Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

I can in spurts, so I try to get something done between breaks. My back isn't operable, I have severe nerve damage, so this is a way of life for me, and it's been on going for many years.

Anyway, I'm happy for you, that they can get something done for yours, back operations have got pretty routine these days, if it's a fixable problem.

SR

I don't know, sometimes I think your pain is just a bit lower on your backside!! At least you've been one to Hunt on occasion! Gentlemen, I am just kidding, back pain is nothing to take lightly, I get my share of lower back pain too, probably too much over-doing it when I was young. Some days I think it hurts just to let me know I'm still alive. Mollala1 good luck Sir, hopefully they can get it sorted out for you.

 

[4570Man]

Cord and 1/2, plus tractor, bet the truck feels that going up hill.

It’s probably more like a 2-2.5 cord. The truck bed is 10 foot plus they’re sticking off a couple feet. The first load without the tractor behind it is sticking off more and loaded higher. I’m guessing about 7 tons on the first load and 5-6 on the second. The M59 is around 10,000 ( loaded tires ) and the trailer is 5500 and the truck is 11,500 empty. Yea it’s a big load for a 366 gas burner. Here’s another load on it. It’s a strong old truck.

 

[hunt4570]

They were only hollow, because they were full of lead, and I salvaged the lead out of them to make jacketed bullets out of it!

SR

So as a reloader I understand making the bullets, my question is how do you go about jacketing them?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

So as a reloader I understand making the bullets, my question is how do you go about jacketing them?

You start by buying or making your jackets, they look like a tube with one end closed. Then you buy rolls of pure lead wire to make cores, or you can cast your own cores out of pure lead. Next you need a press and for any ***** bullet of a bigger diameter/length, you need a "swage" press.

When it comes to bullets, you "swage" something bigger, and you "draw" it down to make it smaller.

It's a spl. press that creates HIGH pressures but has a short stroke, and then you also need the swage dies for the press, to seat the core in the jacket, then swage the core/jacket UP to the desired diameter and to the desired tip you want.

That is a very simplified explanation of how it all works and I can answer any specific questions anyone may have about bullet swaging.

BTW, I hope everyone knows I was BSing about there being lead in those rounds! lol

SR

 

[Skeans1]

A little from yesterday the stand is around 30 years old running a piece of 37’ export, a piece of domestic ranging from about 21’ to 41’ and a piece of pulp or all pulp.

 

[Jstpssng]

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If that was on this side of the continent I'd guess you were cutting white spruce. It's good to see that you can utilize wood that size. :thumbsup: We have a lot of small balsam fir stands which would really benefit from early age thinnings if we could sell the wood from it.

 

[Avenger]

Posted these over in the LS forum. Loaded some large logs for a friend to take to the mill.



They were blown down about 5 years ago. "Old Growth" pine or something. He is taking them to a 'specialty mill' to be turned into large 16"x16"x22' beams for a construction project he is working on. The LS struggled a bit with the heaviest one, but did very well overall.

 

[RUSTBUCKET BRONCO]

Skeans do you cut for Weyerhaeuser? Or are these your own trees. I live in Deer island right behind a tract of theirs and watched them clear a pretty good sized area in no time flat. Those machines are impressive.

Rust

 

[Skeans1]

Skeans do you cut for Weyerhaeuser? Or are these your own trees. I live in Deer island right behind a tract of theirs and watched them clear a pretty good sized area in no time flat. Those machines are impressive.

Rust

We have and do, we probably thinned that piece of ground back when it was all Longview Fibre.

 

[two_bit_score]

You start by buying or making your jackets, they look like a tube with one end closed. Then you buy rolls of pure lead wire to make cores, or you can cast your own cores out of pure lead. Next you need a press and for any ***** bullet of a bigger diameter/length, you need a "swage" press.

When it comes to bullets, you "swage" something bigger, and you "draw" it down to make it smaller.

It's a spl. press that creates HIGH pressures but has a short stroke, and then you also need the swage dies for the press, to seat the core in the jacket, then swage the core/jacket UP to the desired diameter and to the desired tip you want.

That is a very simplified explanation of how it all works and I can answer any specific questions anyone may have about bullet swaging.

BTW, I hope everyone knows I was BSing about there being lead in those rounds! lol

SR

We knew but that was a good explanation of the process for those amateurs like me.


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