Billrog
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Taking logs to the mill
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Nice...very nice. 
jyoutz
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Nice logs. Oak?
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Billrog
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Cedar 30" at the butt. Never measured the length but it was a tall tree. Got enough lumber out of it to fill an order of 6x6,2x6, 4x4's & 1x6.
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Nice. Hard to see the species from the photo. Now I see you’re from BC.
Lucky to find 16-18 butts around here. Any that you do find usually has barbed wire buried in it. I would much prefer to build my outdoor stuff with cedar instead of this “new” pressure treated stuff.
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Bill,
Looks like a nice trailer & tractor set up for hauling logs from the forest!
Just curious, how do get the logs into the trailer - are you using a winch?
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I unhook the trailer and load with the tractor. I had a regular set of forks yrs. ago but soon found that's a good way to take front seals and bearings out on small tractors by over loading. So I made of 16" detachable forks. You can see in the pick I'm carrying a log in front of my bucket as well.
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Yes I see what you mean - for the same reason I ended up dragging whole bunch of logs behind my tractor last fall by using a short logging chain.
These logs were not nearly as big as in your photo, but some were very long & heavy nevertheless.
Hybrid Poplars, loaded with water:
It was an experiment, but I will never again plant these species!
These logs were not nearly as big as in your photo, but some were very long & heavy nevertheless.
Hybrid Poplars, loaded with water:
It was an experiment, but I will never again plant these species!
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No poplar on my property but some large cottonwood they are heavy and full of water as well.
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It’s not like the photos are close up.
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Nice!
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Definitely a cedar species. The bark is definitive.
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I have a Fransgard winch ( borrowed picture ) I have it on the back of my tractor 90% of the time , it is very useful not for only skidding logs but getting vehicles out of a ditch etc or even getting the tractor itself unstuck.
Plus it is a great counter weight with my 4 in 1 bucket on my tractor.
Plus it is a great counter weight with my 4 in 1 bucket on my tractor.
