Tractors and wood! Show your pics

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The main reason my OCD forces me to stack the wood in two rows in my IBC totes is:
1) critters. In a haphazard pile, they have so much protected nooks and crannies to build a stellar little nest. With two even rows, there is a 4-5" air gap down the middle between them that isn't so safe for nesting
2) wood drying. Usually I am splitting wood rounds that still need to dry out and season. By stacking them with the aforementioned air gap between the rows, I suspect they dry better. Especially if left out in the weather and getting rained on, then drying out faster afterwards.
and yeah 3) you fit more wood in the tote overall.
but also 4) easier to grab out a whole arm load when unloading. It saves time overall to stack the wood in two neater rows up front.

All that straight wood just amazes me; I get the occasional 6'-ish length of somewhat straight wood from my scrub oaks, lots of bends and elbows.
I do occasionally cut some pine but most of that is really narrow; the big pines I leave be.

 

[BnRidge]

impressive but for me this is much more impressive... I remember asking as a kid to my grandfather how is this possible and he told me they would start with lighter load and slowly increase it until the tracks (ruts) where made and these would become slippery and icy, they would help the horse off the start with logs as levers and once they get going you just don't stop.
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I believe they would daily douse the ruts to make them icier

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[CalG]

Got a couple of logs out of the bush for a sawmill shelter I plan on building. They are from one tree and each one is 30' long. The bottom section is 16" at the but and 12" at the top. I learned that peeling logs is a young mans job. This old man took most of a day peeling one log. I had to take a lot of breaks and sure feel it in my arms and shoulders today. Still got one more to go. Oh boy!View attachment 1606289View attachment 1606290View attachment 1606291

I peeled a half dozen 16 foot hemlock logs last week. I used a long handled "edger". As I have for the past 30 years. I haven't come across a proper spud.

I'm still aching in the upper body. 72 years old is too late in life to be peeling logs. But I just added four new ones to the pile ;-)

 

[CalG]

I just had a dying Hemlock dropped by professionals. It was dying from the top down, about 25’. Chipped and buck up the only thing I did was use the chainsaw to 1/4 the rounds, for ease of handling! A good start for next years heating!

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I've got a pair of 100 footers dying out front. No place safe to drop 'em, power lines going toward the lean.
The tree service that said they would take the tops off seems to be standing me up. So much for a handshake.

 

[CalG]

Worked on the pile after work last night and today. Finished the cutting and have 5 totes filled. One elm and the rest ash

I've heard that elm is miserable to split, and then slivers when dry.
True?

 

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I've got a pair of 100 footers dying out front. No place safe to drop 'em, power lines going toward the lean.
The tree service that said they would take the tops off seems to be standing me up. So much for a handshake.

Here I was able to call the power company because it was remotely possible that a tree branch could've partially broken and swung into the lines (said branch was well away from the line and a complete break would've dropped it safely, but if it broke and hinged) and they cut the tree down. Nice tree service I'd called for a bid said $3k to take the tree but that I should tell the power company first and see if they'll do it free.

If you've got a dying tree leaning towards the power line... my power co would jump on that. About the only good thing I can say about them, they deserve to be nationalized with no proceeds to the shareholders who've profited off of a crookedly run company for decades (and the only reason they're cutting trees now is that they've literally burned multiple towns and small cities to the ground killing many people in the process, because they have prioritized profits over maintenance of literal hundred year old power towers).

 

[Eagle1]

I've heard that elm is miserable to split, and then slivers when dry.
True?

True... some are twisted to no end. You'll find some good sections in a big tree but anywhere near a knot it can get ugly.

 

[CalG]

Here I was able to call the power company because it was remotely possible that a tree branch could've partially broken and swung into the lines (said branch was well away from the line and a complete break would've dropped it safely, but if it broke and hinged) and they cut the tree down. Nice tree service I'd called for a bid said $3k to take the tree but that I should tell the power company first and see if they'll do it free.

If you've got a dying tree leaning towards the power line... my power co would jump on that. About the only good thing I can say about them, they deserve to be nationalized with no proceeds to the shareholders who've profited off of a crookedly run company for decades (and the only reason they're cutting trees now is that they've literally burned multiple towns and small cities to the ground killing many people in the process, because they have prioritized profits over maintenance of literal hundred year old power towers).

Yes, My youngest son had a tree blocked down by the power company as "Preventive action".

Here in Vermont, if the PowCo went on an extensive preventive program, it would put them out of business, and my trees would be on the "some day" list. ;-)

Let me add, my house looses power whenever the rain falls and the wind blows. ;-)

 

[Eagle1]

I've got a pair of 100 footers dying out front. No place safe to drop 'em, power lines going toward the lean.
The tree service that said they would take the tops off seems to be standing me up. So much for a handshake.

Power co just took down a 40" diameter pine that showed signs of decay after 60 years of trimming the line side. Never would hit the line but crush a building or 2. They brought it down and I got the mess. Fair trade in my book

 

[MJZ]

I've heard that elm is miserable to split, and then slivers when dry.
True?

Elm is super stringy. Just doesn't separate. I use a splitter and then a short handled ax to finish. It doesn't pit off a lot of btus but, it's wood, and when dry burns.