Molalla1
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I know right . . . .
.Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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.bcjmmac
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Not in same league as many posters. Next year’s wood cut & stacked. Year after piled. Approx 5 cord ready for next year. Mainly maple, birch & poplar.
Gordon Gould
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Wow - That is what I call excellent wood utilization. I like your pics. They say a lot. One thing about the Firewood League - there are no rules. Burn what you have and work it up in any old way you please.
gg
Plus the last time I knew they had a 44 month backlog!
That's a nice looking fir. I'm having some cut which is less than half that size and most of it is junk, going to biomass for electricity.I really enjoyed the good weather and perfect conditions while cutting some fir this week. We didn't get any sun and it spat snow all the time but it was in the 20's with no wind. Your probably sick of my fir pictures but this one is the second biggest, board foot wise, that I have ever cut here. So I needed a pic. It was 23" at the butt and 260 BF. I can hear the laughter
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While I had the camera out I mounted it on the ROPS and made a video of making up a hitch, this tree and another smaller one (70 BF), and skidding them out to the landing. I'm cutting off of a new trail that I scuffed out last fall. On the skid out there are 3 sharp turns so I am keeping my wood lengths short. These are 26' to make a couple 12' saw logs. I had a bit of bad luck. When the cable releases from a snatch block the cable goes slack as it falls. This momentarily removes the locking pressure on the chokers. That little tree got caught in the cable at just the right instant to rake the loose chokers free. I saw the tree and knew it was a goner. I thought about cutting it but I didn't..... Took me 4 extra minutes to patch up the problem it caused.
The video is about 20 minutes long. Not fast paced and exciting but slow like woods work and me. You'll be able to tell from the way I walk one way vs the other that the tractor is parked on a hill with the camera facing down.
gg
hunt4570
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- Grand L3540 ,724 loader, bucket, grapple and now forks also! And just for OP.. a pool!
Its a little over ten times what I paid for my little mill...
Ditto here, and I bought 5 extra blades.
hunt4570
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I did the same.. and probably 30-35 more after that! I have a garage full of dull blades but a sharpener and setter will cost $1500-$2500 and I just cant justify the expense. No sharpening service that I can find close by, and to ship them out to a sharpener and back isn't much if any cheaper than buying new ones.
Williy
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Hay for $900 you can have a saw setter and
blade sharpener blade setter $85
Has anyone seen this site?
willy
blade sharpener blade setter $85
Has anyone seen this site?
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Yes, they have some good information there from time to time. I tried to join several years ago but had to write an essay about why I wanted to join, then never heard from them again. I haven't returned since.
