Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

I've heard of the staining which iron causes but this is the first time I've seen what it looked like.
Too bad that you can't see it until you get the log apart.

Thing is, I was halfway through the log before I hit it, so it earned its "medal" early in life. lol

SR

 

[WinterDeere]

Too bad that you can't see it until you get the log apart.

I always wondered about this, just assuming mills would have metal detectors that could locate this stuff. After Hurricane Sandy, I had a crap-ton of huge pin-straight black walnut trees down in my yard. I called a few mills, and all of them said they would not take any yard trees, due to high probability of metal fasteners. Really surprised me.

I ended up splitting it all and using it as firewood. Beautiful straight-grained stuff, miles of it, but it's really crappy wood for heating.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I always wondered about this, just assuming mills would have metal detectors that could locate this stuff. After Hurricane Sandy, I had a crap-ton of huge pin-straight black walnut trees down in my yard. I called a few mills, and all of them said they would not take any yard trees, due to high probability of metal fasteners. Really surprised me.

I ended up splitting it all and using it as firewood. Beautiful straight-grained stuff, miles of it, but it's really crappy wood for heating.

Most if not all the modern mills do have metal detectors that each logs passes thru. Even so they will not take yard trees. The risk is not worth it.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

I always wondered about this, just assuming mills would have metal detectors that could locate this stuff. After Hurricane Sandy, I had a crap-ton of huge pin-straight black walnut trees down in my yard. I called a few mills, and all of them said they would not take any yard trees, due to high probability of metal fasteners. Really surprised me.

I ended up splitting it all and using it as firewood. Beautiful straight-grained stuff, miles of it, but it's really crappy wood for heating.

Even with metal detectors some iron gets missed. There also might be other undesirables in the log. On a mill tour years ago, the sawyer told of hitting a telephone insulator. I guess that it made quite a racket, he said that he was a Vietnam Vet and instinctively dove for cover.

 

[WinterDeere]

I’ve hit a lot of electrical insulators, but ceramic donuts, but they always have a steel bolt running thru them, and a steel bracket attached to them, so still likely caught by a metal detector.

 

[Runner]

I hate to say this too loud, but yesterday was the last of my tree removal for a while. This was miscellaneous dead stuff from various locations in the pasture. Dead enough that I have no idea even what species I was dealing with, except for one very small walnut.

Trees outlined in red were the first victims.

Was too lazy to get out the forks, so piled everything on the carryall.

Two more big, nasty dead snags in my nature trail that I can see from the house have been bugging me for years, so the old Sabre had to be called to duty and overloaded once again.

This stuff was so old it was part punky and part petrified, but got to do a little more hand-splitting and stacking.

Ready to take it easy and do something besides tree work for a while.

NOTE: The author in NO WAY endorses operating tractors with ROPS in lowered position, especially with a load of saws and dead, punky and petrified wood. Don't even THINK about doing it.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I'm still on my firewood cutting/splitting job, I hired my nephew to help me as he's short on cash right now. Anyway, there were two oak logs in this spot, and we filled a couple boxes with those,

The 4-way wedge sure speeds up the splitting!

Then we moved to a BIG pile of logs out in the woods to cut/split there, and we quickly got to work filling more boxes,

It's really nice to have a "self-propelled" splitter that you can drive out in the woods, and it really kicks-azz when it gets there,

There's plenty more logs out there to work on, so like Arnie, we'll be back!!

SR

 

[Tpondel]

Clearing a path thru the woods.

 

[mike0000]

Nice setup Rob, similar to how I split/store. I’m envious of the 4 way splitter!

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm still on my firewood cutting/splitting job, I hired my nephew to help me as he's short on cash right now. Anyway, there were two oak logs in this spot, and we filled a couple boxes with those,

The 4-way wedge sure speeds up the splitting!

Then we moved to a BIG pile of logs out in the woods to cut/split there, and we quickly got to work filling more boxes,

It's really nice to have a "self-propelled" splitter that you can drive out in the woods, and it really kicks-azz when it gets there,

There's plenty more logs out there to work on, so like Arnie, we'll be back!!

SR

Who is Arnie?