Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[goeduck]

Wrap around the tree a couple of times and hook back to the chain with a standard chain hook. It would be better if I had an open hook so it pulled tight but I don't. I usually hook to a pin in the drawbar but over the drawbar mounted in the 3 pt as I lift the end of the log with the 3 pt to get some weight on the back of the tractor for traction.

All my long chains have grab hooks on both ends. Then I have short chains of just a few feet with a selection of open/slip hooks on just one end, nothing on the other end. When I need a slip hook, I use the grab hook on a long chain to catch the end of the short chain with a slip hook on it. Saves me from having to have full length comb end chains. Speaking of hook ends, a pitch for Ken’s....

Ken's Bolt on Grab Hooks <<Accessories>>

 

[dragoneggs]

Cut down a black cherry tree. Have a friend coming to see if he wants any of it to have milled. If not it will be firewood.

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You are killing me... no such stuff around here! Firewood talk here is blasphemy.

 

[4570Man]

I’m not seeing the real jewel here. The butt is rotten and needs trimmed off to solid wood. It looks like it makes a bend not far up. It might provide a couple decent boards, but I don’t think the veneer factory is going to be beating on you door. I just cut up a better looking oak for firewood because it had bad wind shake. It would have been worth about $120 if it was clean. Since it was likely the lowest grade it would have brought $16.

 

[arrow]

I log in multiple ways and have a few means in which to do so. Lately it has been with my bulldozer and log trailer.

At first it seemed kind of slow because I seemed to have cut and cut, and while the logs were piling up, it only matters when the logs are piled on the landing and ready for the truck.

It almost seemed I would be ahead time wise if I just cut the trees tree length, dragged them out, and bucked them and on the landing. But after sticking with the log trailer plan of logging; it became apparent that time wise, that is not the case. Because almost all the work is being done in the woods: Fell, limb, and buck; once the logs are loaded on the trailer and hauled to the landing, there is nothing else to do. It just seems slow because so much work has to be done up front before the wood starts to move out of the woods.

The logs are super clean too, and piled nice and neat for my trucker to grab. It is obviously slower than using my skidder, but using my dozer and log trailer consumes a lot less fuel: 5 gallons a day instead of 40! I have a Kubota tractor and winch too, but it has been awhile since I used that in the woods: 1 year go probably.

This is a great set-up. Forwarding was always faster in my mind. The advent of the smaller "woods" trailer with claw opened up some great possibilities. Wish we had a forwarder when I was logging.

 

[motownbrowne]

 

[Creamer]

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That is pretty. How far do you haul it since you have a trailer?

How do you keep the plastic on top of the wood - sacrificial pieces?

 

[NPurdy1112]

I知 not seeing the real jewel here. The butt is rotten and needs trimmed off to solid wood. It looks like it makes a bend not far up. It might provide a couple decent boards, but I don稚 think the veneer factory is going to be beating on you door. I just cut up a better looking oak for firewood because it had bad wind shake. It would have been worth about $120 if it was clean. Since it was likely the lowest grade it would have brought $16. View attachment 537136

You are right. That was the last cut of the day, so I didn't even pay attention to the quality. Think I found another in the first two pictures.

Do you know what the third picture species is?

 

[Rustyiron]

Looks like Locust, I think 2nd on the BTU list. I think only "Hedge" or Osage Orange beats it out.:thumbsup:

 

[motownbrowne]

That is pretty. How far do you haul it since you have a trailer?

How do you keep the plastic on top of the wood - sacrificial pieces?

I'm only headed about 1/4 mile. Maybe a little less. Actually, I just put the plastic over the top and run around it with an arrow staple gun. I throw a couple dozen staples in the chunks of firewood that are in the right places. It's used greenhouse plastic, so when I need the wood I just yank it off. I get a couple uses out of each piece, and that's after 7 years on my hoop house.

 

[4570Man]

You are right. That was the last cut of the day, so I didn't even pay attention to the quality. Think I found another in the first two pictures.

Do you know what the third picture species is?


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Maybe walnut, but the bark looks too course. It matches the google images of black locust, but that doesn’t grow here so I don’t know for sure. The second looks like another cherry that’s a lot better than the rotten one.