Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

I found the stake video again. Just operator error.

They make skip chain for Alaska/ripping mills but also for regular cross cutting. Your slabs cut pretty well I thought. Probably because it wasn't solid wood. You had a lot of edges and voids in there. Here is the best explanation I have found on skip chain advantage from an Arborist site:

"The primary advantage to semi or full skip is when cutting larger logs. The wood chips are carried out between the cutter teeth and having more room for those chips in a larger log allows the teeth to continue cutting until they exit the log and dump the chips.

When the gap between teeth fill up the tooth really can't do much more but vibrate and rattle. On smaller stuff regular chain will work better because the teeth exit and dump often enough not to need the extra spacing."

A couple other advantages are less teeth to sharpen on long bars and less drag when using a bar that is to long for the power of the saw. I had a guy I worked with who liked a Husky 359 with a 3/8 .058 gauge skip chain on a 24" bar. He thought it was lighter and handled better that a bigger saw with a full chain on a 24" bar. Now a days with the small kirf chains and better power to weight ratios there are more options.

gg

Yup that makes since to me, most of my firewood is on the small side 6-12"

 

[Jstpssng]

What rotten weather all that wonderful snow is all gone if I use my tractor now I'll ruts a foot deep, just going to work this morning I stepped in 6" of mud in part of my driveway.

With most of the snow gone, most of my driveway is a sheet of ice again. The rest is slush and/or running water.

 

[goeduck]

Not very exciting. Wood shed at the cabin was getting low. On the hunt for some birch for next year and some standing dead spruce for this year. Not really that far ahead, but don't burn more than a cord through a typical winter.
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Big Uns on the left

 

[Oldpath05]

Not very exciting. Wood shed at the cabin was getting low. On the hunt for some birch for next year and some standing dead spruce for this year. Not really that far ahead, but don't burn more than a cord through a typical winter.
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That sounds like decoration heat, must not take long get a winters supply out with winch, I go through 8 cord from Nov-June. Looks like an electric wood splitter out in the middle of the woods, probably solar powered.

 

[Oldpath05]

Did SR move to Zimbabwe........... haven't seen any resent pictures or comments, maybe I'll give him a call, Wallenstein skidding winches, trailers with 4 wheels and Honda generators are crap...........

 

[Jstpssng]

Did SR move to Zimbabwe........... haven't seen any resent pictures or comments, maybe I'll give him a call, Wallenstein skidding winches, trailers with 4 wheels and Honda generators are crap...........

:stirthepot:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Can you quiet it down in here! I'm trying to hibernate!!

SR

 

[goeduck]

Can you quiet it down in here! I'm trying to hibernate!!

SR

Hibernate? There is wood to be cut! And TBN threads to read...

 

[hunt4570]

What rotten weather all that wonderful snow is all gone if I use my tractor now I'll ruts a foot deep, just going to work this morning I stepped in 6" of mud in part of my driveway.

I NEVER get mud!! Even when wet, sand does not turn to mud! And sand is about all I have..

 

[hunt4570]

Did SR move to Zimbabwe........... haven't seen any resent pictures or comments, maybe I'll give him a call, Wallenstein skidding winches, trailers with 4 wheels and Honda generators are crap...........

Yup, that did the job!:thumbsup: Hibernation is over..