Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

I use my woods for heat. And each tree heats me 4 times, Cutting it, splitting it, stacking it, and burning it. Most of what I have is red/black oak, so works for burning, but there isn't much of a market here for it as boards. The window is tight also, needs at least a year or 2 to dry, but seems to start to rot shortly thereafter. I'd have more of a reason to buy a mill if it was white oak. I have to find a local mill for all my newly fallen pines.

 

[Jstpssng]

I use my woods for a lot of things... hobby income to help pay for my logging winch and saws, firewood, hunting, a place for the dog to go where I don't need to clean up after him. I may not make a lot of money but I enjoy doing it and as others have pointed out, my woodlot benefits from it. I sold about 200 cords of wood from it the first couple of years that I owned it plus what I burned; grossing enough to pay for the land. In the past couple of years I've been putting 1 acre patch cuts in aspen to enhance the grouse population, while producing about 32 cords of wood for the OSB mill. That earned me about $2800 after trucking, which paid for my logging winch. There's no way that I could burn that much wood, and poplar makes poor firewood anyways. Besides, I can't stand the smell. Now I know why I don't like the smell of OSB; it's made from poplar.

 

[Loaderman22]

I don't have many poplar here, they sort of reached their max size/ht and started dying off. Maybe the oaks block too much light, so now I am thinning the oaks. My hope is to get maples, and white oaks for the majority someday. Maybe the next generation can benefit.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Some of todays haul

 

[Yogi05]

Got back to my mill today for a bit. Been busy with other stuff and closing out my employment.
Managed to cut 4 6x6 then ran out of logs. I was ready to cut more trees, but......
I have three logs that are about 12" diameter that I can not quite get 2 6x6 out of so I set those aside.
If I end up with this mill I have other plans for those.
That new Champion brand chainsaw I bought 2 weeks ago wouldn't start (Dang machinery). Pulled my elbow
out trying to start it. No go.
Had other chores to do so went with that.
Called the store when I got home and there is a 2 year, direct replacement warranty on that saw. Helpful lady
too. Without being asked I heard her tell someone to go put hands on the 1 saw they had left in stock and bring it
to customer service.
She took my name, asked when I might be coming in for it, and put my name on it.
Great service considering it's a box store chain that is not known for great service.
I'll pick it up tomorrow.
In the meantime I made the parts I needed (no longer available exhaust studs) for my broken Homelite saw and it fired up.
No idea how long it will last so we'll see if I can get some trees cut down tomorrow.
I'm out of a job as of next Thursday so I'm going to be a full time lumberjack/sawyer until I get my retaining wall stock, then
I become a landscaper.
After that I want a government job but that's highly unlikely
(I write all this as if someone is actually interested. LOL )

 

[Yogi05]

I've been using this for my wood, it says its good for in ground contact and for docks and piers and stuff/30 years. The longest I've had anything coated with it is about 3 years so far so I guess we'll see. Got it on line from Home depot for about $100 per 5 gal shipped to my house.

Looks like this exact product might be a problem to get in Canada. Not done looking yet.
Curious. Does it stay that green tint it has on the can? Or does it take a natural look after drying.
I do see stuff called copper coat but it's a different brand and all I've seen so far is gallon containers.

 

[hunt4570]

Looks like this exact product might be a problem to get in Canada. Not done looking yet.
Curious. Does it stay that green tint it has on the can? Or does it take a natural look after drying.
I do see stuff called copper coat but it's a different brand and all I've seen so far is gallon containers.

It actually goes on blue and turns green...

 

[Skeans1]

 

[BackRoad]

Makes total sense Mr. Gordon. That BF scale is magic! Thank you.

Suspect you don't have 30 minutes invested in getting it ready for the mill to earn that $60 bucks...so not counting equipment and gas costs, that's $120 per hour!

(And I know that's not the reality. Some things are not about the money...)

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. Skeans, in that first picture (Image 495)...I can see a huge Tyrannosaurus Rex coming up behind that harvester!

The landscape looks almost tropical...maybe it's the big ferns, the underbrush and the tall trees with no low limbs.

Great setting for a dinosaur movie!