Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[shooterdon]

It's amazing what those little splitters will do. You guys in Kentucky grow some nice hardwood !!

gg

Good point GG. My buddy used a little 5T gas splitter for years and he heats with wood. He loved using my 16T splitter when his was out of commission. The issue is with knots etc when using the smaller units.

The big issue for me was always the speed of the smaller electric units as I use about 6 cords a year.

 

[robpm]

While talking about splitters I have a Splitfire. It is the best splitter I have ever used in terms of having just a single splitter. If you have 3 people working with it you can split wood twice as fast and it is built like a tank! I share the ownership of the equivalent of this model HYDRAULIC LOG SPLITTER with Hydraulic Log Lifter - Made by Split-Fire. It is much older so a few things are different but it is pretty much the same. We bought it used from a guy who had not used it a whole lot. We bought the log lift for it and had a guy do the minor welding that needed to be done with it. The log lift is fantastic because use can use it as a table as well. Canadian Split-Fire Log Splitter Demonstration - YouTube
SPLIT-FIRE 2265 | Gas Powered Log Splitter - YouTube

 

[Molalla1]

Bacon isn't bad, just not a lot of fatty belly meat on wild pigs, they run around too much unlike heir domestic cousins. Hams on the other hand are fantastic, they are the main reason I like the pigs!

Bacon

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My God I wish we had some of those pigs here, my brother does but he lives close to you.

 

[mred2]

Come to Alabama, you can have all the pigs and take them back with you. They destroy everything. Once they get started, you can not kill them out. My boss's daughter killed 43 on one piece of property one year and didn't make a dent. Most people here do not want the meat, they say it is too nasty. May have something to do with the heat. They will go thru a corn field in a few days and eat or destroy everything.

 

[jonathanstarr]

This is Hawaiian Hau, a dense monster jungle vine that takes over enormous areas of the mountainside. We cut and moved by bucket or choked with line and towed to meadows about 200 loads in the past few weeks.
It's impenetrable stuff, and the nodes are up to 16" in diameter. Even a D8 can't push this stuff without chainsaw cutting it first. If left alone, to will take over our whole property. I wish the koa & sandalwood that was once here was still around, instead of the hau.
It's soft and breaks down pretty fast, so I've been dumping it in meadows between rows of fruit trees, and using the 709 cutter/mower to chop it up for mulch.

 

[Gordon Gould]

My God I wish we had some of those pigs here, my brother does but he lives close to you.

I looked at those pictures just before supper time an thought the same thing. Looks awful good when your hungry. Hunt, how much does one of those weigh hanging weight wise ??

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

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This is Hawaiian Hau, a dense monster jungle vine that takes over enormous areas of the mountainside. We cut and moved by bucket or choked with line and towed to meadows about 200 loads in the past few weeks.
It's impenetrable stuff, and the nodes are up to 16" in diameter. Even a D8 can't push this stuff without chainsaw cutting it first. If left alone, to will take over our whole property. I wish the koa & sandalwood that was once here was still around, instead of the hau.
It's soft and breaks down pretty fast, so I've been dumping it in meadows between rows of fruit trees, and using the 709 cutter/mower to chop it up for mulch.

Yikes, I've never seen anything quite like that. Impenetrable might be an under statement the way it looks.

gg

 

[hunt4570]

My God I wish we had some of those pigs here, my brother does but he lives close to you.

Well have him whack one and send it to you!! :thumbsup:

Hey, How ya doing??

 

[hunt4570]

Come to Alabama, you can have all the pigs and take them back with you. They destroy everything. Once they get started, you can not kill them out. My boss's daughter killed 43 on one piece of property one year and didn't make a dent. Most people here do not want the meat, they say it is too nasty. May have something to do with the heat. They will go thru a corn field in a few days and eat or destroy everything.

Ok, they are very tasty till they get to about 250-300 pounds, don't think the heat has anything to do with it, hot as hades here in SC and down in Texas... And they are delicious!!

 

[hunt4570]

I looked at those pictures just before supper time an thought the same thing. Looks awful good when your hungry. Hunt, how much does one of those weigh hanging weight wise ??

gg

The pigs or the hams? Pigs 150-200 pounds probably, the hams maybe 3-4 pounds with the occasional one in the 5 pound area..