Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

I finally got the Frangard forestry winch on the tractor and ready to go. My father bought this a year before he passed and never got a chance to use it. It’s been sitting for 8 years or so. Everything is freed up now and working as it should. If only the ground would either dry out or freeze up......View attachment 585690

When I make ruts from being on soft ground I lower the winch down and drag it over the ground, smooths out pretty good. Most likely your winch now has sentimental value especially everytime you use it.

 

[Oldpath05]

I am still looking for the problem. If the water is too deep to stand in, set some planks across the water and go cut it. If the concern is oil from a chainsaw getting into the water, use a hand saw. The tree is not that big.

I know he needs a better picture, I'm thinking of something with a tractor stuck in the water hole would really help illustrate one of the difficult problems of trying to get a dead tree out on soft ground.

 

[Oldpath05]

The tree laying up the hill next to the wall is a black birch, at least it smells like birch beer when I cut into it. The tree in the water I thought was a white oak, but I could be wrong on that one.

Never heard of black birch, I have plenty of grey, white and yellow birch, I wouldn't know one if I saw it or saw through it.

 

[4570Man]

I was pushing a pile of firewood and got a piece stuck in the bucket. I couldn’t pry it out with a 4 foot stick so I had to pull it out.

 

[Oldpath05]

He/She is EVA Material: EVA Plastic, EVA Polymer & Molded EVA

It's inside your car & a lot of other things.

Gotta and now I know the rest of the story..................

 

[Oldpath05]

I was pushing a pile of firewood and got a piece stuck in the bucket. I couldn’t pry it out 4 foot stick and I had to pull it out.View attachment 585750View attachment 585751

I done that once before to, not as big so was able to hit it with a 4' stick and bang it out, haven't got a rock stuck yet though.

 

[Jstpssng]

Never heard of black birch, I have plenty of grey, white and yellow birch, I wouldn't know one if I saw it or saw through it.

I used to see it down in NH and NY. It has the same branch patterns and leaves as yellow birch but the bark is darker and at a glance is easy to confuse with black cherry. (Another species we don't see up here very often.) It also has the same minty smell as yellow birch when you break a twig or cut it.

 

[goeduck]

I know he needs a better picture, I'm thinking of something with a tractor stuck in the water hole would really help illustrate one of the difficult problems of trying to get a dead tree out on soft ground.

Using the size of the leaves on the ground as a reference, the tree does not look that big to me (24inch) But I guess leaves are bigger there than we have here, even though we have Big Leaf Maple trees.

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Going into the woodshed.

 

[John_Mc]

Never heard of black birch, I have plenty of grey, white and yellow birch, I wouldn't know one if I saw it or saw through it.

The southern tip of Maine is about as far north as it grows (maybe about as far north as Portland?). Once someone point it out to you, it's obvious it's a birch, it just has black bark (though when it gets really old, it developes vertical cracks and does not look as "birchy" anymore. It smells like the old wintergreen flavored gum we had when I was a kid. It makes excellent firewood - significantly higher BTU content than the other birches. Similar BTUs to White Oak.