Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

I hear what you're saying, but San Diego, California has about the most perfect weather I've ever been in, its pretty much exactly the same everyday all year long. Just 70's and 80's with a cool ocean breeze and it honestly never rains, so there is no standing water, which means no mosquitos ever, not many insects really. They do have ants tho. (& uncles too!) Now could I live there, no not my cup of tea, but I can easily see why people do. My Grandparents lived there. Grandad got up at 4am 6 days a week, 3 to go golfing, 3 to go fishing, Sunday he slept in.

Politics are WAY worse than mosquitos! I can deal with mosquitos but not with idiots.. no matter the weather!

 

[Oldpath05]

100 years ago every house had a little building out back. I thought that we had progressed past those days.

I understand what you're saying about the mess outside, but it's much nicer to not freeze your tail off every time that the wood fire needs stoking.

I often wondered that to, it's so nice just to go own cellar to put wood in stove as appose to going outside in rainy, snowy, zero degree weather, but some dont mine it.

 

[Jstpssng]

I often wondered that to, it's so nice just to go own cellar to put wood in stove as appose to going outside in rainy, snowy, zero degree weather, but some dont mine it.

Perhaps that's the only time that they go outside? When I get in at night that's where I want to stay. Those outdoor boilers also seem to use a lot more wood.

 

[Oldpath05]

I find it interesting that people will down hill ski in 0* weather, they will snow mobile in 0* weather, they go ice fishing in 0* weather, but don't go out on your tractor, you have to be crazy if you do that!! lol

SR

Let me help you with that, 0 degree skiing requires being dress like a mommy with frequent stops in the sky shack to thaw out. Snowmobilers are dressed the same way, the ones with common sense dont go out at all. Ice fisherman have a ice shack to stay warm in, eat hot dogs, drink root beer, tell fish stories and brag how great their tractor is.........

Fortunately I have a enough common sense not to go in the woods when in the single numbers unless I absolutely need to, but a tractor with cab and heater would reverse that highly educated advice, your welcome........

 

[Jstpssng]

I've known woodcutters who don't work in extreme temps because they feel that breakdowns are more common.

 

[Oldpath05]

Had to buy a new group 26R battery for my tractor yesterday. I probably should have tried to find a slightly larger group size that would still fit, but oh well. She didn't want to crank well at anything under 15 degrees or so.

OldPath, I can think of several good reasons to start a tractor in the single digits, but the main one around here lately is to plow the driveway. As long as it ain't too windy, who cares what the temperature number is. Just bundle up and cover your face if you really have to. -13f this morning, I could sure feel that when gathering firewood from the screen porch in my PJs to stoke the woodstove.

So can I but can you say this>>>>>>("I needed to go out to my back woods today, so I went out this morning to start my loader tractor, it was +7* F out,")

I cant remember the last time I plowed snow in the single numbers if ever, but that is a need. The coldest snow I had to plow is in the teens and thats rare, usually in the 20s, the snow I hate to plow is the ones that change to sleet or rain in the 30s, I'd rather plow in single numbers.
Right now I'm glad I'm not in Texas...........

 

[Oldpath05]

I've known woodcutters who don't work in extreme temps because they feel that breakdowns are more common.

And when that happens at 7* and something has to fixed with bare hands, then you'll realize quick how cold 7* is, but a tractor with heater makes it much easier providing the diesel fuel didn't gel...........

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I use to snowmobile 20 miles in, to my cabin in the mountains at -15* F, also I have friends/family that go out fishing in 0* F, with no ice shack... I've never liked skiing even though I've tried it, but I see how this works. "IF" YOU don't like something or do something, then everyone who does, has no common sense and is crazy... OK, I got it! lol

BTW, I also flew out, was dropped off and camped in a tent "without heat", hunting in 0* F sometimes even colder than that, many times for a couple weeks at a stretch.....by myself! NO big deal at all... I shot a lot of deer that way,

It was a very good way to put in a winters supply of meat in my freezer, and I enjoyed it!

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

I hear what you're saying, but San Diego, California has about the most perfect weather I've ever been in, its pretty much exactly the same everyday all year long. Just 70's and 80's with a cool ocean breeze and it honestly never rains, so there is no standing water, which means no mosquitos ever, not many insects really. They do have ants tho. (& uncles too!) Now could I live there, no not my cup of tea, but I can easily see why people do. My Grandparents lived there. Grandad got up at 4am 6 days a week, 3 to go golfing, 3 to go fishing, Sunday he slept in.

I heard that, but it's the shaking without warning that makes me nervous..........
"It Never Rains In Southern California" w/Lyrics- Albert Hammond - YouTube

 

[hunt4570]

Let me help you with that, 0 degree skiing requires being dress like a mommy with frequent stops in the sky shack to thaw out. Snowmobilers are dressed the same way, the ones with common sense dont go out at all. Ice fisherman have a ice shack to stay warm in, eat hot dogs, drink root beer, tell fish stories and brag how great their tractor is.........

Fortunately I have a enough common sense not to go in the woods when in the single numbers unless I absolutely need to, but a tractor with cab and heater would reverse that highly educated advice, your welcome........

Dress like mommy you say?? Hmmm... brings all sorts of visions in my head... but none I would wear skiing!!!:laughing: