Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

I hate to disappoint you, but your photos loaded just fine. :thumbsup: I did remove them from my quote though, there's no sense giving people too much of a good thing.

I'm not sure that I could lift two beams outstretched like that. Even with my new counterweights I would be afraid of going on another roller coaster ride on the front tires.

I wasn't sure what to expect when trying that, two is all I can lift, thought one oak is all I could do but they was setting for three dry weeks, the hemlocks were lot lighter. My tractor stayed on ground no problem there is only ballast filled tires and the pto winch, course that weighs quite a bit.

Now I'm thinking of putting steps on the 16 footers then find someone looking for adventure on trimming tree limbs.........

 

[Oldpath05]

Sawing the last 6x6 out of banana wood.
Sawing hemlock - YouTube

 

[Jstpssng]

Sawing the last 6x6 out of banana wood.
Sawing hemlock - YouTube

Nice job turning an ugly piece of turnip into something useful. :thumbsup: It's been a long time since I was working throughout the New England states, but I vaguely remember that they actually grow straight, tall hemlock in some parts of the world.

 

[Oldpath05]

Logs like this really put the manual into manual mill. My son wanted two 6x6's 20' long, my mill was maxed out with this crooked pine at 20'-4", maybe a 1/2' to spare and ended up with some nice 12" wide boards. Dont this northern white pine have a nice aroma to it, I even downloaded the pine scent on the video so them SC people can smell it, all they have to do is put their nose on the screen and push play......
Sawing a long pine - YouTube

 

[Oldpath05]

Nice job turning an ugly piece of turnip into something useful. :thumbsup: It's been a long time since I was working throughout the New England states, but I vaguely remember that they actually grow straight, tall hemlock in some parts of the world.

Straight logs are a lot easier to saw, I might have a couple left that are gun barrel straight, the real big straight ones are gone now but I'll have lot more in 50 years.

 

[John_Mc]

I guess garages are like garage doors, my first garage was 10' wide so this one I went 12'. I wonder how big one can go before the typical garage door opener wont work.........

It shouldn't really be an issue, since it's the springs that lift most of the weight: larger doors have larger springs.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The guy that does my garage doors, says he has put in a 30 footer, they make openers for them, no problem.

SR

 

[Loaderman22]

Sawing the last 6x6 out of banana wood.
Sawing hemlock - YouTube

You guys make it look so easy, and fun.

 

[John_Mc]

I guess garages are like garage doors, my first garage was 10' wide so this one I went 12'. I wonder how big one can go before the typical garage door opener wont work.........

It shouldn't really be an issue, since it's the springs that lift most of the weight: larger doors have larger springs.

The guy that does my garage doors, says he has put in a 30 footer, they make openers for them, no problem.

SR

I work for a company that makes millions of pounds of spring wire a month for the overhead garage door industry. The largest diameter we regularly make is 5/8". That makes for a big honkin' torsion spring, and large doors will have multiple springs on them.

40' wide powered doors on airplane hangars are quite common, and those are typically for small single engine aircraft. These are typically a bi-fold style door. Our small local airport has a 60 ft wide powered bifold door. These are typically opened by something resembling an electric winch or hoist.

 

[John_Mc]

Oldpath inspired me to dig up this picture. (Sorry, no tractor pictures, though my tractor did get used to transport the lumber back up to the site.)

We used a curved sugar maple as the collar-tie on a small timber frame pavilion I helped construct at a favorite hiking spot a few years ago. We needed at least one sugar maple log in the project, because this is Vermont, after all. The curve was because the timber framer loved putting a bit of "character" into his timber frames. The frame was constructed on top of the old dam control station for a reservior which was the water supply for a neighboring town many years ago.

The wood was harvested within a couple hundred yards of this site. It was sawed on the landing on this property, a couple thousand feet away. The furthest any of the wood traveled from this spot was to the timber framers shop 9 miles away. All of those volunteering for the project got a chance to help make the joinery and hand-hew one of the beams which had been left un-sawed just for that purpose.