Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[MortalWombat]

The only maples that grow on my property I bought in 2012 are silver maples. One big one was about 20 feet from my house. It had three trunks, one of them leaning toward the house, and looked like it was starting to rot at the junction of the three trunks. I paid a professional tree guy $400 to take it down last year. It was cheaper than the deductible on my home insurance if (or when) it fell on it in a storm one of these days.

 

[4570Man]

Clearing dead falls and wife helping split wood. Something very satisfying with splitting wood and filling the wood rack. <img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/owning-operating/447347-tractors-wood-show-your-pics-image-jpg"/><img src="http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/files/owning-operating/447348-tractors-wood-show-your-pics-image-jpg"/>

Please tell your wife not to put her hand on top of the piece to be split.

 

[2diamondfarm]

 

[2diamondfarm]

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[Luke'sScreenName]

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[2diamondfarm]

Yea the clay makes it real fun any time it rains

 

[2diamondfarm]

Yea the clay makes it real fun any time it rains

 

[Baby Grand]

silver maple and red are two different trees Acer saccharinum and Acer rubrum respectively, though i have heard people call both water maple and yes they are soft maples, and quite similar. though when the red maple change for fall it is very very red

We live right next to a flood plain and have both red & swamp/silver, as well as sugar maples. I'm thinning out the swamp maples in favor of the sugar maples. The swamp maples don't make as warm or long burning fire in the woodstove as the sugar maples do. Then there's the matter of sugaring in the Spring. I prefer a tree that yields value while it's standing and after it's felled. Plus the sugar maples are such a handsome tree with nice symmetry in the trunk & limbs - the swamp maples limbs are often gnarly and deformed looking.

 

[bwalley]

The wife and I brought our wood down from the field with our LS tractor. We are building holzhausen to store the second half of our supply for the winter

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[roadhunter]

I build my "half cord" firewood boxes so they hold two rows of splits, that allows air to get all around the splits so they will dry right in the boxes,

then, when the wood is dry and I need it, I can pick the box up with my tractor,

and move it to my basement window,

where it get's throw down, to be burned in my wood/coal fired furnace...

SR

I like that idea using the window. I need to do something similar as my wood.coal furnace is in the basement as well. What kind of furnace do you have?