Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[deezler]

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Nice old tree! Did you count the rings? I'm too lazy.

Hope you guys in Latvia aren't too worried about the current aggressions of your eastern neighbor.

 

[Helogabals]

Nice old tree! Did you count the rings? I'm too lazy.

Hope you guys in Latvia aren't too worried about the current aggressions of your eastern neighbor.

Kids have counted rings. But I already forgot

With neighborhood tension is just rising. Your Secretary of State - Bliken was here day before, yesterday secretary of NATO was in Riga. They are plotting something ...

But there are good news, that help to calm down our minds. Now here already are more than 1000 US troops. Patriot rocket sys is about to be installed in Eastern Poland. Really appreciate your commitment


Anyway for us most important is to handle refugees. We here have got like 5k officially already. Obviously, that's nothing if compared with 1m at Poland, but for so small country like ours it is something. And I suppose +/- the same nr is here not registered, living directly with relatives, friends
Good thing, actually great moment is, that there are no such thing as refugee camps. Almost all 2m Ukrainian refugees are living in decent homes, hotels etc. Maybe they have spent in a tent a night on border, that's max
I have one airbnb apartment, and I have told to refugees management center, that I keep it free for them, if they need for 2+2 people family - just call me. They were like - thanks, but we already have like 10.000 open doors already
Families are here for less than week, and government already is organizing daycare for kids, all refugees are protected by medicare etc. It's complicated, as they speak different language, but everybody is willing to help
Actually one of refugees registration centers is in front of russian embassy, so russians can see how we are welcoming Ukrainian people

 

[deezler]

Thank you for this comment, Helo. Gives me some bit of hope. Of course, if 2 million Unkrainians have fled, that still leaves 40 million of them at home under duress. The madness has to end ASAP.

To not derail this thread, I am excited to get back to some firewood production with spring's arrival. Unlike the diehards in here, I am a fair weather firewood producer. Not interested in frozen fingers, shoveling snow to clear my log piles, or dealing with logs frozen into the ground.

So I got all 6 of my blades sharpened up. Finally realized that I need to take the rakers down a bit also, they were just as tall as my teeth.

And I finally broke down and bought an affordable peavey (timberjack). Hope this thing holds up ok. Anyone like to use these things? I figure I will remove the leg after I clear my current log piles down to the ground, and just use it for rolling logs after that.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

What pressure do you run in them?

In the front, when doing heavy loader work, 30 pounds...

SR

 

[Helogabals]

Thank you for this comment, Helo. Gives me some bit of hope. Of course, if 2 million Unkrainians have fled, that still leaves 40 million of them at home under duress. The madness has to end ASAP.

To not derail this thread, I am excited to get back to some firewood production with spring's arrival. Unlike the diehards in here, I am a fair weather firewood producer. Not interested in frozen fingers, shoveling snow to clear my log piles, or dealing with logs frozen into the ground.

So I got all 6 of my blades sharpened up. Finally realized that I need to take the rakers down a bit also, they were just as tall as my teeth.



And I finally broke down and bought an affordable peavey (timberjack). Hope this thing holds up ok. Anyone like to use these things? I figure I will remove the leg after I clear my current log piles down to the ground, and just use it for rolling logs after that.

Thanks !


Back to topic

I like it in winter. You don't have bad weather, you only have not good enough clothes

You know that already, but I will reapeat
1. I have quite warm protecting equipment. In those trousers & boots for me it is way too hot as temperatures are positive (C). I don't have anything lighter and I am not working without PPE
2. My forest is a bit wet, if its not frozen, tractor destroys everything
3. because of turf protection I am winching as less as possible, more try to load in trailer, but still sometimes winching or pulling is only option. And it's better in snow

And actually most important - I have more spare time in winter

P.S.
That style of timberjack I have only seen in museums

 

[hunt4570]

In the front, when doing heavy loader work, 30 pounds...

SR

Seems low, I think my tractor manual recommends 26 pounds in the front and mine always looked like that with a load. Tire manufacturer recommends 50 I think and my tires do much better with the higher pressure

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Seems low, I think my tractor manual recommends 26 pounds in the front and mine always looked like that with a load. Tire manufacturer recommends 50 I think and my tires do much better with the higher pressure

It may be low for your brand/style tire, but it isn't for mine.

SR

 

[hunt4570]

Thank you for this comment, Helo. Gives me some bit of hope. Of course, if 2 million Unkrainians have fled, that still leaves 40 million of them at home under duress. The madness has to end ASAP.

To not derail this thread, I am excited to get back to some firewood production with spring's arrival. Unlike the diehards in here, I am a fair weather firewood producer. Not interested in frozen fingers, shoveling snow to clear my log piles, or dealing with logs frozen into the ground.

So I got all 6 of my blades sharpened up. Finally realized that I need to take the rakers down a bit also, they were just as tall as my teeth.

And I finally broke down and bought an affordable peavey (timberjack). Hope this thing holds up ok. Anyone like to use these things? I figure I will remove the leg after I clear my current log piles down to the ground, and just use it for rolling logs after that.

Peavy and timberjack are two different things, I have a canthook which is like your timberjack without the stand. I've thought many times about getting a timberjack just never pulled the trigger yet.

 

[Jstpssng]

In those trousers & boots for me it is way too hot as temperatures are positive (C). I don't have anything lighter and I am not working without PPE

That's one reason that I prefer cutting in winter... although it didn't happen this year. Also, about 1/6th of my property is best accessed across a wet area which I can freeze down in winter, about 500 feet to the road; otherwise it's about 1/2 mile (.8 Kilometers) out around and back again.

Wood also doesn't spoil in winter. I'm just a weekend warrior, and working more than 6 hours/day leads to stupid moves. The last time, I rolled a log onto my Husky 545, destroying it. It takes me 3-4 weekends to put up an 8 cord load of wood, in summer that leads to drying, checking, and general degradation of the logs.

 

[hunt4570]

It may be low for your brand/style tire, but it isn't for mine.

SR

I just do not like the way the tires are squished down, I used to run mine like that but no more.