no splitting.

Don't think that I've ever seen a reflection of wood stacks in the water before yesterday

 

[Jstpssng]

That's where I'm at too. I like rounds up to about 6-7", right into the rack with no splitting.
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You have a lot less snow down there. It's still about 3' deep here... yet the sap hasn't run good in 3 weeks.

 

[Gordon Gould]

That's where I'm at too. I like rounds up to about 6-7", right into the rack with no splitting.

Don't think that I've ever seen a reflection of wood stacks in the water before yesterday

Don't think I have either Those are some nice racks Eric.

Most of the wood from my thinning isn't as big as 6" or 7". Here is a pic of where I would typically thin. It is looking across a fir stand that I cut the previous winter into some young hardwoods that needs thinning. Most of what I cut when thinning I just let lay to rot but I pull some out for myself and any of the neighbors that want some small wood.



gg

 

[MossRoad]

I like that telephone-pole sized and smaller stuff as well, mostly locust on our place, but I also have some cherry and sassafras coming out as I clear a maple grove. I much prefer the locust for firewood, but the others have to go, too, and I don't want it wasted, so I burn it. With my small machine, it comes out very fast and easy. Here's some pictures I posted last week over in the PowerTrac forum... sassafras and cherry to the left, locust to the right.

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[Creamer]

I had plans to bend electrical conduit on on some boards on the side of my trailer. the conduit would be bent in a U shape with relatively sharp corners so the logs would not roll in them. Then they were attached to boards on the side of the trailer so that once you were done cutting you just flipped each section up so that you dumped the cut pieces into the trailer and then all you did was straighten them out to have them stacked. There are plastic ones of these for sale on the web but I wanted bigger ones and it would have been lower cost to just make them out of conduit.

I didn't do this because I went to the cages I have so I use a cutting buck and then stack them in cages that I move with the tractor right to the door. The trailer is tougher to get into tight spaces in the woods and I need to unload it and use it again which meant more handling once I got it home.

 

[Paystar]

Well I woke up to this, this morning. But still managed to get 6 hours of cutting, splitting and piling in. Sun actually came out in the afternoon.

 

[Creamer]

Well I woke up to this, this morning. But still managed to get 6 hours of cutting, splitting and piling in. Sun actually came out in the afternoon.

What's wrong with that? It is much better to cut below freezing - not near as messy and a whole lot prettier!

 

[KenB2920]

That's where I'm at too. I like rounds up to about 6-7", right into the rack with no splitting.
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Can you send some closeups of those wood racks? All my racks are filled and those look nice. Can you move them full with your machine and pallet forks? What machine do you have? I see a Stihl sitting there too, which model.