Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Ridgeline Farmer]

Here is my contribution. A picture of my wood shed I made myself a few years ago and my tractor with a bucket load of firewood. Typically I use my Ranger for firewood duties unless I need to move the tree.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Here is my contribution. A picture of my wood shed I made myself a few years ago and my tractor with a bucket load of firewood. Typically I use my Ranger for firewood duties unless I need to move the tree.

Very nice job on that wood shed Looks straight, solid, a nice size, and airy.

gg

 

[Ridgeline Farmer]

Thanks! When I was building it, one of my coworkers who also burns wood, teased me about adding running water and electricity to it.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Yesterday I started cutting fir, my annual winter TSI project. We have an area with some bigger trees ( for my wood lot here in the east, anyway ). They are recently dead or dying. Since there is more light on the ground now I want to them cut before any new regen starts in fear that they will fall on new growth when they blow over later if not cut. I will consider any logs I get out of it a bonus. Since it was the first day I took the camera.

Before I got down there I came across a blow down laying across a fork in the trail.

I took care of it with the grapple. Then as I continued I saw a partridge giving me the evil as I drove past. The first tree was about 2' at the butt and dead. I thought I could put it through an opening that only had one small maple branch across it.

But of course it hung up on that little branch.

I had to work to get it down.

The butt was all rotten and there was a weevil crook 12' up.

Even with that I got a 40' log. I cut a cookie and cut that into a block just to insure my self that I had good wood from such a rotted tree.

Here is video of the above in case you enjoy watching an old guy having fun in the woods.

gg

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My nephew and me, put in another day splitting for my customer friend and moving firewood for him, just over 4 cords total. The guy even had some huge oak crotches he said I could have if I wanted them, so we put the Husky 562 to work cutting them down a bit,

After moving 13 heaped baskets of splits about a half mile to the "big house", we loaded my nephew's trailer with two oak logs, and then I loaded my tractor on my trailer,

I put the final log in front of my tractor, to haul it home too,

Overall, it was a pretty nice day, and I ended up with three nice oak logs to cut/split for my own use.

SR

 

[kozal01]

My wood splitting station this week. Im about two cord in so far.

 

[Gordon Gould]

^^^^ Looks like a nice bucket of oak. Those versatile 22 ton splitters have worked up an awful lot of firewood over the years.

gg

 

[heavy hammer]

I ended up with about 10 truck loads of wood from storms this summer from a neighbor right down the road. Alot of damage from this past summer is yet to be cleaned up wood still all over.

 

[WinterDeere]

Had a kickback event with my top handle saw, yesterday. Ate my Deere ball cap, and just scratched my scalp. I was relatively lucky.

You always hear folks say they can’t imagine how this happens, until it happens to them, and I guess I’m in that boat now. I put more hours on chainsaws every year, than most non-pros will in a lifetime, so this didn’t come from lack of experience. More likely a “familiarity breeds complacency” issue, in this case.



For anyone curious, “Little’s” is our local chain of JD dealerships.

Here’s where all the keyboard Dudly Do-Rights get on their soap box, about using a top-handle saw on the ground.

 

[Runner]

Had a kickback event with my top handle saw, yesterday. Ate my Deere ball cap, and just scratched my scalp. I was relatively lucky.

You always hear folks say they can’t imagine how this happens, until it happens to them, and I guess I’m in that boat now. I put more hours on chainsaws every year, than most non-pros will in a lifetime, so this didn’t come from lack of experience. More likely a “familiarity breeds complacency” issue, in this case.

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For anyone curious, “Little’s” is our local chain of JD dealerships.

Here’s where all the keyboard Dudly Do-Rights get on their soap box, about using a top-handle saw on the ground.

The very first time I used my top handle saw it kicked back right at my face. Didn't hit me but got my attention for sure. What makes it worse is that they are light enough to one-hand so easily...