Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

I am working in the mud, I am not doing that with any of this wood. Firewood has to be a certain size, of certain types of wood, and CLEAN, CLEAN, CLEAN.

This wood can go to the paper mill, they do not care how muddy the wood is. (LOL)

But you still measure it in cords?

 

[hunt4570]

On TractorBynet, additional, helpful information is given freely without solicitation. (LOL)

Yes but it would be nice to get the info I was looking for first.

 

[Jstpssng]

But you still measure it in cords?

Now pulp and studwood generally are sold by weight, hence the mud adding to the value of the load. But yes, we still convert to cords when selling tree length wood.

 

[shooterdon]

5 Cords is impressive....at least for me. A plie of 8' logs 20' wide and 4' tall. Good job!

 

[hunt4570]

5 Cords is impressive....at least for me. A plie of 8' logs 20' wide and 4' tall. Good job!

That's 2-3 years of firewood for me..

 

[Loaderman22]

A lot of places I only have pine, spruce, and fir so I wimp out and carry a zip-lock of TP in the tool box or one of my wood vest pockets.

gg

Pine cones are not a good alternative, good plan GG!

 

[hunt4570]

Pine cones are not a good alternative, good plan GG!

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[BrokenTrack]

But you still measure it in cords?

This is kind of dicey. By Maine law, a person cannot sell tree length wood by the cord, only by the load or by weight. Since I am not going to have my trucker go find a scale, if I was to sell you firewood it would be X-amount per load. Of course your next question would be "so how many cords on a load", and I would say, "how many do you want."

It sounds shady, but it really is not. Truckers load wood several times per day so they can load on a pretty accurate measure of wood. They know what five cord looks like on their truck, or eight or seven.

I am an old throw back to the good ole days. I started out with a Ford 900 farm tractor, a woods trailer and loading wood in 4 foot sticks. Today everything is by loads, but I convert to cords by default.

 

[BrokenTrack]

Typically my production goes like this:

It takes about 7 decent sized trees to make a cord of wood. I have 7 chokers on my skidder, so I pull about 1 cord per twitch. Counting twitches per day gives me how many cords of wood I cut per day. Generally, I cut a twitch every hour, so about 1 cord per hour. That is why I can get a load per day (10 cord), but seldom put in a 10 hour day cutting wood; I just do not have it in me anymore. I am usually done about 2 PM, but I am pretty sick too.

It takes about 10 cord to fill a tri-axle truck, or 15 cords to fill a tractor trailer.

For hardwood logs, it takes about 75 to fill a tri-axle, or with softwood logs, about 125 logs. I typically d not ship logs on a tractor trailer. The log yard is only 7 miles away.

Even then logs can be converted to cords. A thousand board feet of logs equates to about 2 cord of wood.

I typically can cut a load of logs, or a load of firewood/pulp in two days time.

 

[goeduck]

Pine cones are not a good alternative, good plan GG!

At least they do not have a hole in them. :shocked: