Are you kidding, it's in the low 60s here and I'm sitting here on the chilly side with heavy shirt on, good thing it's almost bed time I'll throw extra blanket on tonight.
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Are you kidding, it's in the low 60s here and I'm sitting here on the chilly side with heavy shirt on, good thing it's almost bed time I'll throw extra blanket on tonight.
hunt4570
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Yep they are on the steep side, kind of a hybrid between stairs and a ladder, did not want the run to long or a landing in the middle of the run... it is just a deer stand after all.
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Yes. Most of the decent wood around her has been clear cut. Most wood here now I am thinking will be below twelve inches. I do prefer to haul it 4 feet from the woods or longer. Just to get it cut and back to a landing. Although when younger we mostly junk it up in the woods. If I have it stacked always like in the previous picture I was figuring for myself I could just keep moving the tractor along the pile and lift it to the table myself and just let it drop. Every ten minutes moving another 6 feet etc. Come by later to throw it in the back of the truck. Hard to beat a chainsaw as when I stack it flush and low height I can saw through the depth of the bar to make a few rounds simultaneously. But I place the pile on skids and so as It is getting cut threw it it moves and crumbles under foot asI have to walk along the top of the pile. I can saw up piles pretty fast vs junking a piece here and there but you are bent over a lot and its moving underfoot. I pile it low also to prevent too much sawdust from gathering on the bottom tear. Just wondered if a cordwood saw like balfors wouldn’t make the job more comfortable. Though I know Idl have to pick up every four foot piece instead of sawing a few of them at once like I have been doing lately.
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We used to have three people cutting and make a day of it. I would be the one taking it off and throwing it into the KB-5 dumptruck. As he got older my father started to slow down but still was able to keep up. He also used to go help his friend's son put theirs in... Michael is two years younger than me but he quit before my father did.
Toward the end my father found it easier to do it himself, letting the cut pieces drop into a trailer. That allowed him to work it on his own schedule rather than all in one day when we had time to help.
We used to have three people cutting and make a day of it. I would be the one taking it off and throwing it into the KB-5 dumptruck. As he got older my father started to slow down but still was able to keep up. He also used to go help his friend's son put theirs in... Michael is two years younger than me but he quit before my father did.
Toward the end my father found it easier to do it himself, letting the cut pieces drop into a trailer. That allowed him to work it on his own schedule rather than all in one day when we had time to help.
A good sign of no knee pain and feeling 25 again, wher'd you say you got that pool water from...........
For one person yeah I think cord wood saws are slower and not really practical for big wood, but least theres no worry's of getting red-neck copper tunnel.
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I do notice the speed difference in peoples refurbished cordwood saws and the newer ones by Balfour or some other Italian companies. The Vermont seems to have the older style blades. . Whatever type of cutting teeth they have now they seem to zip through much faster. It would be useless in bigger wood. However the issue I have been having here lately is most of the wood is so small. So it is´ easier to junk it up right in the woods or bring it in longer lengths to a landing. If you bring it out longer lengths you get it out to a landing or home faster. But you still need to junk it. Being so small I have been stacking it low and straight on one end. I then mark or guess 15 inches from the end and start cutting. I can cut up piles fairly quick compared to one tiny round at a time like I would be while in the woods. But your standing on a moving pile bent over. When we cut across the river here the birch was much larger so it was more practical to junk it up right there. It would only be assessable by snowmobile. I could get to it easy enough with the j5 but too far and soft to haul a load. I saw a guy sink his skidder there Did not make it the length of the machine.
