Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Hilbilly · Feb 16, 2022

Williy said:
NICE! You can drop the truck and wood at
my place

willy

You forgot the tractor. Might as well get the works, lol.

Loaderman22 · Feb 16, 2022

I have used a backpack leaf blower to clear off loose powdery snow, works well, but it has to be that cold, dry powder, if its a little warm and wet, its not going anywhere.

ning · Feb 16, 2022

Jstpssng said:
Wow! That's one lucky guy. I wonder how he would have fared with a single piece hard hat like what most of us wear.
I was hoping he didn't plan to burn those trees for firewood...
That Lewis winch is nice, I'd like to have one sometimes. I still prefer my Uniforest and tractor though.

Looks to me that that shard of wood hit just perfectly to go into the vent. If it had been a smooth hardhat without a vent, my guess is that it would've deflected off of the helmet and not stuck into it... though it may've stuck into his shoulder instead.

re firewood - He moved the logs to his driveway for a logger to pick up - lumber, not firewood.

Jstpssng · Feb 16, 2022

ning said:
re firewood - He moved the logs to his driveway for a logger to pick up - lumber, not firewood.

I realized that, but I can see that it was a bit vague. I knew what I meant though!

Rustyiron · Feb 16, 2022

These are from December, I forgot about this long running thread.

the top ^^ to this log below

A buddy's rig on the left. I got them out to the trail with my tractor on the right.
This was 12/9/21 and the first snow that stuck. I was gathering hemlock logs for siding for my sawmill building. My plans were to pick away at it this winter moving the mill into the building, it's under roof. That just didn't happen.

Gordon Gould · Feb 17, 2022

Some great pictures Eric. You have some good Hemlock. Takes a real woodsman to limb out the top like that. I assume all the framing for your saw mill building came out of your woods and off your mill ??? Very nice work.

gg

Williy · Feb 17, 2022

HAY! Your building in the wrong place should
be in my back yard

willy

Rustyiron · Feb 17, 2022

Gordon that was my buddy up on the tree

. I was the lazy guy taking the picture.
As for the lumber, a friend gave me about 35 8x8 x mostly 24' long spruce timbers. They were for a dream of his father's, sitting stickered on concrete in a building for 10 years or so and they needed the space we horse traded a days labor and he delivered them to my place. I did need to resaw the twist out of them. I bought the 2x4's for the purlins and wall girts to save time.
I'm building this by myself and was hoping to finish it before snow... at least I got it under roof.

Here's the free posts and the metal bar joists that I bought about 8-10 years ago. 38' long, 11 pieces for $400!
These blocks are my inexpensive "footings".

20 2x2x6 concrete blocks, delivered for $1240 iirc. They were kinda on sale during the time when the roads were posted because they had a yard full and come spring they'd be making more and also needed the space. Fortunately I'm on a state road and it can't be "posted".
For those that don't know what I'm saying... over the winter the roads freeze up (because they were never built properly years ago) and when the frost is coming "out" in the early spring heavy trucks over a certain weight are restricted because the sub surface is almost mud like and the asphalt will crumble under the load.
April 7 was the delivery date.

The blocks were put on a 12"-16" layer of crushed stone, then I formed up an additional 12" concrete that is above grade. I made those brackets that got "wet dipped" into the concrete.