Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[LouieJunior]

I have a couple of cottonwoods that I have been cutting and burning. All that's left now are the trunks. One measures 70" at the base.

I used my logging winch to pull the trees tightly together earlier today. My father told me a long time ago you can never get a single log to burn -- but two will. Hopefully I can get these burned- up over the next few weekends. They are much to big for my saw and my grapple won't lift that much (even if I could get ahold of them).

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I thought I'd give you a look at my "storm damaged" hard maple tree's I'm cutting out,

Some of them will have decent logs in them that will go to my BSM, and some won't,

Anyway, with these warm temps, we decided to NOT take a heavy tractor to the woods and make a lot of ruts, instead we took something lighter and picked up wood we already had cut,

Even though we were dressed warm, it really was a nice day in the woods today!

SR

 

[sd455dan]

I find it interesting that when you blokes talk about going out and getting firewood, you seem to be almost always talking about cutting green wood and then stacking it to dry for a year or two.

In my part of Australia anyway, when someone talks about going to get some firewood, we usually mean that we will be cutting up long dead, well dry, wood. Either standing or fallen trees. Typical conversation - in Aussie drawl of course! - "Got any firewood in your back paddock I could cut mate?" "Nah, sorry mate, its all green".

I realise that many of the posts are talking about cutting up wind blown (or whatever) green trees so they don't go to waste, and of course we do that as well.

By the way, it was normal practice many years ago to "ringbark" trees on your land and let them die off, to be cut down for firewood when they had dried. Quick way to get in all sorts of trouble now!

Not intended as any sort of criticism, just curious.

I'm lucky that I have plenty of dead trees mixed in on my timbered land and can pick and choose what type of wood I cut.

In our area of the Northwest many of the pine trees are under attack by pine beetles and once the tree is poisoned it is just a matter of time until the tree dies and then it seems the ants go after it.
Many of the trees I have taken out on our property for firewood in the last few years have blown over or had a large piece of the tree break off. But they are generally sick. Some others were a concern because of their close proximity to buildings.

 

[Creamer]

Even though we were dressed warm, it really was a nice day in the woods today!

SR

Where is all your snow. I obviously do not mind the snow but 7-8" and 50 degrees just makes things a mess. i worked in the shop today. nice day but I didn't want to get that wet.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

We didn't have any snow, then several days ago we got 4" and now it's pretty much gone......again... lol

Tomorrow will be in the 50's.

SR

 

[PhysAssist]

I can small Granny's possum stew - mmmmmmmmm!
Building some bucket forks for moving the piles of slash that are starting to grow. Now working on the year after next's wood. It's thawing out, so I won't be able to pull a couple of blow downs out until we get another cold snap. The Plant Manager gave me the green light to make another capital investment - so I'm shopping for an inexpensive logging winch.
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It occurred to me that your last three words comprised a pretty obvious oxymoron.

...and if you somehow find proof that I'm full of bologna, please PM me as to where and how I can also buck the established paradigm.

 

[motownbrowne]

It occurred to me that your last three words comprised a pretty obvious oxymoron.

...and if you somehow find proof that I'm full of bologna, please PM me as to where and how I can also buck the established paradigm.

The Norse ones that labonville sells are quite a bit less expensive than many others. The 450 model with 10,000lbs of pull is less than $3000, and apparently includes shipping.

I was just discussing the price of these things with a friend of mine today. In my opinion, they are so gosh darned handy that if mine got stolen tomorrow I'd absolutely buy a new one. I'm often felling trees in a pretty dense stand. It's very common to have to pull a tree down that gets hung up on the way down. If i didn't have the winch, I'd have to put my tractor and my body much closer to the action. Instead i can hook up from 160' away and watch things happen from relative safety. To me, this safety factor alone is worth the price of admission, and makes the cost seem "cheap" even.

I know there's people that think they can build something that'll do the same job, but I really think that it's easy to spend 70% of the cost building something that does the job 60% (or less) as effectively. There's some situations where this isn't the case, but I think it applies in logging winches.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I know there's people that think they can build something that'll do the same job, but I really think that it's easy to spend 70% of the cost building something that does the job 60% (or less) as effectively. There's some situations where this isn't the case, but I think it applies in logging winches.

That's my thoughts too...

Except, I think the home builds do LESS than 60% and because of their faults, don't get used much, once the "new-ness" wears off...

SR

 

[bcp]

an inexpensive logging winch.

Just widen your rear wheels and put cable drums on the axles.

Bruce

 

[Fernland]

Burn day,