Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Smokeydog]

Wife and I just cut, split and stacked about a cord of white oak. Split the bark off this time for a little cleaner, higher density fuel. Here oak wood takes a year to season. Be a couple years till we need this new batch. Like bone dry wood. More btus, burns cleaner and easy to start with a sheet of newspaper.

There is special feeling satisfaction and comfort knowing your heating fuel is prepared and ready for a few years to come. Special too spending time working your spouse together in beautiful fall weather. Dog thinks all firewood are toys needing to be thrown.

 

[4570Man]

So I'm thinking I will disagree with that article! I read that whole thing and it kind of scared me, I was hoping I hadn't just wasted my time cutting that tree down but come to find out that sweetgum is a pleasure to split!! Granted I do not yet know how it will dry and burn but splitting so far has been a breeze! If it dries and burns well I may have my new favorite firewood source, and I have plenty of it around here! Pic on the left is one medium large sweetgum ready to go.

It’s a light wood. Probably on par with soft maple or maybe 1 notch below. It also looks like that was a small tree. Try splitting a big one for the full effect.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm currently hauling firewood from completed harvest jobs, so am choosy about what I bring home. When I start cutting off my own lot it will be anything which needs to die. If the sweetgum is in your back yard and works up well I would burn it. Heck, I'm burning hemlock tops from the trees I had sawn to build a shed.

 

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So I'm thinking I will disagree with that article! I read that whole thing and it kind of scared me, I was hoping I hadn't just wasted my time cutting that tree down but come to find out that sweetgum is a pleasure to split!! Granted I do not yet know how it will dry and burn but splitting so far has been a breeze! If it dries and burns well I may have my new favorite firewood source, and I have plenty of it around here! Pic on the left is one medium large sweetgum ready to go.

Glad to see you're still using the dam things.

 

[Fabbed Fun]

You guys are going to have to check out my YouTube videos for cutting/skidding/bucking/hauling with my Massey 2607H. It's been a great tractor for my needs! Also, very cool pics on this thread!

 

[Fabbed Fun]

Homemade grapple with 7" googly eyes and teeth (for the kiddos) and a 5'x3.5' carry all full of maple while dragging the maple base log behind...

 

[goeduck]

Dog thinks all firewood are toys needing to be thrown.

Even if I could throw these rounds, I doubt my dog couldn't fetch them.

 

[Smokeydog]

Shelby dog would have to chew those down a bit!Our rounds were only 20-30” diameter by 22” long.

 

[John_Mc]

If the rounds are more than about 24 inches, I won't even mess with them for firewood. It's just more effort than it is worth. We have plenty of prime hardwood firewood species that really pack a lot of BTUs. They do get heavy: a 16" long x 24" diameter Red Oak or Hickory weighs 200# when green. Bumping up to 30" diameter would be over 300#. Several other widely available species are similarly dense. I figure why mess with them when I have so much easier wood to process?

 

[4570Man]

If the rounds are more than about 24 inches, I won't even mess with them for firewood. It's just more effort than it is worth. We have plenty of prime hardwood firewood species that really pack a lot of BTUs. They do get heavy: a 16" long x 24" diameter Red Oak or Hickory weighs 200# when green. Bumping up to 30" diameter would be over 300#. Several other widely available species are similarly dense. I figure why mess with them when I have so much easier wood to process?

I can put a 24” round across my splitter with minimum back effort but taking the hydraulics out of the picture it doesn’t take very long to split one with a chainsaw into manageable pieces. A 24 inch round has the same amount of wood nine 8 inch rounds. A 30” piece has the same amount as fourteen 8” pieces.