Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Hay Dude]

Finally got rid of the pesky, view obstructing pine at the end of the shop driveway….

I let the Challenger finish it off rather than pinch the saw.

 

[goeduck]

Apparently they like it? They moved there when my SIL went back to school and have been there 18 years. She left here in '91 and went to Marblemount, WA. I have no idea how she ended up a city girl.

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Stock photo of the Marblemount area, population 203. Too bad she moved.

 

[groundcover]

Finally got rid of the pesky, view obstructing pine at the end of the shop driveway….

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I let the Challenger finish it off rather than pinch the saw.


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You just did that so it would qualify for the tractor portion of the thread !

 

[Whitbread]

Took advantage of another cool day to squeak another load in. This makes 8, should be done for winter now .

 

[goeduck]

^^ that is quite a trailer. Very nice. Do you burn this year's cut wood or is that downed or dead standing?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Took advantage of another cool day to squeak another load in. This makes 8, should be done for winter now . View attachment 815920

First class set-up with those log bunks and all Must be 30, 32 feet ???? What do you pull it with ?

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[Gordon Gould]

Spruce/fir stud wood.

Took a trip to the log yard today.

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[Loaderman22]

No tractor today, and no pictures, but I do have a story involving cutting wood. I was doing some volunteer work last night, clearing some walking trails in the woods with my small chainsaw. I took the 4 wheeler in as far as I could go, and when the trail got narrow I went on foot. I was just clearing the face slappers and any fallen stuff, not actually felling anything. I got to a fallen red oak tree, about 50% rotten, about 18" in diameter, and it was 12" off the ground. Since I am alone on this trail, I decided to cut it into short manageable lengths, and proceed to cut three logs about 36" each. I cut my pieces, shut off saw, set it down, then start rolling them off to the side. They are falling apart somewhat, and suddenly I get a giant flying something buzzing around my head, so I take off running. Well I call it running, a youngin' might call it something like scootin' along my chub! Usually you can go 20 or 30 yards and whatever that was buzzing your tower peels off to return back to homebase, but not this time, I hear buzzing around my head again, so I run further, and it happens again, & again. I hide behind a tree, and something buzzes past my ear, I run under low branches, it follows me. I'm swatting at whatever it was with my hat, hitting multiple times as I can feel it's got some size to it. Damn thing chased me 200 yards back to the 4-wheeler!! At this point I don't know if its one, or multiple, I just got out of there. I waited about 1/2 hour until dark, grabbed a good flashlight and went back to retrieve my trusty Stihl. I saw nothing buzzing around, picked up the saw and hiked back out.

Once I was away from it I tried to figure out what it was, hindsight is always 20/20. The clues tell me it was likely a giant female horsefly, as the buzz was not beelike, very resistant to swatting, and persistent enough to chase me a long way. I feel silly now about running from a horsefly, but I got the heart rate up and never got bit/stung, so I count it as a win overall.

 

[Gordon Gould]

No tractor today, and no pictures, but I do have a story involving cutting wood. I was doing some volunteer work last night, clearing some walking trails in the woods with my small chainsaw. I took the 4 wheeler in as far as I could go, and when the trail got narrow I went on foot. I was just clearing the face slappers and any fallen stuff, not actually felling anything. I got to a fallen red oak tree, about 50% rotten, about 18" in diameter, and it was 12" off the ground. Since I am alone on this trail, I decided to cut it into short manageable lengths, and proceed to cut three logs about 36" each. I cut my pieces, shut off saw, set it down, then start rolling them off to the side. They are falling apart somewhat, and suddenly I get a giant flying something buzzing around my head, so I take off running. Well I call it running, a youngin' might call it something like scootin' along my chub! Usually you can go 20 or 30 yards and whatever that was buzzing your tower peels off to return back to homebase, but not this time, I hear buzzing around my head again, so I run further, and it happens again, & again. I hide behind a tree, and something buzzes past my ear, I run under low branches, it follows me. I'm swatting at whatever it was with my hat, hitting multiple times as I can feel it's got some size to it. Damn thing chased me 200 yards back to the 4-wheeler!! At this point I don't know if its one, or multiple, I just got out of there. I waited about 1/2 hour until dark, grabbed a good flashlight and went back to retrieve my trusty Stihl. I saw nothing buzzing around, picked up the saw and hiked back out.

Once I was away from it I tried to figure out what it was, hindsight is always 20/20. The clues tell me it was likely a giant female horsefly, as the buzz was not beelike, very resistant to swatting, and persistent enough to chase me a long way. I feel silly now about running from a horsefly, but I got the heart rate up and never got bit/stung, so I count it as a win overall.

It's always good to run first and figure it out later. It becomes a reflex after a couple such incidents - good story, I was wondering how it would end

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[Jstpssng]

It's always good to run first and figure it out later. It becomes a reflex after a couple such incidents - good story, I was wondering how it would end

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I believe that I mentioned recently about a former coworker who was stung in the eye after spotting a hollow tree which had a hornet’s nest in it. It’s much better to err on the side of caution.