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never done it but have seen it along the road, basically cut the whole crown off the tree and just leave the trunk and a bunch of short stubs to grow back...

My soil is basically beach sand, I grow lots of tomatoes! I compost grass clippings, leaves, pine needles, table scraps etc and add it to my garden Where bouts in SC are you?

Interesting, my splitter is always full of fuel (and Stabil) and ready to go.

How do you pick your tomatoes then?

That guy looks like a project, why not just throw it back on the splitter?

Oh man, that would make for some nice lumber!!

I was talking about the deck on the house. The log deck looks fine.

Nice, I have a similar set up on mine, It looks uphill but its dead level, the ground slopes downhill.

Interesting deck construction.

Febreze!!! Its worse!

Yes, PVC is your friend. My carryall is almost always on my tractor and PVC helps me carry a lot of tools. I drill a larger hole on the outside to allow the screw head to go through and a smaller shaft size hole on the inside for the screw to go through and attach them where needed, no bottoms...

Your deer have the mange?? WOW.. :p

Indeed!! Me as well.

That's crazy, thanks for the pics

Well thank you very much! I had a sheet of plywood on a pair of custom height saw horses for 2 years checking the flow of the kitchen with the island!

Thanks... They WERE a project !

That is EXACTLY what I'm sayin!

Thanks Joe..

Its a water oak, and with my 3rd grade methodology looking at the leaves its a white oak. My tractor is a Kubota 3540 and has a lift capacity of 1792 pounds at the pin so it should do it.. on perfectly flat ground with enough ballast AND if my nads are big enough! 😬

That's nice, I'm not much of a furniture maker. I do a fair job on Cabinets though.. this kitchen I did not have the time so the cabinets I bought. I did install them all though.

That top looks very nice!

This was also my first countertop from real wood and I learned a lot as well! And thanks.

The right tools can and will make your job easier/better that's for sure!! I still yearn for a 36" drum sander, I could not afford one way back when, and now when I do have a little more money... the price still eludes me!

Thanks, and let me tell you I let out a huge WHOOP when I hit that slot! :p And I'm leaning to doing that.. slicing out a couple slabs, I'm just hoping my tractor can pick up a 10 foot section of that trunk! We'll see..

So here are my countertops and island on my kitchen I finished last year, all oak that I cut off my property and milled about 3-4 years ago for just that reason.

YUP, its a big one, hope I get lots of firewood out of it. Thanks

Thanks The thing is, oak boards are more furniture lumber than construction lumber. I cut mostly construction lumber on my sawmill and I have billions and billions of southern yellow pine for that but I do not have an abundance of hardwoods on my property and for firewood that is what I want, I...

Finally got out of the house doing remodeling and repairs and fired my chainsaws up again! Had an oak shading my garden and nursery I wanted to take down and besides I need some more firewood. Took a smallish cherry out first that was in the way, may split it separate for smoking wood. It was...

Kinda like me, old and funny (looking)

Nice pile of wood, and good job keeping it off the ground!

Nothing runs like a deere...or smells like a john..;)

Bigger Oh, you have to post pics of the buried Massey!

DANG thats a big log!

You never know😬😁

You got that right!! Heck she bought me a Harley for my 50th birthday!!

Thanks, the wife got that for me.

Any fruit or nut tree wood is good, even grapevines. I almost always do my poultry with cherry.

I too like burning cherry, but mostly in my smoker!

Thanks!

Yes, some sacrificial logs underneath works well. this is how I store mine.. just cut down a couple smaller straight pine trees for the job.

Yes, I agree with the consensus of something stuck in a passage somewhere, when I replace the carb I'll look into the old one more thoroughly when I get some time.

I think so, instead of fighting it... hopefully it'l fix it! I'll find out Monday or Tuesday,..

Yeah I actually just ordered a new carb for this thing a little bit ago instead of trying to dick with it

Question..Couldn't find a good place to put this but its my sawmill so it almost kinda fits here.. So I've not used my mill in maybe 2-3 months, worked just fine when last I used it... today I went to use it, started right up, but when I took the choke off it just dies! Choke slightly on, it...

Nice, I miss working with my dad...

Processor would not work for me really, I'm kind of a one man show and when splitting firewood I normally do one tree at a time. cut it down, buck it up, split and stack it, then I'm ready to get out of firewood mode, at least for a few days.

I agree, I do all my cutting by myself..

Pretty cold here yesterday as well, it even turned on the freeze protection on my pool so it was running when I got up, and that doesnt happen till it gets down to 35 degrees. Heck I had to wear a light jacket for a while in the morning! :D :D :D Nice pile of wood Gordon..

I tell you what, I'll cover the blades, refreshments, and ammo, AND gas isn't quite $4.00 a gallon here so that will save some. So just let me know when you think you will arrive...

Well throw it in the back of your truck and come on down.

When I first looked at that pic the ground looked like shingles, thought you were driving on a roof!:)

Now actually thinking back, when I first got this place and before I had explored all of it i was driving one of my fields and in an instant my front end was down in the ground to the axels! I had located one of my many springs, I got lucky and got it out with the loader but it was a little...

No snow here, no ice here, and pretty much no mud cause its all sand... Nope, just like beach sand..

No snow here, no ice here, and pretty much no mud cause its all sand...

Yeah, I've just always used my tractor or truck ...

I always thought if I really wanted a 4x4 or SxS for work only I would look at an old Toyota 4x4 pickup or something like that. Cheaper, better ground clearance, easy to get parts, and an enclosed cab with heat and air. Yeah its a little bigger but not that much really

YUCK!! Fun to keep your vehicles clean I bet. The driveway I had in colorado was like that except at a 30 degree angle up hill. NOT good for my motorcycle! So glad I'm on a paved road again!

So I went back and watched that video, Good video and for sure the one that "taught " me that bore cut. Also got that tip on the stick to the eye to determine where the top of the tree will land, works perfect. That tree he cut first is like 95% of the trees I cut here, thats a good size for my...

Not looking for all that work, just volunteering some property to hold a class is all.

If I could host a class I'd surely be interested in doing so.

Funny boy.. I wont even drive through that POS state!

Yeah, I am not looking to take a class, probably pretty stuck in my ways by now and if anything I am starting to taper off what cutting I do any more. I'm sure I'll still be cutting for some years to come, but a little less and smaller every year. I was just kind of wondering what was available...

Interesting..

And I have watched a lot of that series from Husqvarna and thought it pretty good and I have learned some stuff as well. I just watched the beginning of the video you posted and I have watched it before for sure, I dont have time right now but I saved that and will watch it again later. Thanks...

Dang, I may have to give that a try sometime. Whats the "GOL" method?

Nice, I dont have a winch but I've tied a rope or chain above the cut a few times to pull a (small ish) tree out of the pond after cutting. Same kind of thing.

Agreed, I was thinking the same thing!! he needs to be throwing chips and not dust!

So why not just do a plunge cut for the back cut leaving about 10% of the tree diameter intact, when you finish the plunged back cut, pull the saw, insert your wedges on both sides of that 10% left, then cut the little bit left and finish driving the wedges. Something like this...

And that is why now I run the tire manufacturers recommended psi and not the tractors manufacturer , they dont make the tires...

Do you do it on the saw? Thats how I do mine.

.They are Carlisle rubber R4 tractor tires, not radial..

My only ATV is my tractor!

I'm not deezler but I just use a small flat file. After every couple sharpenings I give the rakers a couple (yes two) strokes with it, takes less than a minute per chain. I do not use one of those little gages as to me they seem a waste of time. I can tell by the bite of the chain if I took...

Mine were run that way for many years also till the side walls gave out. It was explained to me running them "squishy" put too much stress on the sidewalls hence their early exit probably. But you run them how you like.

I just do not like the way the tires are squished down, I used to run mine like that but no more.

Peavy and timberjack are two different things, I have a canthook which is like your timberjack without the stand. I've thought many times about getting a timberjack just never pulled the trigger yet.

Seems low, I think my tractor manual recommends 26 pounds in the front and mine always looked like that with a load. Tire manufacturer recommends 50 I think and my tires do much better with the higher pressure

What pressure do you run in them?

I have what they call a tree farm here, they are field grown and most likely were at one point an off site species, Loblolly pine, but at 80 ish feet tall are not christmas trees! :D

Loaderman... you have 5 ATV's?? holy camoly you should give one to me!

Interesting read over the last half dozen pages or so, I dont get notifications anymore for some reason and kind of forgot about this place although I dont know how. Loaderman 22 shot me an email and reminded me, thanks LM. I do not envy the way some of you do things, just too much work for me...

Thank you for the explanation.

I have had mine a year, maybe a year and a half, have not had that problem.

Not sure I know what you mean.

Are those like chap "shorts"..

What did you get? I bought a Husqvarna ventilated one a couple years ago, love it! Older version of this one I believe https://www.husqvarna.com/us/helmets/technical-forest-helmet/

I bought heated gloves for my motorcycle once, ruined my dexterity so I put handle bar heaters in instead.. expensive experiment!

Yeah, and I dont do it full time like you do.

For anti fog safety glasses I got a couple of these with mesh screens instead of lenses, they work well.. and zero fog...

Do they make safety gloves, and do your hands still work while wearing them?

If I remember right I have the metal covers, but not positive, I'll have to look.

I do not know how old it was, it was about 25 years ago. Google it, seems like a bunch of stuff out there about it. https://sites.google.com/site/longwoodfurnace/

Back when I lived in Missouri I had what was called a Longwood stove, more of a furnace actually as it was hooked into my ductwork. It was dual fuel kind of, not only would it burn 5 foot long logs but it had a kerosene injector that would start those logs and the turn off when it got to...

I have a small Quadrafire wont take them anywhere near that size.3-4 inch triangle 16" long is about it!

I did the same.. and probably 30-35 more after that! I have a garage full of dull blades but a sharpener and setter will cost $1500-$2500 and I just cant justify the expense. No sharpening service that I can find close by, and to ship them out to a sharpener and back isn't much if any cheaper...

Its a little over ten times what I paid for my little mill...

And only $46,000!

76 here today, and no snow in sight, YAY!!

EQIP ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM I did a lot of his way back maybe 20 years ago on a piece of property they eliminated all the Cedars off my 160 acres I’m sure they’ve changed rules and regulations by now and how it is done

so then it is a "pie wedge" cut into the tree, yes?

Question on the hole you cut for the jack. I understand how to cut the front, back, top and bottom.. but then how do you get the block of wood out? just bash it with a maul or something?

Awwww, thanks! I deliver them at the end of this week, cant wait.

Which one do you have! Are you talking about a digital/electronic variable speed? They seem to get pricy. Or just the variable belt style where the pullies adjust in and out like a go cart clutch as opposed to moving the belt by hand from/to different sized pullies? And I've heard that about...

I do like Jet tools, I have a Jet shaper and a 16" Jet planer I have been happy with and have been looking at a couple Jet lathes.

My thoughts exactly.

Good one.. not that I am aware of though.

I just don’t have any metal trees here

So the wife mentioned she was thinking about getting me a wood lathe for Christmas , Hmmm.. do not know much about them. I played with them in high school but that was almost 40 years ago! I do have a pretty much complete wood shop, in fact I have 100 acres with lots of trees, a sawmill, and...

Thanks, still trying to get smoother. Its a DJI FPV drone.

Here's a little more of the place...

Thanks

Been there done that!

You can always turn down the volume! ;) My last drone had no audio and I'm worthless at editing / adding music and such so I like a little noise with it!

Didn't know we had a video section..

Thanks, had a couple oak slabs lying around and some pine 6x6s, made one for myself a while back , they just bought a new house thought I'd make them a couple. Works out good as we are driving down to Texas at the end of the month I can take them down. I'd hate to try to ship them they weigh a ton!

Made a couple more benches with stuff from out in my saw yard. Hosewarming gifts for my daughter and her new husband.

Whats to keep them from rolling off the other side when you lift them?

Maybe you are just old? :D

So sorry Btutus got an owie!

Same way here.. seems half the traffic on the roads are log trucks.

Dang, hope it works well!

Most of my pine goes to lumber, most of my hickory and oak goes to firewood.

Softwood around here mostly makes construction lumber.. and some pulp with the smaller stuff.

Pine is about all they want here... BIG business in this part of the world.. All SYP!!

I just wished I had some large oak trees to blow down!! Mostly pines here, all the big oaks are gone.

Nice tag ,they took mine down!!:mad:

I was thinking more along the lines of chunking it up for my Kamado!!

Kubota 3540, my rear tires are filled but if I'm going to pick up a large log or something I normally put my flail mower on, it's my heaviest implement.

Yeah, they w yeah, they want 65 bucks a piece here

All I need is about 2! ;-)

Seems wood would be better for a power outage??

Yeah, I dont even like messing with the bigger stuff anymore, on the splitter or the saw mill. And I like my splitter in the vertical position, then I can just sit there and work. I have no production goals or anything, just split for my own use and here in SC I only need a couple cords a year...

Eventually I'll replace em with tin... maybe

it was about 16-18 DBH which is pretty good size for around here

So I'm thinking I will disagree with that article! I read that whole thing and it kind of scared me, I was hoping I hadn't just wasted my time cutting that tree down but come to find out that sweetgum is a pleasure to split!! Granted I do not yet know how it will dry and burn but splitting so...

Yeah, Yeah, hope he didn't get caught up in this scamdemic!

Yes, I'm tired of replacing those cracked bulbs!

That 5 year warrantee is nice!

I would think it would increase the gas in the cylinder

In more ways than one I'm guessing. ;)

No bulb on this one either but normally starts in 2-3 pulls. I like the controls better than my Stihls as well.

Well if they are on fire they make heat...

I've had a little 301 top handle saw for many years and its still going!

Oh sure.... now you tell me!! I'll find out in the next day or two, I'll finish bucking it up, move it to the splitter and give it a go.

Out cutting today to add to my firewood reserves for next year. This is a new one, a Sweetgum tree, Never cut one for firewood before we will see how it does. I will say one thing for it its very heavy wood, we'll see how it dries. Oh, and I'm loving my new Echo 501P chainsaw, I sold my Stihl...

Yes indeed it is!! I also have springs all over the place feeding it and my ponds. Stuff here all flows to the Gulf..

I have a stream like that on my place, but it starts and finishes completely on my property! Comes out of the ground as a spring, goes through the woods, travels through both my ponds back through the woods and empties into the river that borders one end of the property.

WHAT??? Say it aint so!

Cleaning up the branches is ALWAYS the hard part!

NICE!! Makes it easy to work on!! Most of the trees I fall these days I do so on the edge of one of my fields just so its easy like that.

And that could be, I never had that problem though.

I tried chicken farming a bunch of times, got the chicks and they always died.. not sure if I was planting them too deep or too close together!

Before my sawmill days I bought a bunk of cedar for a project I was doing.. lots of cutting and milling turning it into finish lumber.. never noticed any itching.

Man I wish I had some big cedars here..

You caught those in your own pond?? Nice!

That fish?? I put him back in..

Well duh.. Of course I do!

Thanks And its just Scott

Well I pulled this guy out of there, does that count?

Well I dont have a lake, but I have a pond...

Such a cool view!! And Good morning from South Carolina USA!

The big round thing.. is that a stack of something or a large pipe with a lid on it?

Nice, is that a clean up project, or out gathering firewood or both?

Check and see Check and see what sidewall says for pressure. I had the same problem on my tractor till I did some research and jacked pressure on my fronts way up from book. Works SO much better now.

What air pressure do you keep in those front tires?

Well get you a little mill then...

What a shame to make firewood out of it!

That looks exactly like it but mine are 5' wide..

Its a dam tarp!! So, these tarps are very heavy duty, made for lining a dam in a small impoundment... Dam Tarp! :D These are like 5' x 100' I used to sell them at a place I worked they were about $50, they could not sell them so they put them on clearance for 2 bucks a piece.. By the time I...

Nice job dadohead.. And Welcome to the forum!! Very nice looking place and set up you have there. Here in South Carolina I only go through 1 1/2-2 cords a year so I just move my wood to the house one tractor bucket at a time. My storage racks are stationary, I split , then load on the racks to...

Hmmmm Reminds me of the fun of my youth!

Well come on down... I'm sure I can find some needles or something like them around here!!

I figured as much..

Yeah, I go through my fair share of ibuprofen, and sit in the hot tub a lot! It helps..

Never been to one, but then I'm only 65..

Well lets see... buying logs defeats the purpose, I cut down my own trees! My splitter that I've for about 15 years cost $900 and still works great! and the saw... I think I have 5 of them now, from 20 years old to 1 year old. Yes I own land, I always have.. just part of life, I would live on...

3-4 years ago my LP bill was $1200 for the months of Dec, Jan, and Feb.. Since I added the wood stove I've not spent that much on LP since!

I'll have to disagree, wood heat is WAY cheaper than LP!! Yeah its a bit labor intensive but much cheaper. Our LP bill is the reason I added the wood stove and have pretty much eliminated the LP all together.

I have always known a cord to be 128 cubic feet, not 180

Very nice ones, why dont you just grapple them off?

Yes, thats the way I used to do but my internet here is SO BAD, last time I did that it took 58 hours to upload a 2 1/2 minute video so I've kinda given up on it!

I take tension off my blade every time I quit cutting for the day and retention it again next time I fire it up to work. Haven't had a blade crack yet. Not sure those things are connected...

I wish we had cedars big enough to do that.. I think my biggest is about 4" dia!

No extra fuel, just the chimney effect when set down on a fire.

Second picture... I love those hollow logs for the campfire!!

Nice!! should make good lumber!

And a tractor, and a loader, and a snow blower....

I keep a red marker with my sharpening set up so I just count strokes till I see red like diesel said

Same way I do it, and when I get done I give all the rakers two strokes.

But you still need a use for all those Ricks.

Ah ha!! now it all makes sense, thanks!

I'm cutting 90% + pine , how many hours a day varies. I'm 65 now and only cut for my own use, so rarely do I cut for a full day. I may go out and drop a couple trees, then I cut logs to what ever length I may need, remove branches, load the logs on my trailer, branches to a burn pile, haul the...

Yep, I have forks and a grapple, I like to get my trailer close, pick up the logs set them on the trailer then drive them over to my mill, keeps the logs pretty clean that way. I had a field cut into the middle of my woods so when I need lumber I cut on the edge of the field ,drop said tree...

I try never to skid logs if possible, If I have to resharpen more than once in a day, its time to quit for the day! ;-)

I sharpen mine by hand, bought a grinder but dont like it, it sits in cabinet..

Good thing he didn't trash the whole saw!!

WOOT WOOT!!

I can sharpen a chain pretty good, but not that good.

Good reason not to loan tools...