Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Billrog]

The fir are fairly stable now Tom approx. 30 yrs. ago it looked real bad thought we would lose all the fir but the healthy ones over came and maybe it was a real cold winter and logging the effected ones that helped.


Enough fir still die every yr. to keep me busy I don't have a lot of pine but here's what the pine beetle looks like.


When I sit down for a coffee and it's real quiet you can hear the crubs munching.

 

[Dascro]

Billrog,

I use an electric winch installed on a box blade to get timber out of the woods (I think I have posted pics on this forum not too long ago). So similar to a small degree to what you use. Where did you get the "skidder" attachment to install the winch and battery on?

Dave

 

[xring100]

Why go to horizontal? Pull up a 5 gal bucket, put a small pillow on it and split everything sittting down.

Splitfire splits in both directions of the ram travel but only option for orientation is a horizontal split.

No problems here as long as I can roll it i can lift it with the splitter. One advantage.
For the really big stuff like this I will typically lower the splitter close to the ground. An advantage of the 3pt style.

 

[Billrog]

I built it out of scraps Dave 15 or 20 yrs. ago.
That's a real nice splitter Xring.

 

[TomSeller]

The fir are fairly stable now Tom approx. 30 yrs. ago it looked real bad thought we would lose all the fir but the healthy ones over came and maybe it was a real cold winter and logging the effected ones that helped.
When I sit down for a coffee and it's real quiet you can hear the crubs munching.

Need to ship you some woodpeckers.

 

[Gordon Gould]

The fir are fairly stable now Tom approx. 30 yrs. ago it looked real bad thought we would lose all the fir but the healthy ones over came and maybe it was a real cold winter and logging the effected ones that helped.
Enough fir still die every yr. to keep me busy I don't have a lot of pine but here's what the pine beetle looks like.

When I sit down for a coffee and it's real quiet you can hear the crubs munching.

Looks like you get plenty of work keeping you trails open. Interesting bug pics Bilrog. We get bark beetles and pine sawyers here but they only seem to attack and kill trees that are already under stress from something else like drought or stump rot or logging damage. Then the beetles are the final straw that kills them. You showed a pic of a vertical tree full of bore holes. When ours are like that every hole has pitch running out of it. The whole stem get covered. Once that happens they are no good.
All my fir (balsam) gets stump rot after about 50 or 60 years. You have to leave it long enough to grow into a log but cut it before it dies and become worthless. I usually loose 1 to 4 feet and sometimes more off the butt due to stump rot.

 

[xring100]

I built it out of scraps Dave 15 or 20 yrs. ago.
That's a real nice splitter Xring.

Thanks Bill,
Nice logging winch and property
Merry Christmas

 

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Timber Jack, 230 D

Now this is my style skidder. How often does it like to go down to the water for a drink?

 

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The fir are fairly stable now Tom approx. 30 yrs. ago it looked real bad thought we would lose all the fir but the healthy ones over came and maybe it was a real cold winter and logging the effected ones that helped.
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Enough fir still die every yr. to keep me busy I don't have a lot of pine but here's what the pine beetle looks like.
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When I sit down for a coffee and it's real quiet you can hear the crubs munching.

I love two things here: 1. that you made your own winch. 2. that you go into the woods with turfs. Do you ever have to chain them up Bill?

 

[Oldpath05]

Boy OPath I didn't realize how fast those little winches are. A cable skidder has very little over these speed wise to the 3 pt ones. One of the advantages however was that you didn't have to "dismount" the skidder to dog stems back up. I loved using cable skidders. Never got to drive the grapple ones as they came after I retired but I'm not sure how much I would like it because you couldn't unravel to gain a better purchase with the skidder like you can with the cable. I think I'd miss that too much.

I didn't know these tractor winches reeled in the cable that fast ether, (07) was the first time I ever used one, I was a little nervous at first, but now I'm used to the line speed, you just have to look quick and watch fast, because it's four times faster then an electric winch. Also for more $$$, most tractor winches can come with a remote control so winching can be done on the tractor, on the ground, behind the tree, or on top of the tree, but I got the basic model so I have to use the rope, I can do easy winching on the tractor, but the hard pull like that big hemlock, I have to be on the ground where I can get a better grip.