Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[goeduck]

Here: Forum Rules

I say hooey.

Oldpath was not discussing religion (as the rules list) by simply including scripture in his signature line. There is no DISCUSSION going on.

If a person put BLM in their signature line, would the moderators send that person a similar cease and dismiss email? I BET NOT, yet it can be considered a political statement/discussion (as the rules list). Nor should they shut it down, BLM and its supporters are a legitimate voice in our society so that all people are eventually treated equally. If someone put BLM in their signature line, it is NOT DISCUSSING POLITICS.

God is a legitimate need in our society to keep us on track and a simple scripture in someones post should not be considered DISCUSSING.

Again, I call hooey on the moderators.

 

[goeduck]

A signature line is an extension of who you are in my book. All innocent as far as scripture is concerned. If I put BLM in my signature line it is an extension of who I am and what I believe. If I put scripture in my signature line it is an extension of who I am and what I believe. Neither is discussing the subject and neither should offend anyone.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Take out for woodpeckers?

I like that - easiest lunch she has had in a while I bet

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

Lifting your rounds with the loader reminder me of splitting 30" maple rounds last summer. The tractor was running the splitter so I had to do it by hand. Of course I lowered the splitter first and built a ramp of split wood. I am not a strong person so it was my limit.

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Look pretty strong to me and If you do much more of that you will become even stronger.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

Look pretty strong to me and If you do much more of that you will become even stronger.

gg

I was going to post the same, but you beat me to it. He works smarter, not harder, as the saying goes.

My back hurts just looking at the picture.

 

[Jstpssng]

Digging it would be my first guess for the complainer. He’s done nothing but complain and be the self appointed Mayer of TBN since he joined. He must have a pretty sad life to be offended much less take the time to complain about someone’s signature line.

Before we crucify somebody, it would be good to know just what prompted OldPath's letter.. My comment was merely speculation, yet it seems to be what got people started down that goat path. Muhammed seems to have a more active presence here lately; perhaps it's just something that he took heed of. At any rate, continuing this conversation should be in a new thread... perhaps in the "feedback" forums.

 

[Jstpssng]

Inspecting some bushes witch I have to clean up a bit, and the road to it, pics not in any form of sequence.

But how exiting will a drive with a MF 135 bee on these roads, hmm

May I ask how you "Clean those up a bit?" Are you talking about trimming the trees back, or just mowing? That looks to be a pretty rigorous undertaking.

 

[two_bit_score]

Who is it, I'll never follow up with his posts.
I have no problems with the rules, just the whiners need to be canceled.

my guess is he pretty much id’s himself in that link to “forum rules”. And the location of Lower Uncton rings a bell with me.

 

[two_bit_score]

Who is it, I'll never follow up with his posts.
I have no problems with the rules, just the whiners need to be canceled.

 

[two_bit_score]

That does not change the fact that it is a privately owned web site. The public or the users don't set the rules. The owner does.


I have no idea. I never saw the argument, just Oldpath's response to the message he received.

I really don't care if someone wants to put a Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic or Atheist tag line on their posts. It's no skin off my back. I come here to hear what they have to say about tractors (or in the case of this topic, "Tractors and wood"). If they have something interesting to say on the subject, I'll read it. I ignore the signature lines most of the time anyway. Other than that, I try to follow the rules set by our host (though I may not succeed 100% of the time).

With that, I'm done with the topic drift

A better term for the status of forum members is probably ‘customers’. Customers who enhance the value of the site for the owner. Yes, the owner sets the rules. However, when those rules become onerous or unfairly administered the customers may leave. As OldPath05 justifiably did, IMHO.

The owner of TBN does a pretty good job of walking the fine line of retaining valuable customers while having mostly reasonable rules to maintain decorum which enhances the customer experience.

However, he sometimes drops the ball, he’s not perfect. And when he drops the ball customers can complain, or leave, or both.

And, the owner can listen to his customers or he can throw them out or run them off.

 

[arrow]

Lifting your rounds with the loader reminder me of splitting 30" maple rounds last summer. The tractor was running the splitter so I had to do it by hand. Of course I lowered the splitter first and built a ramp of split wood. I am not a strong person so it was my limit.

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I find that quartering stuff like this with wedges and maul first while these rounds are on the ground, much easier than what you're doing.

 

[Agvg]

May I ask how you "Clean those up a bit?" Are you talking about trimming the trees back, or just mowing? That looks to be a pretty rigorous undertaking.

Just take some by the road and below.

 

[Loaderman22]

Lifting your rounds with the loader reminder me of splitting 30" maple rounds last summer. The tractor was running the splitter so I had to do it by hand. Of course I lowered the splitter first and built a ramp of split wood. I am not a strong person so it was my limit.

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That is how I usually do it with most rounds, either build a ramp or use smaller lighter rounds as stairs to "walk" up the pieces, less strain on the back. These were a little too big for that, they were in the 36"-40" range, but not very thick so I could get the tongs to grip. I left the tongs attached and just lowered the bucket and moved the pieces around until quartered or smaller.

I have also tried a different method where I left the round on the forks standing upright, and brought it to the splitter from the end, not the side like usual, the lowered it in front of the wedge, forks straddling the wedge, then used the ram to split. The advantage was the ram pushed the splits back into the bucket, and the pieces still rested on the forks, so I could easily slide them back towards the ram for the next pass.

In the photo, the red forks are holding up the round, straddling the beam, this way I picked up less pieces again to resplit smaller, most went into the bucket.

 

[Jstpssng]

That is how I usually do it with most rounds, either build a ramp or use smaller lighter rounds as stairs to "walk" up the pieces, less strain on the back. These were a little too big for that, they were in the 36"-40" range, but not very thick so I could get the tongs to grip. I left the tongs attached and just lowered the bucket and moved the pieces around until quartered or smaller.

I have also tried a different method where I left the round on the forks standing upright, and brought it to the splitter from the end, not the side like usual, the lowered it in front of the wedge, forks straddling the wedge, then used the ram to split. The advantage was the ram pushed the splits back into the bucket, and the pieces still rested on the forks, so I could easily slide them back towards the ram for the next pass.

In the photo, the red forks are holding up the round, straddling the beam, this way I picked up less pieces again to resplit smaller, most went into the bucket.

That looks like a slick idea!

 

[Reb954]

I had hopes Muhammed would weigh in on the signature line controversy. Maybe he has, no response is a response.

While I am not a church going person, I do have deep convictions. In that respect I agree with Oldpath, if God/Jesus are not welcome here then neither am I.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Just stage your big blocks on a trailer or wagon with your loader, and then roll the blocks right on the splitter. I've been doing that for years, it works perfectly

Work smarter, not harder!

SR

 

[Rustyiron]

Call me lazy, but I'd just find smaller wood, wrestling with the big ones is just not worth the results. But I'm working alone and have learned to listen to my body, it's telling me that "we've done this chit before, that's why we sound like snap, crackle and pop in the morning".

 

[deezler]

Call me lazy, but I'd just find smaller wood, wrestling with the big ones is just not worth the results. But I'm working alone and have learned to listen to my body, it's telling me that "we've done this chit before, that's why we sound like snap, crackle and pop in the morning".

This! My personal preference is for 10-12" logs/rounds that I can quickly split into 4 pieces. Split once, rotate 90°, split both halves again at the same time. Easy to handle a 12" round. Sometimes you don't get to choose what size wood you have for firewood production, but if you're going into the woods looking for it....

 

[Rustyiron]

I have a ton of thinning to do on my land, it's amazing how many small 5-10" trees it takes to make a cord, but I estimate that seeing I don't split anything under about 7-8" and that's 1/3rd of the process so probably a fair trade off, at least that's what I tell myself
This property was cut pretty hard about 18 years ago and there simply is no big wood (hardwood) available anyway, 90% of my thinning is Beech, very respectable in the BTU department.

 

[mred2]

I had hopes Muhammed would weigh in on the signature line controversy. Maybe he has, no response is a response.

While I am not a church going person, I do have deep convictions. In that respect I agree with Oldpath, if God/Jesus are not welcome here then neither am I.

You may be right, I may just find other things to read. I may not want to be here. Speaking on the real news, politics, tax and things that affect our lives and farms.