Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Molalla1]

And only $46,000!

I know right . . . . .

 

[bcjmmac]

Not in same league as many posters. Next year’s wood cut & stacked. Year after piled. Approx 5 cord ready for next year. Mainly maple, birch & poplar.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Not in same league as many posters. Next year’s wood cut & stacked. Year after piled. Approx 5 cord ready for next year. Mainly maple, birch & poplar.
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Wow - That is what I call excellent wood utilization. I like your pics. They say a lot. One thing about the Firewood League - there are no rules. Burn what you have and work it up in any old way you please.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

Plus the last time I knew they had a 44 month backlog!

And only $46,000!

 

[Jstpssng]

I really enjoyed the good weather and perfect conditions while cutting some fir this week. We didn't get any sun and it spat snow all the time but it was in the 20's with no wind. Your probably sick of my fir pictures but this one is the second biggest, board foot wise, that I have ever cut here. So I needed a pic. It was 23" at the butt and 260 BF. I can hear the laughter It would have been more and number one but the top was dead ended in an ash canopy so it wasn't that tall. It had the typical 5' of butt rot.

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While I had the camera out I mounted it on the ROPS and made a video of making up a hitch, this tree and another smaller one (70 BF), and skidding them out to the landing. I'm cutting off of a new trail that I scuffed out last fall. On the skid out there are 3 sharp turns so I am keeping my wood lengths short. These are 26' to make a couple 12' saw logs. I had a bit of bad luck. When the cable releases from a snatch block the cable goes slack as it falls. This momentarily removes the locking pressure on the chokers. That little tree got caught in the cable at just the right instant to rake the loose chokers free. I saw the tree and knew it was a goner. I thought about cutting it but I didn't..... Took me 4 extra minutes to patch up the problem it caused.

The video is about 20 minutes long. Not fast paced and exciting but slow like woods work and me. You'll be able to tell from the way I walk one way vs the other that the tractor is parked on a hill with the camera facing down.

gg

That's a nice looking fir. I'm having some cut which is less than half that size and most of it is junk, going to biomass for electricity.

 

[hunt4570]

Plus the last time I knew they had a 44 month backlog!

Its a little over ten times what I paid for my little mill...

 

[Jstpssng]

Its a little over ten times what I paid for my little mill...

Ditto here, and I bought 5 extra blades.

 

[hunt4570]

Ditto here, and I bought 5 extra blades.

I did the same.. and probably 30-35 more after that! I have a garage full of dull blades but a sharpener and setter will cost $1500-$2500 and I just cant justify the expense. No sharpening service that I can find close by, and to ship them out to a sharpener and back isn't much if any cheaper than buying new ones.

 

[Williy]

Hay for $900 you can have a saw setter and
blade sharpener blade setter $85

https://www.google.com/search?q=band+saw+blade+sharpeners+for+sale&oq=band+saw+blade+sharp&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j0i457i512j69i57j0i512l5&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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willy

 

[Jstpssng]

Yes, they have some good information there from time to time. I tried to join several years ago but had to write an essay about why I wanted to join, then never heard from them again. I haven't returned since.

Hay for $900 you can have a saw setter and
blade sharpener blade setter $85

https://www.google.com/search?q=band+saw+blade+sharpeners+for+sale&oq=band+saw+blade+sharp&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j0i457i512j69i57j0i512l5&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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willy

 

[fruitcakesa]

Hay for $900 you can have a saw setter and
blade sharpener blade setter $85

https://www.google.com/search?q=band+saw+blade+sharpeners+for+sale&oq=band+saw+blade+sharp&aqs=chrome.3.0i512j0i457i512j69i57j0i512l5&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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willy

I did join and there was no entrance exam, just your basic personal info.
It is an informative site that runs the gamut of forestry topics and then some.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Great video Gordon, brought back a bunch of memories for me from years ago back on the farm and pulp wood logging! Thanks and stay safe, course it sure looks as if you know exactly what you're doing.

Thank you !!

 

[arrow]

My take on it is based on my very limited knowledge of physics and HVAC. Winter in the Northeast are our driest time of the year, yes we can get 3' of wet snow, but the relative humidity is very low. Think dry tundra, is really a winter desert.. Now if the temp gets too cold, like in February, the moisture in the log freezes, and stays put. I know wind will dry out the ground very fast, (learned that working at a golf course when much younger) so it would do the same to split wood. I also figure the smaller the pieces, the more surface area overall, the faster it will dry. But I also think that makes it burn faster, I prefer some larger logs for the over nights. John Mc explained it quite well, thank you.

I recall reading something in The Morther Earth News in the early 80's as it pertains to splits. With the testing they did with the same species (I forget which), they calculated that the most efficient burns were to be had with 6" splits.
Good for drying and good for lasting burns.
Ever since, that's what I've attempted to do.
Seems to work.

 

[arrow]

I really enjoyed the good weather and perfect conditions while cutting some fir this week. We didn't get any sun and it spat snow all the time but it was in the 20's with no wind. Your probably sick of my fir pictures but this one is the second biggest, board foot wise, that I have ever cut here. So I needed a pic. It was 23" at the butt and 260 BF. I can hear the laughter It would have been more and number one but the top was dead ended in an ash canopy so it wasn't that tall. It had the typical 5' of butt rot.

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While I had the camera out I mounted it on the ROPS and made a video of making up a hitch, this tree and another smaller one (70 BF), and skidding them out to the landing. I'm cutting off of a new trail that I scuffed out last fall. On the skid out there are 3 sharp turns so I am keeping my wood lengths short. These are 26' to make a couple 12' saw logs. I had a bit of bad luck. When the cable releases from a snatch block the cable goes slack as it falls. This momentarily removes the locking pressure on the chokers. That little tree got caught in the cable at just the right instant to rake the loose chokers free. I saw the tree and knew it was a goner. I thought about cutting it but I didn't..... Took me 4 extra minutes to patch up the problem it caused.

The video is about 20 minutes long. Not fast paced and exciting but slow like woods work and me. You'll be able to tell from the way I walk one way vs the other that the tractor is parked on a hill with the camera facing down.

gg

Good hitch Gordon for your machine.

 

[Jstpssng]

I did join and there was no entrance exam, just your basic personal info.
It is an informative site that runs the gamut of forestry topics and then some.

When I tried you had to explain why you wanted to join. There were a couple other things which were also not just name rank and serial number. It’s been a few years, I don’t remember everything. It was involved enough, however, that I was a bit peeved they didn’t have the courtesy to at least say no, so I haven’t been back.

 

[two_bit_score]

When I tried you had to explain why you wanted to join. There were a couple other things which were also not just name rank and serial number. It’s been a few years, I don’t remember everything. It was involved enough, however, that I was a bit peeved they didn’t have the courtesy to at least say no, so I haven’t been back.

The acceptance letter might have gone to your “junk mail”.

 

[Hoobie]

Not in same league as many posters. Next year’s wood cut & stacked. Year after piled. Approx 5 cord ready for next year. Mainly maple, birch & poplar.
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Looks great. I cut maple and beech for myself and to sell to a few neighbours. But a lot of what I burn is poplar, birch and old spruce from old pastures I am slowly clearing on the old farm. They grew up years ago and I am working away at them each year. Nothing wrong with burning this stuff.
I also have a neighbour who burns this stuff so I dump it off in his yard in lengths like yours.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Good hitch Gordon for your machine.

Good thing I don't have a boss worried about making the daily quota though.

On the other hand if I worked fast someone might want to hire me.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

I recall reading something in The Morther Earth News in the early 80's as it pertains to splits. With the testing they did with the same species (I forget which), they calculated that the most efficient burns were to be had with 6" splits.
Good for drying and good for lasting burns.
Ever since, that's what I've attempted to do.
Seems to work.

So is that a 6" diameter round split once or 6" across a split side to make a 6 X 6 square or 6 X 6 X 6 triangle ? Seems big for a stove but maybe you are talking wood furnace ??

gg

 

[bcjmmac]

Looks great. I cut maple and beech for myself and to sell to a few neighbours. But a lot of what I burn is poplar, birch and old spruce from old pastures I am slowly clearing on the old farm. They grew up years ago and I am working away at them each year. Nothing wrong with burning this stuff.
I also have a neighbour who burns this stuff so I dump it off in his yard in lengths like yours.

Poplar is mainly from cleaning up along the property line & in back 40 where beavers are making a mess (some of the poplar they’ve knocked down are over 24” in diameter). I bought the land 12 years ago, had been neglected for ~10 years before that. IAC, poplar is good firewood when dry/instant heat. Use small stuff/limbs, of which there is always a lot, to get fire going & block the rest “large” so it will last a while.
My dad used to say that we could cut 10 cord of maple but if you knocked down one poplar it looked like that was most of the pile!