Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[mike0000]

I hit a sack of concrete on the freeway on my right front wheel with my old Mercedes diesel 240D at 60 mph (downhill for those that never drove a 240D). I thought to myself I would need front end work, for sure. I took my hands off of the steering wheel afterwards and it drove straight as an arrow. Those things were built like slow motion tanks, but one of the most well balanced vehicles I ever drove with excellent sight lines.

We had a 1984 300D that had 340k miles on it when we got rid of it. We replaced it with a 1999 E300, 6cylinder turbo diesel that we bought used w/116k miles. I still drive it, now has 280k, it’s the best car I’ve ever owned.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I had to quit pulling out wood at 10 o'clock this morning, so I had two and a half mornings below freezing to work. It's warming up fast - 54* here now. Glad I had this short window between too much snow and mud. This is a hitch from yesterday. It's a 1/4 mile skid.

And this is what I ended up with this morning.

gg

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon,
This is an old shot of my 49 Super A pulling a load of wood off of a neighbor’s property, not long after I rebuilt the Super A. Looks like the fall of 2006.

 

[Molalla1]

I had to quit pulling out wood at 10 o'clock this morning, so I had two and a half mornings below freezing to work. It's warming up fast - 54* here now. Glad I had this short window between too much snow and mud. This is a hitch from yesterday. It's a 1/4 mile skid.

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And this is what I ended up with this morning.

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gg

Nice work Gordon! Warming up fast that's damn cold!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, my nephew and me, managed to get one of the two big oak logs I have to cut up, blocked up,

and I even managed to think up a job for the new tractor,

I loaded them on my sno-mobile trailer, to "quarter" later with a chainsaw,

and we ended up with a pretty good load of rounds,

I had forgot how much extra work it was to use a small tractor for firewood, glad I'm not stuck using one all the time, I guess I'm just use to the extra muscle of a bigger tractor.

SR

 

[Molalla1]

Well, my nephew and me, managed to get one of the two big oak logs I have to cut up, blocked up,

and I even managed to think up a job for the new tractor,

I loaded them on my sno-mobile trailer, to "quarter" later with a chainsaw,

and we ended up with a pretty good load of rounds,

I had forgot how much extra work it was to use a small tractor for firewood, glad I'm not stuck using one all the time, I guess I'm just use to the extra muscle of a bigger tractor.

SR

Ya, that is a little thing SR . . . nice rounds though . . .

 

[scott_vt]

Good Morning,
Another older shot I came across the other day ! Full buckets, this is before I put a new QA and 6 ft bucket on my Massey.

 

[BackRoad]

The period in the North when it first transitions from freezing days and nights to those few initial days of early Spring sun and 50 degree days is by far my most favorite time of the year.

It's short and easy to miss. I believe it's triggered by a combination of the excitement of the promise of Spring still yet to come, and the confirmation that another Winter is drawing to a close...

I live for being out in that first warm sun doing about anything...it doesn't matter what...just to be alive and thankful for something so seemingly simple.

Many say no way I'd live back in the cold North, and I'm not stirring it up...but I lived in the rainy damp cold of Louisiana for 5 winters and the brief intense snows and cold of Oklahoma for over 20 winters - but those early Spring days living in the South weren't nearly as celebratory and spectacular as they are living in the North...at least for me...

 

[scott_vt]

Good Afternoon Backroad,

The period in the North when it first transitions from freezing days and nights to those few initial days of early Spring sun and 50 degree days is by far my most favorite time of the year

Well stated my friend

 

[jigs_n_fixtures]

The period in the North when it first transitions from freezing days and nights to those few initial days of early Spring sun and 50 degree days is by far my most favorite time of the year.

It's short and easy to miss. I believe it's triggered by a combination of the excitement of the promise of Spring still yet to come, and the confirmation that another Winter is drawing to a close...

I live for being out in that first warm sun doing about anything...it doesn't matter what...just to be alive and thankful for something so seemingly simple.

Many say no way I'd live back in the cold North, and I'm not stirring it up...but I lived in the rainy damp cold of Louisiana for 5 winters and the brief intense snows and cold of Oklahoma for over 20 winters - but those early Spring days living in the South weren't nearly as celebratory and spectacular as they are living in the North...at least for me...

When I was living and working in Las Vegas, the same few weeks were also the best of the year. You were actually comfortable in shirt sleeves and blue jeans. After those few weeks in the spring, it got hotter than the gates of hell. But you still had to wear boots and blue jeans. Before that you needed to wear a jacket. And, those few weeks let you acclimate to the heat. Get stuck working inside for those weeks, and summer was a long hot endurance drill.