Tractors and wood! Show your pics

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These pictures are from this afternoon, I don't think I put my felling notch in deep enough and the tree fell a little off from were I was aiming and hung up in a big maple. I ended up hooking my winch cable up to it and using a snatch block and got it down after 20 minutes of "creative winching". It ended up breaking a few limbs off the maple tree , but the maple was girdled years ago when the property was last logged but it is still alive.

A good rule of thumb is to make your notch deep enough so the length of the hinge is at least 80% of the tree's DBH (diameter at breast height). You'll also need to change your aiming point to compensate for side lean compensate for any side lean.
 
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Here is my tractor and my wood :)

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Here is a little video I made on how to use a regular chain as a choker chain.


Nice video.

I have a cabin up in the mountains with some neighbors that need to watch this. I try and help them out and end up doing all the work. A good choker man is not that hard, but they pull it off well.
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,316  
These pictures are from this afternoon, I don't think I put my felling notch in deep enough and the tree fell a little off from were I was aiming and hung up in a big maple. I ended up hooking my winch cable up to it and using a snatch block and got it down after 20 minutes of "creative winching". It ended up breaking a few limbs off the maple tree , but the maple was girdled years ago when the property was last logged but it is still alive.

That's a good looking loggin' tractor you have made there. How is the John Deere holding up?
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,317  
A few oak tree limbs came down in a recent storm. I finally got around to picking them up, using my little workhorse Massey GC1710!!

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Nice video.

I have a cabin up in the mountains with some neighbors that need to watch this. I try and help them out and end up doing all the work. A good choker man is not that hard, but they pull it off well.

Thank you.
 
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Well finally above freezing and not raining. So... here is my tractor and wood pic... yeah it's only the xmas tree going down to the burn pile. Hope this counts! :D

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