Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[fruitcakesa]

If you can get rid of that stuff and come close to breaking even it is well worth it in my book. My fir is a little different - on the outside they are pretty straight and a picture of health with good tops but they sure are ugly on the inside Sort of like trying to make a silk purse from a sows ear. What's left in the woods rots quick because it has a good head start.


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We are starting to get a little fall color now.

gg

That's too bad about the rotting fir, I do consider myself lucky to have an outlet for all the junk pine and I have a lot of it.
Will likely take a few years to cut it all. Keep me out of trouble.
We are also getting the first tinges of color here.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I can see you are indeed ready Hunt !!!

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

If you can get rid of that stuff and come close to breaking even it is well worth it in my book. My fir is a little different - on the outside they are pretty straight and a picture of health with good tops but they sure are ugly on the inside Sort of like trying to make a silk purse from a sows ear. What's left in the woods rots quick because it has a good head start.


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We are starting to get a little fall color now.

gg

Your trees clean up nicely though. Mine die long before reaching that size. I tried to cut a load of studwood earlier this summer and gave up after the first 6 trees. When you cut 12 feet off the butt of a 30 foot tall tree, and need 5 inches top diameter to meet specs it doesn't add up. Now that it's cooler and the sap has run back into the boles, I will start cutting a load of pulp instead. Just like FruitCake's pine, I won't make much money; yet it will get the trees off the landscape and I won't have to look at the piles of blowdowns as I'm driving up the road.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Your trees clean up nicely though. Mine die long before reaching that size.

They do. On average I get 3 logs per tree. This particular spot I'm cutting now is not as good as most. But it is dry after last weeks 5" of rain.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

They do. On average I get 3 logs per tree. This particular spot I'm cutting now is not as good as most. But it is dry after last weeks 5" of rain.

gg

I don't even have spruce that tall. The last time I cut a load it averaged 14 inches on the butt, yet still fit on a wheeler after butting off the old skidder damage. Thank God for weight scale!

 

[Molalla1]

If you can get rid of that stuff and come close to breaking even it is well worth it in my book. My fir is a little different - on the outside they are pretty straight and a picture of health with good tops but they sure are ugly on the inside Sort of like trying to make a silk purse from a sows ear. What's left in the woods rots quick because it has a good head start.


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We are starting to get a little fall color now.

gg

What species of fir Gordon?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Balsam fir - like the Christmas tree. Eastern Red and White Spruce and Balsam Fir are mixed and used for stud wood and light framing here.

My wife says she likes riding in my truck because it smells so good - like balsam.

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[Molalla1]

Thanks Gordon, we as a nation have so many great species of trees, it is nice to know.

 

[hunt4570]

Balsam fir - like the Christmas tree. Eastern Red and White Spruce and Balsam Fir are mixed and used for stud wood and light framing here.

My wife says she likes riding in my truck because it smells so good - like balsam.

gg

As they are or at least used to be, marked SPF at the lumber yard, Spruce , Pine, and Fir. I think now its referred to as "white wood" .

 

[Gordon Gould]

As they are or at least used to be, marked SPF at the lumber yard, Spruce , Pine, and Fir. I think now its referred to as "white wood" .

I found this definition.


SPF dimensional lumber:

"In Eastern SPF wood species, there are the White Spruce, Black Spruce, Red Spruce, Jack Pine, and Balsam Fir. Eastern Species of SPF lumber tend to grow slower, increasing the strength of the lumber. In Western SPF wood species, there are the Engelmann Spruce, White Spruce, Lodgepole Pine, and Alpine"

I have heard Tulip wood called white wood ?????? Maybe a local name.

gg