Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

Ummmmmmmm something wrong with that conveyor use, sounds almost like the Three Stooges way of stacking wood, I do like that (tote) idea though. If I had a outside woodshed that's how I do firewood, then bring it to the house as needed.

My neighbor lives on a narrow lot, & gets deliveries from a tree guy when the owner doesn't want the wood. The tree guy backs his log loader truck down the driveway & drops the wood on the ground as far back as he can. We then would cut it to 18" to 20" lengths. The conveyor allowed us to move the splits away from the splitting area to make room for more logs to be dropped off. It sounds counter-productive, but there wasn't a lot of room to run a loader around the piles sometimes, just enough to fit the 2N & run the PTO to the conveyor. The 20 something foot conveyor moved the splits up out of the way, this allowed him to have 12+ cord on the small site any given time. Plus it was closer to the door to bring it inside. He hasn't bought heating fuel oil in 8 years. He uses LP for hot water & the cook stove, but uses all wood for heating. He does tell stories of the room with the stove being 90 degrees, & having to go to the back of the house or open a window to bring in 10 degree air just to cool down.

 

[Oldpath05]

Do you guys remember this oak? I probably posted a pict. of it in the "seat time" thread.



and that just left the stump. See the wire in it? Dad and me, put that fence up more than 50 years ago!!

We did a few others too, but that's all the picts for today! SR

That tree dont look like red oak that I have so much of, must be white oak. If barb wire could talk, my son has to watch out for stuff like that when sawing shingles, one time he hit a insulator, did a number on the carbide teeth.

 

[Oldpath05]

My neighbor lives on a narrow lot, & gets deliveries from a tree guy when the owner doesn't want the wood. The tree guy backs his log loader truck down the driveway & drops the wood on the ground as far back as he can. We then would cut it to 18" to 20" lengths. The conveyor allowed us to move the splits away from the splitting area to make room for more logs to be dropped off. It sounds counter-productive, but there wasn't a lot of room to run a loader around the piles sometimes, just enough to fit the 2N & run the PTO to the conveyor. The 20 something foot conveyor moved the splits up out of the way, this allowed him to have 12+ cord on the small site any given time. Plus it was closer to the door to bring it inside. He hasn't bought heating fuel oil in 8 years. He uses LP for hot water & the cook stove, but uses all wood for heating. He does tell stories of the room with the stove being 90 degrees, & having to go to the back of the house or open a window to bring in 10 degree air just to cool down.

This sounds like 12 cord of tree length firewood, that's a lot of wood for one season. I bring my firewood out tree length, 8-9 cord mostly in one pile. To avoid cutting it up in the pile I move 2-4 trees at a time with tractor forks away from the tree length pile, but doing that requires atleast 75' sq-ft, but I cant stand cutting tree length wood up on the wood pile, constantly moving cut up wood by hand out of the way.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That tree dont look like red oak that I have so much of, must be white oak. If barb wire could talk, my son has to watch out for stuff like that when sawing shingles, one time he hit a insulator, did a number on the carbide teeth.

Comparing the leaves to this pict.,

it's a "Swamp White"

SR

 

[goeduck]

Comparing the leaves to this pict.,

it's a "Swamp White"

SR

Interesting tree. I have a need for a deciduous tree to grow along a stream for shade and it looks like that might be a good choice. Most trees grow in our moderate climate so I may give it a try. The other tree I am looking at is northern Catalpa.

 

[CalG]

Interesting tree. I have a need for a deciduous tree to grow along a stream for shade and it looks like that might be a good choice. Most trees grow in our moderate climate so I may give it a try. The other tree I am looking at is northern Catalpa.

Catalpa in Vermont is a DIRTY tree. Drops a lot of stuff that is long and unsightly.

 

[goeduck]

Catalpa in Vermont is a DIRTY tree. Drops a lot of stuff that is long and unsightly.

The neighbor here has a huge one and the leaves blow onto my property in the fall, but other than that it is fairly clean. Few bean pods in this climate. I am not looking for a yard tree, I am looking for a stream tree separating cow pastures. I need shade to discourage invasive stream cloggers.

 

[shooterdon]

The neighbor here has a huge one and the leaves blow onto my property in the fall, but other than that it is fairly clean. Few bean pods in this climate. I am not looking for a yard tree, I am looking for a stream tree separating cow pastures. I need shade to discourage invasive stream cloggers.

Would willow trees work?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Interesting tree. I have a need for a deciduous tree to grow along a stream for shade and it looks like that might be a good choice. Most trees grow in our moderate climate so I may give it a try. The other tree I am looking at is northern Catalpa.

Thing is, that Swamp Oak wasn't near any swamp... lol

I have a Catalpa in my front yard, around here they like well drained soil, in fact mostly you see them in sandy soil...

Weeping willow grows like a weed, especially near a stream, I have quite a few of those too...

SR

 

[JerryK]

Bringing into the barn the first of 4 or 5 loads of wood for the winter. I have a boot 2-1/2 facecord of 18" in there already. I store/dry my split wood near the back of my property. Used to keep it closer, but had too much of a critter problem. First year I have used my little trailer. Have always carted wood with my carryall. But this year I have been spending a lot of time and effort on fixing up my old excavator, and my blower is still on the front of my 2555.