Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Duds13]

Fetched two trees from two neighbors, this weekend. One larger oak, and one medium ash. Had to scramble both mornings, while ground was frozen, as afternoon sun softened the surface both days.

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At one point, I returned home with a load, to find my tall pile had rolled down, thanks to thawing conditions, and had to be piled up all over again:

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Unfortunately this site still limits photo size to some antique standard, lower than that which any modern iPhone takes, so half my photos won’t post from my phone.

Damn nice wood lot you got there!

 

[BackRoad]

You guys are way more smart and efficient with your wood processing!

I'm still a bit more brute force and manual labor at this point, but I only burn a couple of bins per year in a high efficiency fireplace for a bit of atmosphere on the weekends, or the coldest of nights and early mornings.

6 bins filled this year with more to split and the logs have been down over a year, so the supply is well ahead of demand!

 

[Gordon Gould]

I cut a good fir today that didn't have any well developed stump rot. One of very few I have found in a couple decades of cutting them. I don't know why I get excited about this stuff. Anyway, it had a good lean to the the left but there was good holding wood anchored in the root buttress on the right.

The hold wood did it's job and the tree fell per plan.

Got it limbed out

I decided to pull it out in two pieces. And cut it where the crook was and at the top of usable wood (6" dia).

When I got up to the road I considered using the power pole for a bumper and skidding the logs down the road side 200' to the left to my log pile. But good judgement got the best of me and I made up the saw logs (a 14' and two 12's) right there.

Then grappled them down to the pile.

gg

 

[BackRoad]

That looks like maybe it's a full load for your dump truck Mr. Gordon?

Are prices at the mill interesting yet?

 

[Gordon Gould]

That looks like maybe it's a full load for your dump truck Mr. Gordon?

Are prices at the mill interesting yet?

There is never a lot of money in Spruce and Fir here. I've seen it from $250 to over $450 with $350 a pretty steady average over the last 5 years. It's $375/mbf at Canapy now.

That's creeping up on two loads in my little one-ton. About 500 bf/load.

gg

 

[DaninOhio]

Way too many to choose from. Been doing it this way for a while now, hope to keep at it a while longer too.

 

[Jstpssng]

That is a nice looking fir. Looking at the growth rings it didn't spend much time in the canopy. I could be wrong but believe that it's those trees which were suppressed for 30-40 years that end up with rot. Cut down a 6 foot tall, 40 years old tree and you will see why I think that.

 

[Runner]

Way too many to choose from. Been doing it this way for a while now, hope to keep at it a while longer too.

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Nice setup and great choice of tractor!

 

[WinterDeere]

Way too many to choose from. Been doing it this way for a while now, hope to keep at it a while longer too.

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Nice wagon. I have it's sibling.

 

[John_Mc]

Way too many to choose from. Been doing it this way for a while now, hope to keep at it a while longer too.

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What trailer is that? or did you make it yourself?