Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

I was thinking of the fuel valves but never when I'm somewhere that sells them. I also thought of
the "clips" on a medical IV line. A small ratchet-style pincher type thing that definitely works by
the drip.

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My saw has an automatic set up, when I hit the throttle it opens the valve, when I let off it shuts off the flow, I'm sure you could find it out there somewhere. its just a small cable operated valve is all.

 

[WADFL]

Here's from the last time I had the splitter out.
It's a 25-Ton unit from CountyLine @ Tractor Supply. I got it on clearance because they were switching vendors from a USA-made one (2017) to a Chinese-imported model (2018). It probably has around 20 hours total usage.
This stack of wood took about an hour and will last at least 6-months of firepit, camp fire, and house fireplace usage.

 

[aeblank]

Here's from the last time I had the splitter out.
It's a 25-Ton unit from CountyLine @ Tractor Supply. I got it on clearance because they were switching vendors from a USA-made one (2017) to a Chinese-imported model (2018). It probably has around 20 hours total usage.
This stack of wood took about an hour and will last at least 6-months of firepit, camp fire, and house fireplace usage.

I bring THAT much every weekend when we go camping.
Granted, 1/3 of it usually comes back home, but not always....

https://imgur.com/U6NANCy

 

[fruitcakesa]

Up here in Caledonia county we have a lot of shake (ring separation) in our Hemlock. A mill I used in Littleton, NH would not take Hemlock from here unless he knew the lot it came from to be OK. Do you have trouble with shake in your Hemlock?

How old are your leave trees? I have Hemlock but no pure stands like you do - just scattered around so I don't know much about it. But in my pure stands of fir that look like your Hemlock the trees are all about the same age. No matter if they are 24" or 6" . The small ones will never recover from their stunted condition if released. Hemlock may be different - I know it lives a lot longer than fir. Well over 100 years vs 75 for fir.

gg

So far so good on ring shake, have yet to come across any, fingers crossed.
I actually don't know if the residual trees will be helped or if some other opportunistic plant will take over.
The bigger trees 20"+ dbh, are pushing 90+ YO; the rings got too small after 55 years and there was still a few inches of tree stump left to count.
I haven't checked any smaller trees. but all the crowns are pretty uniform.

 

[WADFL]

Anyone want to see some saws?

 

[deezler]

All I see is a cardboard box....

 

[Yogi05]

Still 100F here but I went at it again for a couple hours. Had some help this time which made dragging logs out of the bush using a chain and tongs easier. (didn't have to get out to set the tongs all the time, and someone to spell me cutting in lengths.)

Still trying to learn how to cut to size so actually fired up the saw. Buddy wanted to see it work anyway.
At some point he pushed the carriage back after a cut. I had seen the guides were not set up right and the blade climbed a bit through that cut. I didn't have a chance to tell him to stop.

So the blade came off. On the bright side, I wondered what carnage the blade coming off could cause and now I know it's not a big deal.

So now I have to learn learn how to tension the blade. Fed it back on but it's loose now???

From the blade side. This drive wheel seems to have all the adjustment

But a shaft goes straight to the wheel with the belt to the clutch, and there's no adjustment on that wheel that I saw at a glance.

Looks like there's a square beam inside a square beam from one blade wheel to the other, but it wouldn't move. Probably seized like everything else has been.
I forgot to put one caption in the pic below. Shows an adjustment rod type setup yet it doesn't move or connect to anything that looks like it moves. Maybe
that's where you hang your lunch box?

It was too hot to start swinging hammers to get the 2 beams to move so until I'm out there again, maybe someone can give pointers???

Thanks all who have taken an interest in my sawmill education

 

[IndyJay]

Looks like if you loosen the T-handle you should be able to slide this part to add tension?

 

[Yogi05]

That's the lock handle for the blade guides (bearings).
That square shaft is the horizontal positioning.
Played with that before, and today I had to adjust it because as I made more cuts on the one log (for practice)
the guides were hitting the dog.

 

[IndyJay]

Okay, looked like it was attached to the piece holding the pillow block bearings. So the adjustment screw turns freely without any movement of the square tubing pieces? Does the threaded shaft move in and out when you turn it? If it does, then maybe something at the end of the threaded shaft broke or came loose from the sliding square tube part.