Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[QuasarZ]

Here is my current project. I have a few acres of heavy woods with a lot of downed trees. This current project is so I can clear a spot for the propane tank (building new construction). I was out for 8 hours yesterday cutting up this big tree and then a few hours today moving it to a new pile to split and then stack. Moving it several times is a pain but I feel it beats a gym membership haha.

 

[grnspot110]

I brought this load home from the farm today, about half was already cut, the rest cut today.

Wood rack by the shop is now full, the rest is in the "excess" pile along the back fence.

 

[Svendus]

Hi Svendus, that is brilliant.
You've a hose from the house tap and an inline water-pump perhaps?
Air compressor?



Must be massive amounts of force on the wedge welding given how high it is, even if the wedge is tilted forward (and thinner), limiting the resistance. I do like the concept of wedges being knives rather than relying solely upon brute force, provided you've got a long enough knife to not have to worry about pulling the wood pieces apart, and the thin knife is strong enough to take any twisting loads.

Do you still have the machine? How many cubic meters of wood did it split and what failed, if anything, on it first?

This is a really clever idea. Love it.

*edit*
Some googling came up with this:
SNIK KLYVEN
and a slideshow here:
SNIK VEDKLYVEN

so I guess it's powered by a waterblaster/pressure washer/ whatever you want to call it.

The Sunday sawmill is another clever idea. Same people or person behind the two designs? Is there more info' I could read to learn about them please?

Thank You
Yes it is driven with water hydraulic and the pump is a Kränsle 220 w15 high pressure washer it makes 250 bar
Cylinders are 75-63mm steel tubes with 63-50 mm pem plast tubes inside
Pistons are 50 mm made from Pehd plast.
The machine was the first test and 50 persons had it the first year and it were splitting about 1500 m3
We made 20 machines Snik 8t and 4t Laser but the EU detective made it complicated to work with the project
The machine speed are to much for Europe
But this first machine has made my 40 m3 firewood fore over 20 years and is still going Strong
The plast tubes are easy to renovate or change at very low cost.

 

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October is "bucking month" for me. I pluck the stems out that were dragged in the year before. This is the first year for this exercise with the 3016. It's a lot stronger than my previous tractor so bucking is going much faster. This type of load takes about 10 minutes to get on the ground.

 

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Going to read 94bullitt's thread on palletizing. That's been a thought for me lately (though i don't have the pallet forks *yet*). A guy was selling plastic pallets for like $8 each locally, which also seemed entertaining. I think they have pockets that could hold a 2x4 for side-walls. Not sure about the UV over time (years) though. Then again, wooden pallets rot too. My dad has some sides that he puts on his bucket that lets him stack higher--I probably will do the same eventually.

We cut in the woods (never understood skidding), split in the front field, and haul to the shed or basement. For now, the basement gets the "just in case" wood.

 

[vtsnowedin]

I'm trying to do a tree a day if it is not raining.

 

[Rustyiron]

These are Basswood, just about junk. I took them down around the garden for more sunlight this past spring. They've been in my firewood area all summer and they gotta go to make room for the snow this winter. I'm hauling them out back to use as a "corduroy road" through a swampy area.

 

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These are Basswood, just about junk. I took them down around the garden for more sunlight this past spring. They've been in my firewood area all summer and they gotta go to make room for the snow this winter. I'm hauling them out back to use as a "corduroy road" through a swampy area.

Rusty, basswood makes great carving wood for school kids. If your neighborhood schools do any wood carving or sculpture, you can sell them some chunks. To buy this wood from an art supply house costs an arm and a leg. A milk container quart size piece of basswood costs over 12 bucks from one of these places. By their pricing, you have close to $4000 or more of wood in your trailer.

 

[dieselcrawler]

I work for a honey bee farm and folk toy shop. We mill our own lumber and also heat with about 18 full cords per year. Boss, his son, and co-worker do most of the firewood, but I run the mill.

Bass wood is nice carving wood, my uncle loves it. We use it and meny other native woods for our toys. Poplar, cherry, oak, maple, sycamore, hickory, even sasafrass and cedar at times.



I showed up at work one morning to find this by the sawmill... boss had been cutting rough ends off saw logs and thought of this art project with the pieces...

 

[Gordon Gould]

I work for a honey bee farm and folk toy shop. We mill our own lumber and also heat with about 18 full cords per year. Boss, his son, and co-worker do most of the firewood, but I run the mill.

Bass wood is nice carving wood, my uncle loves it. We use it and meny other native woods for our toys. Poplar, cherry, oak, maple, sycamore, hickory, even sasafrass and cedar at times.



I showed up at work one morning to find this by the sawmill... boss had been cutting rough ends off saw logs and thought of this art project with the pieces...

He is an artist when a fine imagination or maybe one track mind :thumbsup:

gg