Bring Home The Log

[Egon]

Picture of a maple log I got from across the street and drug home with the B7100.

It made it up a 15 degree slope.

Egon

 

[slowzuki]

Nice job Egon! Are you gonna sink the chainsaw mill into it?

 

[Junkman]

I dragged a log like that across my driveway last year and when I pulled the chain from under it, there was a flat spot ground onto a couple of links. It was about the size of your log. Last time that I will do that and ruin a good chain. Hope that you didn't have the same bad luck with the chain... Nice job moving it though...

 

[MarkV]

Egon,

Now that is a log! You much have big beaver up your way. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

One of the things I always like about your projects is they show what you can do with a smaller tractor. We get into the "bigger is better" tractor debate to the point where I think some new comers feel like a little tractor can't do much but mow a finish yard. Here Egon has 68 acres, lots of snow, tills more rock than soil, works on some hills, hauls logs as big as some trailer homes and does it all with a tractor that has 2100 hrs, under 20 hp and turf tires.

Almost scares me to think what he would do with a 100 hp tractor. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

MarkV

 

[Egon]

Sure did. Took about 150 feet to wear out a non rated 3/8 chain. And it broke in the middle of the street on a 15 degree slope.

Egon

 

[AndyM]

I've got some oak bigger than that!!!
You can have it if you can drag it from Ohio to Nova Scotia, eh! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon, are you up for a challenge today? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Egon]

You Betcha.

And a few more too.

Egon

 

[Egon]

Andy, I've spent the last two days carting around 40 Kg. bags of lime. The only challange I'm looking forward to is gittin into my favorite chair with a good book.

Egon

 

[Dozernut]

Nice job, are you gone to cut the log into lumber? I had a friend give me a big hard Maple tree from his yard. This thing was big, about three and a half feet in diameter. I just pulled my band mill up to it and cut it on the spot. I must have hit about 1/2 dozen nails before I got it cut and this was after running a metal detector. Anyway I had some of the most beautiful wood with a little of every type of grain, flame, whorl, birds eye and so on. I stacked it outside and stickered it then covered it with a tarp, causing the wood would spalt. Then I moved it into the shop to finish air drying for a year. I built a futon sofa bed out of it which the family has really enjoyed.

 

[Egon]

Good show.

Egon

 

[Slamfire]

So how come you hooked the chain to the top link receptical on the tractor? Are you tryin' to pull the tractor over backwards. You need to push on the top link to hold the front end down. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Egon]

Slamfire:

Wondering when someone would notice.

It's hooked to the top so I can get weight on the rear tires. The bucket and the load there keep the frontend down. My foot is also allways on the clutch and my right hand on the three point control.

Egon

 

[fivestring]

Nice job on the futon.

Have you seen these?

www.sawmillcreek.org
www.woodworking.org

 

[Dozernut]

Thanks! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif I have added those sites to my bookmark list.

 

[ScottAR]

Might already know about it maybe not.
Forestry Forum
Good bunch, kinda like here only with sawmills...

Beautiful work fellas!

 

[nomad]

You dragged such a log on the street without using some small rollers under it.. and no fine bill from traffic or road maintanence officials? interesting place.

 

[markct]

whats wrong with dragging a log on the street, as long as it doesnt damage the road surface then no one usualy says anything, you just need to make sure that the end with the chain is lifted so the metal chain doesnt scrape the road, or wear down the chain, i have even moved large sheds by draging them on the road as long as they were on wooden skids all they do is leave light lines of wood dust on the road that wash away as soon as it rains