Winches When wives take photos

[Rod in Forfar]

We waited until the snow conditions were right and then cut up and skidded out a substantial black walnut which a wind storm took down in the centre of the woodlot.

My recently-retired wife took some photos and circulated them to her friends with a note bragging about her prowess with a logging winch. The following comment came from one:

"That is one happy looking husband of yours! Give a man some cold weather, a tractor and something sharp to play with and he is off and running!! What fun you must both be having! I'm so jealous!"

 

[Ford tractor]

And yet you don't include any of the pictures?

 

[teg]

ditto, we need photos... (Need help? just ask)

 

[NOTV8]

Remember the rules.... put pics or it never happened .

 

[bigbull338]

i bet you was enjoying your tractor time.

 

[Rod in Forfar]

Here's a link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/rodcros/LoggingWinterOf2011#

 

[herringchoker]

Rod...some nice logs there. It would be a shame not to use them. Nice old Massey too!

 

[Beefie]

Looks like a productive day, should get some nice boards out of those three logs. What tractor were you using to load and winch those logs? Nice old Massey.


Beefie

 

[RobertBrown]

We waited until the snow conditions were right and then cut up and skidded out a substantial black walnut which a wind storm took down in the centre of the woodlot.

That's a money tree there my friend. Is it as big as it looks? You could sell that with out even touching it. I'm guessing several dozen stocks and forearms.
Do you know what it is worth?

 

[grsthegreat]

na silly boy...this is how you skid trees :laughing: :thumbsup:

 

[BethesdaEC]

na silly boy...this is how you skid trees :laughing: :thumbsup:

A normally aspirated 2 HP motor and I it doesn't even appear to be a diesel.

 

[whodat526]

A normally aspirated 2 HP motor and I it doesn't even appear to be a diesel.

nope looks like pure ethanol

 

[crbr]

Here's a link.

https://picasaweb.google.com/rodcros/LoggingWinterOf2011#

Beautiful barn.

 

[ding2520]

When I read the title of the post I thought for sure that all of the photos would be rotated 90 degrees. At least that is the way most of the women I know take their pictures.

 

[20 20]

Nice logs wish I had atleast one of them, make some great bowls and carvings, not to mention lumber.

 

[DJ54]

The bottom right log appears to be windshook up that far. Hope you can salvage some from the other half...

 

[smstonypoint]

The bottom right log appears to be windshook up that far. Hope you can salvage some from the other half...

Just curious.

What do you mean by "windshook"?

How are you identifying that condition from the photo?

 

[DJ54]

Follow the two splits to the center from the right side. Then note the dark circle out about an inch from the heart. Either that is a dark growth ring, or, when it snapped, it literally pulled the heart of the tree/log loose from the rest of it.

I've seen a few like that, that Dad sawed on his mill, that people brought him that blew down in windstorms. Some snapped off like this one, or some just uprooted, but bowed back and forth so much from the wind, it again, literally pulls the heart out of the tree. Or on outward, and when making a cut, that piece just falls apart. Old timers around here always called it windshook.

 

[smstonypoint]

Follow the two splits to the center from the right side. Then note the dark circle out about an inch from the heart. Either that is a dark growth ring, or, when it snapped, it literally pulled the heart of the tree/log loose from the rest of it.

I've seen a few like that, that Dad sawed on his mill, that people brought him that blew down in windstorms. Some snapped off like this one, or some just uprooted, but bowed back and forth so much from the wind, it again, literally pulls the heart out of the tree. Or on outward, and when making a cut, that piece just falls apart. Old timers around here always called it windshook.

Thanks for the explanation. I had not heard that term used before.

Are some tree species more susceptible to being "windshaken" than others?

Steve

 

[wedge40]

na silly boy...this is how you skid trees :laughing: :thumbsup:

Got local guy who does this and he say's most of his work is from people who want an area thinned, but don't wont it destroyed in the process. Also that 2HP skidder can go up steeper hills than most regular tractors can.

Wedge