Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Smokeydog]

Hardwood makes soft paper products like toilet paper and softwood make hard paper products like cardboard and slick magazines.

 

[hunt4570]

Hardwood makes soft paper products like toilet paper and softwood make hard paper products like cardboard and slick magazines.

Softwood around here mostly makes construction lumber.. and some pulp with the smaller stuff.

 

[Jstpssng]

We can sell just about anything here except pine pulp... with varying degrees of profit. Seeing SmokeyDogs oak logs going into firewood almost made me cry.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Jstpssng - I was wondering if you got your mill yet? Just curious.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

Jstpssng - I was wondering if you got your mill yet? Just curious.

gg

Yes, I picked it up a month ago. I had so many things to do to ready for winter though, that I haven't even assembled it yet. That makes it a much easier package to keep under cover until I'm ready to start using it to saw out a shelter... next year after it stops snowing.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I'm glad you got it ! Since you haven't said much I was afraid they gave you another delay.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

We can sell just about anything here except pine pulp... with varying degrees of profit. Seeing SmokeyDogs oak logs going into firewood almost made me cry.

Most of my pine goes to lumber, most of my hickory and oak goes to firewood.

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm glad you got it ! Since you haven't said much I was afraid they gave you another delay.

gg

Unfortunately, it was me who had the latest delay. Apparently I'm not 20 anymore, I had two surgeries to put stents in both of my carotids. But now I'm good for another 60 years!!!

 

[hunt4570]

Unfortunately, it was me who had the latest delay. Apparently I'm not 20 anymore, I had two surgeries to put stents in both of my carotids. But now I'm good for another 60 years!!!

Dang, hope it works well!

 

[Gordon Gould]

This is the time of year I like to pull out my firewood. It was warm enough today to fiddle with a camera. There was a good sized white ash in a boggy area that got blown over barber-chair fashion last summer. The top was back in ankle deep water.

My plan was to pull it out as far as I could and then limb it out on dryer ground. I set up a snatch block on the far side of the road. I put out the camera to take a video of the set-up and winching. I thought it would make a good video if I was lucky enough to get it up over the bank and across the road. But if you have to depend on luck working in the woods you don't get very far. The tree got jammed just before it came in to view. Here is the anti-climax video anyhow. It shows the snatch block set-up and cable pull and an idea what I was trying to do.

After the tree got jammed in a stump coming up the bank I limbed the main stem so I could free it and pulled the stem across the road. I cut it where I was going to pull the hitch.

Then I pulled the cable back and pulled up some big limbs.

I pulled that all together to make a hitch.

Next trip I'll get the snag, another big branch and a maple that got taken down when the ash fell.

gg