Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Flash back home with a few less teeth and my credit card a bit heavier.

Oh no, not you too! Did you catch something from RS? :laughing:

Hope you're feeling better in no time...

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Hey Y'all!

Hope all is well. I finally loaded pictures from my phone to my laptop, so I'm trying this update from earlier in the month...

We started on Monday, June 26th. There was a stand of mature trees between the back of the carport & the metal "Barn". This stand of trees was smack in the view of the screen porch we will build in our New House.

June 2015, this stand of trees the lumber jacks did not want to cut, so we were on our own. So we hired a chainsaw wizard. He showed up 6/26.

The first pic is a "Before" pic at about 4:30pm. By 8:30 he had dropped them all right on a dime, never even close to the house or barn. We did use a rope on a couple by hand, and one 3-4 really close to house or barn using the tractor.

OK, reverse that. Go right to left...

Be well all,
David

 

[RedNeckGeek]

What a relief, David! Glad it turned out so well.

In a year or two you'll have plenty of cured firewood to keep you warm in the winter, and plenty of work until then getting it bucked and split to keep you warm until then!:laughing:

 

[MossflowerWoods]

So we could not start working on those owned trees until the weekend. So this is Pictures from Saturday and Sunday of July 1-2.

We managed to process all the trees on one side (most of the big ones) and two on the other side that weekend.

Be well,

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

What a relief, David! Glad it turned out so well.

In a year or two you'll have plenty of cured firewood to keep you warm in the winter, and plenty of work until then getting it bucked and split to keep you warm until then!:laughing:

Oh I have one heck of a pile of fire wood logs the loggers left me last year... I need to go take a picture of that!!!!

LOL!

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

This is where I am now. This is all we have left.

BUMMER! I tried to upload an MP4 video and it failed!!!

I've been stuck at this stage for almost 2 weeks due to weather and schedule.

We spent July 1-2 all day, and half or a bit more of each day on July 15-16.

My next post will talk about "How" we processed the trees...

Be well,
David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Processing the wood...

Most of it is pine, all of the big stuff. So I moved the hardwood trunks nd larger limbs to my firewood bucking area. I cut some pine fire wood for the outdoor fire pits.

Some pine I've set aside for building a backstop for my 100m firing range I am planning.

The largest "Logs" we have set aside in 17' lengths, approx 18" minimum at the butt end, for a guy with a private saw mill who wants to plank them, we will get a few nice planks in trade out of this. The picture of the "logs" shows qty. 14 I believe, but I'm up to 18 or more now and there in one tree left with possibly 2 more "logs" in it.

I will say, I was running light ballast (only the stump grinder) and the largest log there was just about all I could pick up and drive the tractor to move it (it was tippy front to back, but low and slow worked).

EVERYTHING ELSE. All the "greenery" and tops, limbs etc. we burned in the burn pit in the other picture, or I staged into another future burn burn pit, not pictured.

My wife worked the burn pit and smaller stuff debris using a dump wagon and the lawn tractor, and I worked my chainsaw and tractor.

She even managed to rake up many loads of the pine straw and burn it.

Hard work bubba!

Be wel all,
David

 

[lennyzx11]

Hi everyone. It's been a while. Glad to see Ed back!
All is not quiet in the Rolex household. Mrs Rolex (known by her Indian name as "She who speaks loudly.") is having trouble comprehending my latest plan.
1. I have a perfectly good L3301 Kubota. We agree.
2. I have a 1947 Ford 2n that is determined to somehow maim me in some way. We agree.
However, our logic differs henceforth.
I wanted to buy a backhoe for the Kubota for around 9k in order to remove a stump in front of my shop that is in the way of building and extension to cover my tractor and implements. Sell implements was her proposal. Nay. I said.
Then rent a backhoe for a week for a couple of grand or so she said.
But that is money that could be applied to a purchase. (Rolling of eyes is exhibited)
Then I see a mint MF135 (that you guys know I've been wanting) and now it's in the "one or the other" proposal from the opposing parties.
I cannot get her to understand that these are for different things.
The 3301 is my main tractor.
The mf135 is one of the best older tractors built and would be a great auxiliary complement to the Kubota.
The 2n is so hateful that I can't sell it to anyone in good conscience.

Then loud words just started because while at the Kubota dealer, I test drove a B26 TLB that "I THINK" would be a perfect answer to most of my tasks.
True, It doesn't have a cup holder for beer cans but I will suffer for my family as one should.

Now I seem to be sleeping on the couch.

Any ideas?

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Any ideas?

I think you'd be disappointed with the 3 point backhoe if you're trying to dig stumps in anything other than soft loam. They just don't have the down or curl force of a real backhoe, and using them to the limits of the hydraulics stresses the mounts and attachment points to the point of breaking something. Forget about reaching over the stump, forcing the bucket into the ground, and curling to pop the stump out of the ground. All you'll do is hit the pressure limiter and maybe get the bucket stuck. Better to rent a real backhoe, or better yet, spend the money to have someone come in and grind out the stump for you. That's probably the cheapest solution, unless you want to rent a stump grinder and get a real tiger by the tail. :laughing:

I don't know anything about the 2n, but if you don't want to put the necessary money into fixing it so it's safe, sell it to someone that will. Disclose all you know that's wrong with it and be rid of it in good conscience.

But at the end of the day, if you're fighting about money and it doesn't go her way, you lose.:confused2:

:2cents:, and probably not worth that...

 

[lennyzx11]

I think you'd be disappointed with the 3 point backhoe if you're trying to dig stumps in anything other than soft loam. They just don't have the down or curl force of a real backhoe, and using them to the limits of the hydraulics stresses the mounts and attachment points to the point of breaking something. Forget about reaching over the stump, forcing the bucket into the ground, and curling to pop the stump out of the ground. All you'll do is hit the pressure limiter and maybe get the bucket stuck. Better to rent a real backhoe, or better yet, spend the money to have someone come in and grind out the stump for you. That's probably the cheapest solution, unless you want to rent a stump grinder and get a real tiger by the tail. :laughing:

I don't know anything about the 2n, but if you don't want to put the necessary money into fixing it so it's safe, sell it to someone that will. Disclose all you know that's wrong with it and be rid of it in good conscience.

But at the end of the day, if you're fighting about money and it doesn't go her way, you lose.:confused2:

:2cents:, and probably not worth that...

It was all meant in fun. We haven't fought in years.
I apologize for misconstruement of the post.
All is good and we don't remember the last time we actually "fought".

Thanks for the advice.