Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hosspuller]

Had a dying Oak tree next to the house taken down. Here's the crew cutting it into cookies. At DBH, it was 52 inches.

Set up to split the cookies... Using the backhoe loader to hold the chain hoist & tong. Loader bucket is resting on a 4x4. I pick up the cookie from the ground. Backhoe allows some side loading from the hoist as cookie is lifted from ground. As the cookie is split into chunks, the chain hoist allows easy handling without straining my old body. Slow but safely.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Had a dying Oak tree next to the house taken down. Here's the crew cutting it into cookies. At DBH, it was 52 inches.
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Set up to split the cookies... Using the backhoe loader to hold the chain hoist & tong. Loader bucket is resting on a 4x4. I pick up the cookie from the ground. Backhoe allows some side loading from the hoist as cookie is lifted from ground. As the cookie is split into chunks, the chain hoist allows easy handling without straining my old body. Slow but safely.
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Yikes - there's a lot of wood in that monster. Heavy work for you even with the loader I bet. Good pictures.

gg

 

[Piston]

Had a dying Oak tree next to the house taken down. Here's the crew cutting it into cookies. At DBH, it was 52 inches.
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Set up to split the cookies... Using the backhoe loader to hold the chain hoist & tong. Loader bucket is resting on a 4x4. I pick up the cookie from the ground. Backhoe allows some side loading from the hoist as cookie is lifted from ground. As the cookie is split into chunks, the chain hoist allows easy handling without straining my old body. Slow but safely.
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That’s a monster! That’s about a cord of wood every 8’.

 

[hosspuller]

7 feet across Stump just before being ground up ... That's my 70 pound adult Dobermann sitting on it

 

[dodge man]

You need to feed that poor dog! That’s a big tree. In a way I hate big rounds but you get a lot of wood out of them.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I cut some fire wood today. Some diseased beech, a yellow birch, and a nice apple tree that came down in the heavy snow. We had some nice cold weather this week and where it's dry the ground is finally froze enough so the wood stays clean. A nice change from limbing branchy fir trees. Logs like this make me wish I had a mill. The top was mostly dead and breaking apart so I cut it.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

7 feet across Stump just before being ground up ... That's my 70 pound adult Dobermann sitting on it

I thought that was a puppy. Instead it's a dog sitting on one big stump!

 

[hosspuller]

You need to feed that poor dog! That’s a big tree. In a way I hate big rounds but you get a lot of wood out of them.

He's 11 months old, pure Dobermann. May fill out some more as he matures. But he's naturally slender compared to my previous Dobes.

The big rounds are a challenge to handle and split. I figure each cookie weighs around 800 pounds. I use a FEL on the Deere tractor to move the cookies. Even quartered, I have to use the hoist to handle the piece. We heat home with wood so nothing is going to waste. This will age for at least two years.

 

[oldrustysteel]

Backhoes are pretty handy. You can correct me if I'm wrong but I have to say I would not be enticed with traveling any great distance however with this rather narrow track width.
Very nice set up none the less.

It is very slow traveling. If I have a big project very far from the barn, I try to plan it when we have no rain and I leave it in the woods. the track width has not been an issue so far. sometimes the narrow track width is an advantage.

 

[groundcover]

Those oak rounds aren't getting any lighter but the Witch isn't phased .