Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

It was another very nice day here today, so I went to my back woods to skid some firewood logs out. Once out in the woods, I got set up,

The tree's have been cut down for a while, I just needed to get some of the smaller stuff skidded out of the way, to get to the big stuff,

This was the biggest pull for this load,

I skidded the logs out to a hay field where I loaded them on my log hauling running gear......I'm almost there,

Then I headed home, I have to pass through a couple narrow but long woods to get there,

and then it was clear sailing to where I cut/split and load into boxes, but that's a story for another time...

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

Have to say you are one hard working guy and have learned a lot from your posts...

 

[Gregster613]

I "second" what Ultrarunner said and thinks.....Rob, you are quite an active guy and I "always" enjoy and learn from your posts. Keep on keeping on my friend. Greg

 

[BackRoad]

This is a great thread!

Lots of contributors and no insecure arse trying to prove they're smarter than everybody else...

 

[John_Mc]

I leave them in the woods to rot down and feed the "other" tree's growing there...

That's how nature provides!

I do that on my own land as well. It's a great way to help promote forest health.

Also, in the conserved working forest for which I am part owner, one of the rules we have all agreed on is that we will not remove anything under 3" diameter. I don't remember the exact number, but a huge percentage of the nutrients in a tree are contained in these smaller limbs & leaves (the nutrients are more closely proportional to the surface area, not the volume of a piece of wood).

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thanks guys, it was such a nice day I just HAD to go to the woods! lol

Here's one of the streams that crosses my land, It starts from springs, that are about 100 yards off/above my property line.

When I was a kid, my dad always just drove right through it with the tractor. If we had a bigger load on our wagon, we would sometimes get stuck, have to unhook and then pull the wagon out with a chain.

When we picked rocks, that's where we would throw them, but after I bought this farm, I put a culvert in and made a decent road through the woods...

SR

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
The land I grew up on has been in the family since the late 1800s... my first few years we lived in the same house my grandfather was born in. They always kept the fields mowed to keep the weeds out and there were a couple of "underground streams" which poked up in places but never caused problems. In 1981 Father planted Christmas trees but they were never tended, so now we have a stand of mature balsam fir trees there... with a year round stream running in what was once hay field.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I leave all the slash in the woods too, for the reasons mentioned above. Many people think I am just a slob and don't care. But actually it is just the opposite. I understand why people would dislike the ugly look but it doesn't last for ever. Here is the way I left a small stand that I had cut the fir from.

But after four years it looks quite a bit different. Same shot 4 years later.

This is the way mother nature does it. Not pretty at all.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

Thanks guys, it was such a nice day I just HAD to go to the woods! lol

Here's one of the streams that crosses my land, It starts from springs, that are about 100 yards off/above my property line.

When I was a kid, my dad always just drove right through it with the tractor. If we had a bigger load on our wagon, we would sometimes get stuck, have to unhook and then pull the wagon out with a chain.

When we picked rocks, that's where we would throw them, but after I bought this farm, I put a culvert in and made a decent road through the woods...

SR

I have a stream like that on my place, but it starts and finishes completely on my property! Comes out of the ground as a spring, goes through the woods, travels through both my ponds back through the woods and empties into the river that borders one end of the property.

 

[arrow]

I like to take the entire tree out for a couple, three or 4 reasons:
1. Invariably the slash gets in the way of a logging trail.
2. The crown holds a lot of firewood. I don't mess with anything under 3"
3. I get to cut up the crown on the level, clear ground of the wood lot.
4. I can "pick" the firewood out of the slash with the fel forks more easily and bring them to the splitter.

So everybody's terrain, wood species and set up is different.
After about a hundred years, you find out what works best for you.
You then smack yourself in the head and say "why didn't I find this out 99 years ago?