Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

No moose either, I'm quite sure a tractor was used somewhere to get them stack bundles of lumber. And thats one reason I dont care for sawing lumber anymore, to much of heavy handling, I thought it was going to be fun 10 years ago, but I have more fun winching out logs in snow, you know that's that pretty white stuff on the ground that some us lucky people get couple months out of the year............

LUCKY???? HAHAHA!!

 

[hunt4570]

I no longer have a dog but sounds to me like that one had a great time, better then being on a chain all day...........

I've never put a chain on a dog.. mostly they just go where they want..

I no longer have a dog either.. really miss them, and not...

 

[Gordon Gould]

It was a pretty ride in this morning.



I use the Tongue & Groove cut a lot. It is good for trees that you want to tip over against the lean but will pinch your saw before you have room for a wedge if you use a standard back cut. In other words smaller diameter trees. This one is about 13".



If your not familiar with it this is how it goes.



1 - Make a standard notch
2 - Lay your saw on the flat (bottom) of the notch and bore straight back all the way thru the center of the tree exiting in the back.
3 - Insert and tighten the wedge in the slot formed in the back of the tree.
4 & 5 - Make your back cut in two steps. One on each side of the tree. The idea is to make normal a hinge and leave a solid section of wood over the wedge. I prefer cutting in from the back with the tip just over lapping the wedge cut and stopping at the hinge vs the diagram which runs the tip along the hinge stopping at the wedge. See little diagram to the right. Either works.
6 - drive in wedge to tip tree over.

gg

 

[John_Mc]

I use that a fair amount myself on smaller back leaners. I usually carry 12" wedges with me, so it's nice to be able to use them on smaller trees where they would bottom out without this technique. I'm glad I was shown it, since I don't know how long I would have been mucking about before I figured it out on my own.

 

[Hoobie]

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I like trailer logging so be sure to post some more pictures when you get a chance.

The firewood picture is from my previous post.
I made this trailer years ago or should say had it made. It started out as another project and somehow changed as it went so there is no great design thought here. But it works for me. Before I bought the Kubota with loader I was using the old Ford 641 with no fel. The right posts are hinged to lie down as in the picture. Originally I mounted a boat hand winch and parbuckled logs on. Later I added an electric winch with a deep cycle battery as in the other picture. Worked pretty good. Could load pretty large logs the old fashioned way as they say. Now I use the fel so goes much faster. The drop posts are useful for loading and unloading. Should be longer with better undercarriage but like I said it sort of evolved into this.
I aim for 12 foot logs on average but can take some 14feet. 3500 pound axel rating. With trailer loaded and forks full of limbs and pieces I can move best part of a cord of hardwood.

 

[Gordon Gould]

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The firewood picture is from my previous post.
I made this trailer years ago or should say had it made. It started out as another project and somehow changed as it went so there is no great design thought here. But it works for me. Before I bought the Kubota with loader I was using the old Ford 641 with no fel. The right posts are hinged to lie down as in the picture. Originally I mounted a boat hand winch and parbuckled logs on. Later I added an electric winch with a deep cycle battery as in the other picture. Worked pretty good. Could load pretty large logs the old fashioned way as they say. Now I use the fel so goes much faster. The drop posts are useful for loading and unloading. Should be longer with better undercarriage but like I said it sort of evolved into this.
I aim for 12 foot logs on average but can take some 14feet. 3500 pound axel rating. With trailer loaded and forks full of limbs and pieces I can move best part of a cord of hardwood.

That's a nice little trailer. What do you do with the softwood logs Hoobie ? If you were in the east I would call them spruce but I don't know western species that well. Looks like you have plenty of hardwood around for your fire wood. You are in a pretty area. I've never been to BC.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

It's been spitting snow pretty steady for what seems like a week. Today was finally a beautiful sunny January day. It's not going to last and the weather for the next three days sounds like it will be more interesting than it needs to be. Forecasts on how much icing we will get after the 1" to 2" of rain ranges from none to 3/4". But today was good.



gg

 

[Oldpath05]

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The firewood picture is from my previous post.
I made this trailer years ago or should say had it made. It started out as another project and somehow changed as it went so there is no great design thought here. But it works for me. Before I bought the Kubota with loader I was using the old Ford 641 with no fel. The right posts are hinged to lie down as in the picture. Originally I mounted a boat hand winch and parbuckled logs on. Later I added an electric winch with a deep cycle battery as in the other picture. Worked pretty good. Could load pretty large logs the old fashioned way as they say. Now I use the fel so goes much faster. The drop posts are useful for loading and unloading. Should be longer with better undercarriage but like I said it sort of evolved into this.
I aim for 12 foot logs on average but can take some 14feet. 3500 pound axel rating. With trailer loaded and forks full of limbs and pieces I can move best part of a cord of hardwood.

Nice pictures, I use to a lot of parbuckling to before I got a tractor but it just dont beat a FEL.
Canada east of ME must be different then Canada west of ME, 25 years ago me and neighbor went to Canada west of ME. He heard about tandem trailers up there being made for ATVs and wanted one, so when got up there, over there all we saw was tandem trailers in all sizes no single wheel trailers anywhere. Then we stopped into this place that was making them and he bought one, US dollar was strong back then so he got a good deal.
So when we brought it back I took some measurements and built one with some custom improvements. I used it mostly for 4' wood but I did some parbuckling on it to, ATVs can haul logs easier on wheels..... Heres a couple picture taken 25 years ago.

 

[Oldpath05]

It's been spitting snow pretty steady for what seems like a week. Today was finally a beautiful sunny January day. It's not going to last and the weather for the next three days sounds like it will be more interesting than it needs to be. Forecasts on how much icing we will get after the 1" to 2" of rain ranges from none to 3/4". But today was good.

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gg

I thought today was a great day for firewood, if you was burning it. You ever wish you had a cab on your tractor with heater, on a day like this?

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
That was a nice looking trailer. You may have answered this before, but do you still have it?