Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[CalG]

It was "split wood day" today, we would cut a while on this pile,

There's a BIG advantage having the splits falling off the end of the table grate, you can really get going not having to handle them just to get them on the ground or on a pile.

and then split what we had cut, we cut and split a pretty good amount today,

We still have this pile to do,

and these too,

but that's for another day!

SR

Looks like good stuff!

I've been burning beech these past couple of weeks. I burns with a cold heat.....;-)
Today , tonight through Friday it is warm enough. No fire needed.

 

[shooterdon]

Went to help a neighbor. He had 10 logger cords to move in preparation for a new pole barn. It took 3 hours. He asked me what he owed me…I said nothing.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Looks like good stuff!

I've been burning beech these past couple of weeks. I burns with a cold heat.....;-)
Today , tonight through Friday it is warm enough. No fire needed.

It's pretty good stuff alright, red and white oak.

SR

 

[CalG]

It's pretty good stuff alright, red and white oak.

SR

When speaking of fire wood,

It is easy to tell a book by it's cover! ;-)

 

[BackRoad]

That’s ridiculous 12 sheets for 1,000.$$

$80 a sheet at Menards...local HD doesn't have it in stock.

 

[CalG]

$47 for 5/8 CDX last week.

It adds up.

 

[goeduck]

and these too,

but that's for another day!

SR

I don't do big crotches like that anymore. Too much rassling with them for my liking and then they make the stack all catawampus. I just drop them back into the woods and let nature decompose them. Lots of BTU in those crotches, but every time I turn around, I have another tree in the pasture that needs to be gone. Yesterday it was a 125' old growth down in the mule pasture that needs to be cut up tomorrow and moved. So, I go with the straight grain anymore, everything else goes back in the woods.

 

[WinterDeere]

I don't do big crotches like that anymore. Too much rassling with them for my liking and then they make the stack all catawampus. I just drop them back into the woods and let nature decompose them. Lots of BTU in those crotches, but every time I turn around, I have another tree in the pasture that needs to be gone. Yesterday it was a 125' old growth down in the mule pasture that needs to be cut up tomorrow and moved. So, I go with the straight grain anymore, everything else goes back in the woods.

Same. If you want efficiency in processing, and again in stacking/storage, it's best to only haul the nice straight stuff back to the wood processing area. Leave everything less than perfect in the woods.

That's easy for those of us in areas heavy with high-BTU trees to say, my perspective might be different if demand ever approaches supply, or if I lived in the great plains region.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I don't do big crotches like that anymore. Too much rassling with them for my liking and then they make the stack all catawampus. I just drop them back into the woods and let nature decompose them. Lots of BTU in those crotches, but every time I turn around, I have another tree in the pasture that needs to be gone. Yesterday it was a 125' old growth down in the mule pasture that needs to be cut up tomorrow and moved. So, I go with the straight grain anymore, everything else goes back in the woods.

With the "right" equipment they aren't too bad at all, so there's NO WAY I leave them behind, there's just too much excellent firewood in them.

To be honest, I really don't mind working them into splits, with the splitter that I have.

SR

 

[Eagle1]

With the "right" equipment they aren't too bad at all, so there's NO WAY I leave them behind, there's just too much excellent firewood in them.

To be honest, I really don't mind working them into splits, with the splitter that I have.

SR

I thrive on a challenges and Elm like that will make you earn it at times. I hate when I have to give up on one, but then it goes to the firepit to enjoy outside.