Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Gordon Gould · Mar 10, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
Sorry there was to much SC fog rolling up that caused me to do mouth reading so all I saw was the video time and that scared me. After further review at the noted time mention, it was a good straight forward tree height tutorial with doted lines to illustrate a basic technique.

So this afternoon I went down the woods and tried the same-ish thing with my handy dandy 4' stick log measurer, picked the straightest flattest path then flipped the stick back 25 times then I did the math the best I could and came up with 2000' tall pine tree............

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I told my wife you measured a tree and it was 2000' high. She said, "Oh he must have used the Indian method........" She taught 3rd grade and used to like to get the kids out in the woods and have some fun. One exercise was tree height measuring. Stand with your back to the tree and walk a straight line away from it. Every once in a while bend over forward and long back and up between your legs. When you see the top of the tree the height is the distance you have walked. Then she said, " he probably can't bend over as far as a kid or an Indian."

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hunt4570 · Mar 10, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
I told my wife you measured a tree and it was 2000' high. She said, "Oh he must have used the Indian method........" She taught 3rd grade and used to like to get the kids out in the woods and have some fun. One exercise was tree height measuring. Stand with your back to the tree and walk a straight line away from it. Every once in a while bend over forward and long back and up between your legs. When you see the top of the tree the height is the distance you have walked. Then she said, " he probably can't bend over as far as a kid or an Indian."

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How to measure a tree - YouTube

Gordon Gould · Mar 10, 2020

hunt4570 said:
How to measure a tree - YouTube

I guess I should have looked at those videos back in post 2007. Kinda made my post a little flat - like most of them are I guess. But I was pretty impressed with my wife's vast knowledge of wood lore and triganomitry concepts - I never knew.

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hunt4570 · Mar 10, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
I guess I should have looked at those videos back in post 2007. Kinda made my post a little flat - like most of them are I guess. But I was pretty impressed with my wife's vast knowledge of wood lore and triganomitry concepts - I never knew.

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I had never seen either of those methods till OP posted them last week..

Loaderman22 · Mar 10, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
If I had a SS I wouldn't put a winch on it and haul wood in reverse, this is what I do with a SS>>> Dymax Timberwolf Tree Shear Overview + Demo | Skid Steer Solutions - YouTube

That looks like a great time for smaller trees, but I don't think it's gonna help on my 24" diameter red oak trees that outweigh the skidsteer.

Loaderman22 · Mar 10, 2020

Oldpath05 said:
Oh your right I forgot about the flat ground problem I have but it would've come to me after I cut the first tree and tipped it over!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this is what I could use a lot better, dont dare to ask the price though, might have to borrow some from you............
Feller Buncher Tigercat L87C on Steep Terrain - YouTube

I always thought these were amazing, I just hate the clear cutting approach, but the tool is unbelievable.

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hunt4570 · Mar 10, 2020

Loaderman22 said:
I always thought these were amazing, I just hate the clear cutting approach, but the tool is unbelievable.

YouTube

Here they do a lot of "clearcutting", but they treat trees as a crop here. They cut, then they wait a year or two for stuff on the ground to rot, then replant, and 12-15 years down the road they do it all again. Just like a corn crop, it just takes longer to mature!

BrokenTrack · Mar 10, 2020

hunt4570 said:
Here they do a lot of "clearcutting", but they treat trees as a crop here. They cut, then they wait a year or two for stuff on the ground to rot, then replant, and 12-15 years down the road they do it all again. Just like a corn crop, it just takes longer to mature!

For awhile I was burning wood/coal in a pot bellied stove, so I was thinking a great way to get into 100% mechanization for firewood, would to be to get into firewood chunks. I always have saplings that I want cleared back around the edges of fields, so part of that mechanized idea was to make a feller-buncher, and then make a firewood chunker to feed the wood into.

In that way I could use the feller-buncher to cut the saplings and load them onto my trailer. Then later mount the chunker onto my trailer and use the grapple to feed the saplings into the chunker.

I made the feller-buncher, but then realized wood pellets made more sense.

Jstpssng · Mar 10, 2020

Loaderman22 said:
I always thought these were amazing, I just hate the clear cutting approach, but the tool is unbelievable.

YouTube

That's not all that they do with those, it's all about the operator, what the land owner wants, and how much he expects to get out of the harvest.

Oldpath05 · Mar 10, 2020

Loaderman22 said:
I always thought these were amazing, I just hate the clear cutting approach, but the tool is unbelievable.

YouTube

Sometimes with machine tree harvesters one can do a better job at select cutting because of more control on a cut tree placement with much less damage to other trees that should be saved, and they sure take the work out of tree cutting............