Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[John_Mc]

John, I totally agree. I have many oaks that have succumb to the Oak Wilt and why I tackled this big guy, I don’t know. I think the reason is, is because the large rounds just looks so impressive on the rack. Big sense of accomplishment.

It does give you a nice feeling of accomplishment

 

[arrow]

20” x 20” wet Red Oak rounds are all I can handle. What a workout. Tomorrow, the rest of the tree.
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I prefer to stack mine thusly:

 

[arrow]

I do a lot of small patch cuts and single tree or small group cuts. This small patch I laid every thing up hill perpendicular to the trail.

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Then for single trees and small groups it's like you said - put them in a spot where they will hit the ground and be easy to pull out.

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Here is a leaner right over an oak I want to promote

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gg

Your pics reminded me a bit of what I just got involved with.
This oak was 75' tall and 22" dbh. It took out four trees with it and of course they were all tangled with each other.
The pics don't give the initial mess justice but I had to cut the stem into 3 pieces to be able to skid them up the 15% incline w my 3016.
Jan 13th and WHERE'S THE SNOW!
Next to last photo gives some idea to the distance of the trees this big one knocked down. You can make out the uprooted trees it created toward the center of the pic. One of the trees you can't see was simply knocked flat and it was a 12"er oak. The last pic was of the stem. The first 5 pieces counting from the top are from this one tree and the foreground tree, waiting to be sectioned is of one of the maples it killed.
It was the old "how do you eat an elephant" kind of thing.

Could have used your Dresser for this mess Gordon.
I wished for it real hard but when I opened my eyes, it still wasn't here.
Must of been the "distance" thing. Go look if its still where you left it...maybe I got it to move a couple feet?

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
That looks like a lot of work but I"m sure that the results are worthwhile. Firewood, or were you able to get some logs out of any of the trees?
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Did it make a sound when it fell?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Your pics reminded me a bit of what I just got involved with.
This oak was 75' tall and 22" dbh. It took out four trees with it and of course they were all tangled with each other.
The pics don't give the initial mess justice but I had to cut the stem into 3 pieces to be able to skid them up the 15% incline w my 3016.
Jan 13th and WHERE'S THE SNOW!
Next to last photo gives some idea to the distance of the trees this big one knocked down. You can make out the uprooted trees it created toward the center of the pic. One of the trees you can't see was simply knocked flat and it was a 12"er oak. The last pic was of the stem. The first 5 pieces counting from the top are from this one tree and the foreground tree, waiting to be sectioned is of one of the maples it killed.
It was the old "how do you eat an elephant" kind of thing.

Could have used your Dresser for this mess Gordon.
I wished for it real hard but when I opened my eyes, it still wasn't here.
Must of been the "distance" thing. Go look if its still where you left it...maybe I got it to move a couple feet?

It just got light enough to see when I look out back. It's still there but it looks like it shifted a little south though.

You got some nice wood out of that mess, I agree with your idea of a good stack of wood. Anything beyond that is not as near enjoyable. 3016 does well pulling and piling that size stuff.

gg

 

[Smokeydog]

Have three, 20-24”x 9’ white oak logs from tornado damage over a year ago. No success trying to give away. If I move them by the road and say free they will just sit. If I say $50 someone would steal them probably. Read where there is getting an extreme shortage of white oak to make bourbon and whiskey barrels. One time charred. Booming spirit industry with no planting, poor forestry farming practices and disease pressure. Have several 30” forest oaks of both red and white oak dead or dying along the driveway.

They are clearing for five housing developments nearby. Log then chip and grind even huge stumps. Pile the latter for erosion control and landscaping. Huge Multistory storage facilities displacing homes along the highway. Record growth from folks fleeing from the blue states.

Use to tease my wife that someday folks will be driving by pointing at us living in old log cabins like they use to do at Cades Cove in the Smoky mountains NP. Damn, that might actually happen.

 

[arrow]

^^^^^
That looks like a lot of work but I"m sure that the results are worthwhile. Firewood, or were you able to get some logs out of any of the trees?
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Did it make a sound when it fell?

No Jst, everything I've processed has turned into firewood. I've probably given up a lot of money mill wise but the call for decorative oak beams and oak pallet wood is simply too slim in my neck of the wood.

it was dead silent when it fell. I know cause i snuck up and watched and hid myself and didn't hear a thing so that tree fall in the middle of the woods thing is true!
Now I'm wondering about Santa.

 

[arrow]

Have three, 20-24”x 9’ white oak logs from tornado damage over a year ago. No success trying to give away. If I move them by the road and say free they will just sit. If I say $50 someone would steal them probably. Read where there is getting an extreme shortage of white oak to make bourbon and whiskey barrels. One time charred. Booming spirit industry with no planting, poor forestry farming practices and disease pressure. Have several 30” forest oaks of both red and white oak dead or dying along the driveway.

They are clearing for five housing developments nearby. Log then chip and grind even huge stumps. Pile the latter for erosion control and landscaping. Huge Multistory storage facilities displacing homes along the highway. Record growth from folks fleeing from the blue states.

Use to tease my wife that someday folks will be driving by pointing at us living in old log cabins like they use to do at Cades Cove in the Smoky mountains NP. Damn, that might actually happen.
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Freakin time just keeps moving dun't it.
Doesn't even care what we're thinkin or how we feel.
It's so inconsiderate.
I asked not to get old upon the advice of so many before me.
You think he listened?
Nice and picturesque pic.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Use to tease my wife that someday folks will be driving by pointing at us living in old log cabins.
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If I drove by I would be pointing. Pointing and saying "Hey look, what a nice place that is"

gg

 

[Loaderman22]

Have three, 20-24”x 9’ white oak logs from tornado damage over a year ago. No success trying to give away.

I have a woodworker friend of mine, he is looking to expand his old barn to make a true assembly & finishing room. I have loads of red oak, but he was looking for white oak timbers for the 1st floor girders. Yes the red oak is strong enough, but the white oak is more rot resistant. There is a concrete slab in the basement, but its a tad damp because of the stone foundation walls, so the white oak would just be a little better fit. Maybe like @arrow , I can wish real hard to get them here!! I even have a Cat to move them!