Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[PhysAssist]

I have never seen sparks like that from any wood that was not wet on a hot fire. Is that the case?

Our Locust wood does that invariably as soon as you open the stove door and let cooler air in- regardless of how scrupulously dry the wood was before being burned- in fact, I think the wet wood does it less.

It's the kind of Locust with thick gnarly bark and yellow wood and thorns, lots and lots of little thorns on the branches [that I forget about pretty regularly and only remember after I'm punctured.]

BTW, as regards the question:

"Quote Originally Posted by 94BULLITT
This thread is not very active anymore. Is no one cutting wood since it is warm?"

We were cutting and splitting the pile of logs we have in our work area and I caught my right little finger between 2 ash logs and broke the last bone in it- and while I was waiting for that to heal, one a day a couple of weeks later, I was adding dye to our pond, when a part of the bank gave way- tumbling me down to the new lower rocky shore, and I bunged up the same finger even more- tearing the extensor tendon over the middle joint.

Ironically, I broke my toe by dropping an ash log on it last year- the same week almost.

However this year, I was wearing steel-toed shoes, my catcher's leg guards, kevlar gloves and arm sleeves, and the obligatory hearing and eye protection, and still broke my pinky.

TLDR version: I have been avoiding potential re-injury by doing other things while I wait for that to heal.

 

[DieselnHooters]

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That's that wood I was talking about, super hard stuff

Yep hard indeed but they dont get real big 5-6 inches dbh tops and not even that much when they grow in clumps which is most of the times. Both carpus aka blue beech and ostrya, another smallish tree, are nicknamed ironwood and I can see why.

Up here the more sought after firewood trees are sugar-maple, yellow -birch and beech, the 1st two can also be valuable saw logs so theres not that much of it for sale as firewood, especially sugar-maple given the sugaring done in these parts. So fair quality firewood for sale will usually be red-maple,ash, beech, paper birch, elm or lower quality/price_ aspen, poplar, larch, hemlock.

 

[94BULLITT]

The standard bar that mine came with is 3/8lp. 56 DL, 16". I bought a loop of Stihl PS without knowing the number of links, so I can report that with a little bit of filing, a 55 DL loop will work. I just had to take a touch off the tail and lengthen the oiler hole. Mine's currently running a 45 dl loop of Oregon VXL on a $9 12" bar from left coast supplies. The safely chain that came on the saw was pretty lame, but the PS, VXL, and Carlton N1C that I've run have all been good.

Also, for a few bucks more, Nate will swap the LP spur for a . 325 rim sprocket. Personally, I've been liking the LP, but options are always good.

I like LP on a small saw. The 16'' LP bar for my 261 is 62DL and the 16'' bar for a 250 is 64. I was just wondering if it took the same DL as Stihl. That is no big deal though.

 

[94BULLITT]

"Quote Originally Posted by 94BULLITT
This thread is not very active anymore. Is no one cutting wood since it is warm?"

We were cutting and splitting the pile of logs we have in our work area and I caught my right little finger between 2 ash logs and broke the last bone in it- and while I was waiting for that to heal, one a day a couple of weeks later, I was adding dye to our pond, when a part of the bank gave way- tumbling me down to the new lower rocky shore, and I bunged up the same finger even more- tearing the extensor tendon over the middle joint.

Ironically, I broke my toe by dropping an ash log on it last year- the same week almost.

However this year, I was wearing steel-toed shoes, my catcher's leg guards, kevlar gloves and arm sleeves, and the obligatory hearing and eye protection, and still broke my pinky.

TLDR version: I have been avoiding potential re-injury by doing other things while I wait for that to heal.

You have bad luck processing wood. I hope your pinky heals quick so you can get back at it.

 

[JCMC]

Here is what I have been doing Cut Split Stack

 

[Creamer]

That looks like a great setup. What is hanging under the roof of the wood shelter?

 

[TomSeller]

And is that a wood powered boiler to the left?

 

[Gordon Gould]

I like the way you split right at the wood pile under the shelter and have your wood right next to the boiler. Pretty efficient operation.

gg

 

[JCMC]

I like the way you split right at the wood pile under the shelter and have your wood right next to the boiler. Pretty efficient operation.

gg

Yea it is pretty efficient. I can even split when it is raining without getting to wet. I'm not quite sure if that is a good thing or not.

 

[JCMC]

That looks like a great setup. What is hanging under the roof of the wood shelter?

It is a skate wheel conveyor that I sometimes use to get wood from trailer to splitter.