Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hiker88]

...or stacking! :laughing:

That is just the long term wood lot. By the time I burn firewood, it has been cut for at least two years. Once in the spring, and once in the fall I top off one half of my wood shed which is located 10 feet outside my walkout basement. One half of the wood shed lasts me pretty close to a year, so I refill one half in the spring and burn it the next winter, and the other half I try to top off in the fall from summer burning. I often can not get through the "summer" half of the wood shed though.

Firewood is usually in here close to a year before it gets burned.

As you can see it is a family affair. We all love working outside together.

From there, my firewood (now seasoned to approximately 8%) or less goes into my state of the art, Froling Turbo 3000 indoor, wood gasification boiler. I use it to heat my home, and domestic hot water year round. I have an 800 gallon storage tank in my basement with close to 200k btu of heating coils inside it. One coil is dedicated to domestic hot water. In the summer, I burn approximately 100 pounds of wood (in one, weekly burn) to produce all of our hot water needs for the week. Most winter days I burn approximately 80-100 bounds a day. In the last week or so, I have been pushing close to 160-180 pounds a day. It is -14 outside today, but my house is 72.

I have not bought oil for my oil furnace since 2011.

Here is a pic of my wood boiler.


I did say don't get me started...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Above I posted picts of loading and milling this blk. cherry log,

and I mentioned that the tree it came from, had three logs in it and here's the next log that tree produced, it's 8' 6" long,

So I got started by opening it up and turning it, to see what I had,

and it didn't disappoint!

and where there were defects, it made for some nice figure!

I ended up with a pretty good tally of 5/4 lumber on this log too!

So, now it's time to go get that third log I mentioned, milled too!

SR

 

[4570Man]

...or stacking! :laughing:

I hate stacking firewood. I’d way rather split it.

 

[ultrarunner]

My Grandfather was a man of few words and not easily impressed...

That said, as a young child I remember the first time I did impress him... and it was stacking wood in the crib on the farm and all these years later I still remember it.

 

[aeblank]

That is just the long term wood lot. By the time I burn firewood, it has been cut for at least two years. Once in the spring, and once in the fall I top off one half of my wood shed which is located 10 feet outside my walkout basement. One half of the wood shed lasts me pretty close to a year, so I refill one half in the spring and burn it the next winter, and the other half I try to top off in the fall from summer burning. I often can not get through the "summer" half of the wood shed though.
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Firewood is usually in here close to a year before it gets burned.

As you can see it is a family affair. We all love working outside together.

From there, my firewood (now seasoned to approximately 8%) or less goes into my state of the art, Froling Turbo 3000 indoor, wood gasification boiler. I use it to heat my home, and domestic hot water year round. I have an 800 gallon storage tank in my basement with close to 200k btu of heating coils inside it. One coil is dedicated to domestic hot water. In the summer, I burn approximately 100 pounds of wood (in one, weekly burn) to produce all of our hot water needs for the week. Most winter days I burn approximately 80-100 bounds a day. In the last week or so, I have been pushing close to 160-180 pounds a day. It is -14 outside today, but my house is 72.

I have not bought oil for my oil furnace since 2011.

Here is a pic of my wood boiler.
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I did say don't get me started...

Sweet. I have a gassification / storage system that is an HS Tarm. I put my storage outside, under ground, so I lose heat that way. It's about 1600 gallons though. No pictures handy, but 3 zones of radiant floor and home-run domestic water makes it look like command central. Works great though.

 

[Rustyiron]

Sweet. I have a gassification / storage system that is an HS Tarm. I put my storage outside, under ground, so I lose heat that way. It's about 1600 gallons though. No pictures handy, but 3 zones of radiant floor and home-run domestic water makes it look like command central. Works great though.

ae, tell me about your underground storage! I too run a gasser but no room for any (conventional) storage. I was thinking about building a vault or getting a septic tank to house the conventional insulated LP tanks just outside of my boiler room.

 

[aeblank]

ae, tell me about your underground storage!.

Where I used to work, there were underground fuel tanks that had to come out. One was 2,000 gal, by my volume calcs. I cut a hatch, put in coils, welded bungs, etc. Made the hatch bolt-able and had a spray foam guy spray it with 6ish inches of foam. Then I buried it outside my basement wall.

Between it and my septic tank, snow doesn't stay there. But, I don't get the residual heat in the summer, since it's my domestic hot water as well.

 

[goeduck]

That is just the long term wood lot. By the time I burn firewood, it has been cut for at least two years. Once in the spring, and once in the fall I top off one half of my wood shed which is located 10 feet outside my walkout basement. One half of the wood shed lasts me pretty close to a year, so I refill one half in the spring and burn it the next winter, and the other half I try to top off in the fall from summer burning. I often can not get through the "summer" half of the wood shed though.

Firewood is usually in here close to a year before it gets burned.

As you can see it is a family affair. We all love working outside together.

From there, my firewood (now seasoned to approximately 8%) or less goes into my state of the art, Froling Turbo 3000 indoor, wood gasification boiler. I use it to heat my home, and domestic hot water year round. I have an 800 gallon storage tank in my basement with close to 200k btu of heating coils inside it. One coil is dedicated to domestic hot water. In the summer, I burn approximately 100 pounds of wood (in one, weekly burn) to produce all of our hot water needs for the week. Most winter days I burn approximately 80-100 bounds a day. In the last week or so, I have been pushing close to 160-180 pounds a day. It is -14 outside today, but my house is 72.

I have not bought oil for my oil furnace since 2011.

Here is a pic of my wood boiler

I did say don't get me started...

Impressive. I am humbled. Very nice.

 

[goeduck]

Above I posted picts of loading and milling this blk. cherry log,

and I mentioned that the tree it came from, had three logs in it and here's the next log that tree produced, it's 8' 6" long,

So I got started by opening it up and turning it, to see what I had,

and it didn't disappoint!


and where there were defects, it made for some nice figure!


I ended up with a pretty good tally of 5/4 lumber on this log too!

So, now it's time to go get that third log I mentioned, milled too!

SR

That wood sure is impressive. Thanks for posting. I sure wish we had your hardwoods out here in the West.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Was wasting time on Web, when I ran across the wood cutter shown at about 2:54 in this compilation: Top 1 Viral Videos of the Year 217 - YouTube
I think I'll stick to the chainsaw...