Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[dieselcrawler]

I added some plates with chain notches to my friends box blade, have thought of doing the same to mine... needs a few more scratches before I burn up paint welding on it.

 

[PSEbowhunter]

Using the grapple to set the big oak round into the splitter. It worked well to keep moving that big thing around to split all the way across it.

 

[terryknight]

Using the grapple to set the big oak round into the splitter. It worked well to keep moving that big thing around to split all the way across it. View attachment 460177

is there a reason you didn't noodle that round to make it smaller?

 

[PSEbowhunter]

I had noodled a couple back when I cut it all into rounds. That one got left on the back burner along with some big crotches and other uglies. They had been sitting for a spell and pushed around in the dirt few times so I didn't feel like putting my chain into them.

 

[terryknight]

ah i see

 

[dieselcrawler]

Took care of a 'situation' I didn't mention. On Sunday afternoon, I was planning to drop a damaged but live poplar tree during my time in the woods. I miss-judged the lean, top weight, and likelihood of direction of natural fall... about a 24" tree at the cut line, top blown out, but trunk looks nice, a good 20' to 24' of trunk before forks. I put in a nice notch, a solid 2/3 deep, aimed for a nice fall Zone up the hill. Started my back side cut, and as I was almost in line with my notch, I see the back cut start to shrink. I quickly pulled out the saw, and watched in dismay as it closed up, and this huge tree just sat there, standing on the stump. D@mn. Back to the barn for chains and come-a-long. Got sidetracked, went back this evening.

Choker cable gently put around the poplar up as high as I could reach. Chain from that to another 'junk' tree on the downhill side. Another chain about 1/4 of the way back from the 'junk' tree, perpendicular to the first, to the come-a-long attached to a third tree... and crank it down, hoping I'm out of the fall zone, (LONG chains!) and hoping it just comes down. Nope. Grab the saw, nibble at the notch a bit, and TIMBER! Down it comes... grab the chains, saw, load up, turn on the tractor lights cause it's about dark now... shooo. Glad that's over.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Started my back side cut, and as I was almost in line with my notch, I see the back cut start to shrink. I quickly pulled out the saw, and watched in dismay as it closed up, and this huge tree just sat there, standing on the stump.

That's why they invented "wedges"!!

SR

 

[PhysAssist]

...Grab the saw, nibble at the notch a bit, and TIMBER! Down it comes... grab the chains, saw, load up, turn on the tractor lights cause it's about dark now... shooo. Glad that's over.

Did it go uphill or downhill?

Those are scary, glad you are OK, and that now I know those don't just happen to me.
Thomas

 

[dieselcrawler]

It fell downhill, as I realized it was inclined to come that way, I pulled it that way with the chains. It did go a slightly different direction than I thought it would, but that could be due to the 'hinge' and how I nibbled out the last stands of wood unevenly, something I didn't know until it was on the ground.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

2/3 is one heck of a face cut!