Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[walhondingMF]

What if I add a couple Black Walnut logs?

Oh I'm sure I could find something to do with it lol

It's actually my favorite wood to burn just because of the smell.

 

[K5lwq]

What if I add a couple Black Walnut logs?

This made me laugh a little. When I was a kid on the farm we took in a 200 acre woodland area to row crop. In the middle of those woods were some beautiful Black Walnut trees. I told dad it was shame just to waist them and I wanted to keep a few. He told me I could do whatever I wanted with them. So I chained up three huge trees to the IH 5488 with duals and it was all that tractor wanted skidding them 5 miles to a small pond below the house.

I pushed them in the pond with the thought of retrieving them to be sold over winter. As far as I know they are still in that pond. Never got a chance to do anything with them nor did I know how. Just knew they would keep submerged in that pond. I spent half the day messing with those trees.

Dad would ask me almost every year over the next 40+ years until he passed when I was going to get my Walnut trees?

 

[WinterDeere]

Oh I'm sure I could find something to do with it lol

It's actually my favorite wood to burn just because of the smell.

It splits easy, and smells nice while you're stacking it. But it has very low BTU value, and leaves about twice as much ash in the stove per BTU, as most of the other woods I burn.

My yard is mostly black walnut trees, I harvest a pickup truck load or two per week of those damn nuts, every September and October. Each time a tropical storm or hurricane blows thru, I end up with another walnut tree or two on the ground, which I need to cut up and burn. Pin-straight, it'd make great furniture wood, but local mills won't touch "yard trees".

 

[walhondingMF]

It splits easy, and smells nice while you're stacking it. But it has very low BTU value, and leaves about twice as much ash in the stove per BTU, as most of the other woods I burn.

My yard is mostly black walnut trees, I harvest a pickup truck load or two per week of those damn nuts, every September and October. Each time a tropical storm or hurricane blows thru, I end up with another walnut tree or two on the ground, which I need to cut up and burn. Pin-straight, it'd make great furniture wood, but local mills won't touch "yard trees".

Just curious... why not "yard trees?"

 

[WinterDeere]

Just curious... why not "yard trees?"

Too likely to contain metal or ceramic hardware, is what I've been told.

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

Just curious... why not "yard trees?"

Metal. Some portable bandsaw owners will cut yard trees with the stipulation that you pay for the blade if they hit something.

The previous owner of my property was a diesel tech and he had chains hanging from several trees. The trees have grown to encapsulate the chains so when I eventually take them down I'll need to be very careful. I've also got several spots where trees have engulfed metal fencing. Nails from tree houses, bird feeders, etc, are also common in yard trees.

 

[Loaderman22]

My neighbor gets logs from a tree service, whenever they are in the area and its a hardwood, they come drop it off with the log loader truck. He's not picky, so he gets all sorts of wires, support cables, turnbuckles, bolts, concrete, rocks, etc. Sharpens a lot of chains, but he doesn't buy fuel oil, ever! So I can understand why mills don't want yard trees. I'm sure we've even gotten bullets & slugs to go with the barbed wire & fence staples.

 

[EscapedSuburbia]

So I can understand why mills don't want yard trees. I'm sure we've even gotten bullets & slugs to go with the barbed wire & fence staples.

Bullets aren't a problem as long as they're lead. I've sawn through them quite a few times and it doesn't hurt a blade at all.

 

[spruce Deere]

Yep, I have sawed couple of bullets in cutting firewood, Jacketed rifle bullets with no chain damage.

Cannot say the same about the nails and rocks I have found sawing....

 

[WinterDeere]

The thing that I've hit more than any other when sawing yard trees is ceramic overhead wiring insulators. And they're worse than hitting metal, as I can always feel metal the second I hit it and stop before there's much chain damage. But the chain can ride smoothly enough over those ceramic insulators that it's hard to know you've even hit something before the chain is toast.

I've also hit nails and spikes, but always associated with... you got it, overhead wiring insulators!