Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[mred2]

Copy rights are a way from people not resaling your talent without permission. If you wrote a good book and did not have copy rights, I could buy one copy. Put it up on the internet and never pay you another penny for your work. I could make money off of your work. It has been stated that you can play 30 seconds of music, but even this is not true. It is just that you don't have the money for them to come after you. But they might go after You tube.

 

[KennyG]

YouTube is very conservative about copyright but also haphazard. Our church posts videos of the services and they sometimes get flagged in spite of having all the authorizations listed on the video. Others get through with no problem.

 

[Oldpath05]

I didn't know there was a way to time a chainsaw, I would think saws would only have one timing setting to begin with..... ITS TIME!! LETS MAKE A MAC ABSOLUTELY RIP! MAYBE - YouTube

 

[Gordon Gould]

45 degrees today and a ton of rain tonight and tomorrow on frozen ground in the 50's. It will be messy. Sure glad we didn't get 2 or 3 feet of snow like some of you did and have to deal with flooding.

Trying to do some Timber Stand Improvement along the upper side of this trail. You can see looking down the line that there is not a lot of good stuff in there so just I make the best of what I have and hope better stuff comes along behind with the increased light.



I get some firewood out of it though.



Merry Christmas
gg

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
It's pretty hard to make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Still, while they may not be veneer in your lifetime what you are leaving has potential. At the end of the day the work you do in a forest, whether good or bad, will outlast one person's lifetime. Cutting the poplar will make it sprout, and I don't know what you have for markets but right now it's one of the easiest to get rid of up here. I've been cutting it in patches on my land because in about 5-10 years it will be great grouse habitat. I plan to cut trails through it, and my next dog hopefully will learn to hunt with me. :thumbsup:

Merry Christmas. :xmastree:

 

[heavy hammer]

Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I have been burning plenty of firewood, working the dogs in the woods, and shoveling/moving snow. We has 20's and close to 2 feet of snow for Christmas the 40's and sunny yesterday.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Took some pics this afternoon taking out a dying beech for firewood. It was up on the hill above my tractor trail about 150' or more. I wanted to fell it down hill so it would be closer. Even though it had a fairly compact round top there was only one place to put it where I was pretty sure it wouldn't get hung up. It took me 3 wedges and a good hinge. One starter wedge followed by two stacked up. I broke one of them. Here it is laying where it fell with the top removed and out of the way.



I was lucky to find this straight shot down to the trail which is on a narrow shelf.



And I had no trouble winching it down through there - top first.



Then I moved the tractor and set up a snatch block to pull the tree across the trail into the open.



I took down the snatch block, cut the tree in half and winched both butt ends to the tractor.



For the skid home



Here is the bottom log (21 footer) going on the wood pile.



Happy New Years everyone. Work safe.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
Your beech is much nicer than what we have here. Ours is generally short, stubby, and covered with cankers from beech nectria fungus disease, which is spread by beech scale. Beech Diseases

 

[Gordon Gould]

^^^^ That was way better than most beech here. I have been watching it. In June of 2016 it got attacked by the drilling insect (beech scale). The white waxy deposits are a give-away.



Then in Oct that same year I could see that the fungus got into it and started to flower.



Then the next summer, 2017, and since it has been clean - no cankers. I thought it was immune to BBD and it was one of my keep trees.



But this spring I noticed the top dying. Dead branches and yellow leaves which fell off by July. The bark also started to have fine 6 or 8 inch vertical splits in it every where. I have no idea if BBD killed it or something else ????

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Everyone just calm down, just because theres a chainsaw next to the tractor tire doesn't mean it's always placed next to a tractor tire, besides, this is a professional logger with a photo-graphic memory..............