Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Molalla1]

You know how i feel about Dolmar saws

Yep, Dolmar are great saws.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Do you have ballast in your tires? probably with your tractor you can get by without it.

About 700 pounds in each one...

It takes a HEAVY log to get a rear wheel in the air.....and it doesn't happen often.

SR

 

[4570Man]

How much does the base tractor weigh?

 

[Loaderman22]

About 700 pounds in each one..

SR

Looks good SR, what do you have in the tires, calcium, beet juice, or something else?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Looks good SR, what do you have in the tires, calcium, beet juice, or something else?

Calcium, and these days I pretty much leave the skidding winch on the 3 point too...

SR

 

[BrokenTrack]

"or are you loading from a pile that you previously skidded to a landing or bunching area"1> Yes from a bunched area in the woods. 2>> yes trailer is unhooked from tractor, I'll try another video link of loading logs

I found "bunching" worked faster for me as well OldPath even with a log loader on my trailer. The time spent backing and maneuvering to get to each log as it was felled was just no where near as fast as spending some time bunching them to a path I could loop around with my log trailer on.

What I found was, at about 8 AM I would fell, limb and buck into measured logs, 12 or so trees, giving me about 33-35 logs, and be done about 11 AM. Then I would bunch my logs to the logging path for 45-60 minutes with my tractor, then go to lunch. After lunch I would come around and log loader and load my logs onto my trailer and by 3 PM have those logs out, and piled on the landing.

I liked this method the best because at the end of the day, everything I cut was out of the woods and piled up. There was no question on what I had for production that day, and since it takes about 100 logs to make a load for me, I knew in 3 days time I had made a load and could tell my truck driver to take them to the saw mill.

You are absolutely right about trailer logging though; log loader or not. Putting the logs on wheels is easier on the tractor in getting the wood out, and gives you a better scale for your logs. They say commercially speaking muddy wood does not matter, but I got a lot better scale with my logs once I stopped dragging them on the ground. The wood just looks cleaner, and if a scaler can see what they have, you will get a better scale for it.

My log trailer? It paid for itself in the first year I owned it.

 

[KenB2920]

You know how i feel about Dolmar saws

Lol, I know I know. I just can’t believe how much less expensive they are. Just seeing out there guys that may if used both and see what they say.

I know it snowed last night, but think it’s warmer out there today? May pull the machine out and dig more into that pile.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I do the same thing, cut the tree's, then the logs out,

skid them out to a landing,

Where they get sorted/loaded,

and hauled away,

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

What are we cutting halfway down now Sawyer Rob, White Oak maybe?

 

[Oldpath05]

My log trailer? It paid for itself in the first year I owned it.

Your logs go to Robins Lumber? My trailer paid for itself in one month, a log loader made it as far as the wish list and still there.