Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Jstpssng]

Why didn't you just cut one foot off each log?

That's a lot of extra handling, and there wasn't enough money to do so.

 

[keony]

I fixed my steering and was able to do a little work today, good to have a working tractor this time of year!

 

[arrow]

We did use mini-split heat a lot in November/December whenever the ambient temps were up above 40f (quite a bit) which delayed our firewood consumption in the early season.

Normally, I have an electric bill between 70-80 bucks. For the first time since I got it, I used the mini split 24/7 to heat a room for 3 days and my bill was $128. It was set for 70* and temps were in the mid to high 30's
I thought these things were supposed to be efficient and save money?
It was cheaper to run the boiler for that length of time.
Was wondering if they're all like that.

 

[two_bit_score]

I thought these things were supposed to be efficient and save money?

How big was the room?

 

[4570Man]

Normally, I have an electric bill between 70-80 bucks. For the first time since I got it, I used the mini split 24/7 to heat a room for 3 days and my bill was $128. It was set for 70* and temps were in the mid to high 30's
I thought these things were supposed to be efficient and save money?
It was cheaper to run the boiler for that length of time.
Was wondering if they're all like that.

$130 to heat with a mini split for 3 days couldn’t be accurate. The circuit ran to the mini split couldn’t even supply enough current at 100 percent load for the entire 3 days to cost $130. The efficiency of a mini split or any heat pump reduces in cold weather since it has to use electric resistance heating but it’s still not that costly.

 

[goeduck]

Any heat pump (mini splits are heat pumps) falls off efficiency below outside air temps in the high 30s, depending on brand. I am in a marine climate, so we have a lot of days in the 40s and 50s outside. That is the sweet spot for a heat pump in my opinion. If you run them as a heat pump below the high 30s or even low to mid 40s (again depending on brand) they have to go through a defrost cycle for the outdoor unit at which time they are in air conditioning mode and have to reheat the air with resistance heat just to get back to not cooling the house. Some (mine does) have the ability to go to full re$i$tance heat. I shut mine off below 48 or so outside and burn firewood only.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Now that the firewood is done I started cutting fir stud-wood again.

gg

 

[goeduck]

That is a studly pile of wood.

 

[Jstpssng]

That is a studly pile of wood.

It takes 3 of my trees to make 1 of his.

 

[goeduck]

It takes 3 of my trees to make 1 of his.

It takes 3 of his to make 1 of mine.

 

[arrow]

$130 to heat with a mini split for 3 days couldn’t be accurate. The circuit ran to the mini split couldn’t even supply enough current at 100 percent load for the entire 3 days to cost $130. The efficiency of a mini split or any heat pump reduces in cold weather since it has to use electric resistance heating but it’s still not that costly.

No
That was my total bill.
The mini split added another 40 or 50 bucks.

 

[arrow]

How big was the room?

16x20.
Got to 70* in about 4 hrs from 58*.
Then I just let it run for 3 days.
So when nothing else changed as far as my electric usage, the mini was the only variable.

 

[Jstpssng]

It takes 3 of his to make 1 of mine.
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We have bigger trees, although nothing like what you have out there. However, balsam fir like what he is cutting is a short lived tree, only lasting about 70 years. When it stays in the understory like mine apparently did for the first half of it's life it doesn't get very big. What I'm cutting is 6-10 inches on the butt, and rarely longer than 30 feet to a 4 inch top. I also usually leave 2-16 feet in the woods because it's rotten.

What Gorson is cutting is nice as far as fir goes; it is of good size for the species, and sound.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

We have plenty of big tree's around here too,

That oak made a LOT of firewood,

SR

 

[Billy Bee]

We have plenty of big tree's around here too,

That oak made a LOT of firewood,

SR

That sure looks like poison ivy?

 

[Gordon Gould]

It takes 3 of his to make 1 of mine.
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More than 3 I would say. Our fir aren't big trees by any means. They average 12" to 16" at the butt. Then there is butt rot due to a fungus in our soil that I have to cut off. This one is typical in size and the amount of rot I have to cut. The saw has a 16" bar.

I do have the occasional bigger tree. The bigger ones, if they are older, have more rot usually. This one is 24" and there was 12' of rot before I found good wood.

gg

 

[dodge man]

Sawyer Rob, I also thought that looked like poison ivy growing up that big old oak. Luckily I won’t break out looking at pictures of it. Some people are immune.

 

[BackRoad]

Glanced at Mr. Sawyer Rob's first picture and my first thought was that big old Oak was tangled in a power line!

Hmmm... "That could be sketchy to take down..."

Then realized he was just tying off his tractor to keep it from wandering away!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That sure looks like poison ivy?

It is. lol

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Glanced at Mr. Sawyer Rob's first picture and my first thought was that big old Oak was tangled in a power line!

Hmmm... "That could be sketchy to take down..."

Then realized he was just tying off his tractor to keep it from wandering away!

I had my winch line hooked up high and winched it over.

I wanted to make sure it would fall toward me, into the opening, and plus, there's a fence on the back side that I didn't want to have to fix. lol

I've already cut two big loads off that tree,

And split it up, by rolling them onto the splitters beam,

and splitting them up,

They make a LOT of excellent firewood! I'll be back on that job when it warms back up, as there's still a decent log or two out there,

SR