Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

Which sharpener is best, A-electric, B-hand file, C-all the above.....
Which Chainsaw Sharpener is Best? Let's find out! Stihl, Granberg, Chicago Electric, Oregon - YouTube

So which did you like? I know it will be an electric one, but which one? I kind of liked that Stihl 2 in 1..

 

[deezler]

Good article about community wood banks in New England. Kudos to any of y'all that contribute to such endeavors.

Sorry if this is behind a paywall.

When There’s No Heat: ‘You Need Wood, You Get Wood’ - The New York Times

 

[arrow]

That book was already written 2000 years ago, or depend how you look at it, before the foundations of the world........

Mine will have pictures though.

 

[John_Mc]

Good article about community wood banks in New England. Kudos to any of y'all that contribute to such endeavors.

Sorry if this is behind a paywall.

When There’s No Heat: ‘You Need Wood, You Get Wood’ - The New York Times

I'm one of the co-coordinators of our local WoodBank. So far, 7 people in town have sent me copies of the article.

 

[John_Mc]

Long wedges work better in the winter because they have a shallower taper. Short fast tapered wedges are prone to squirting out on you when the wood is frozen and icy. But a long wedge might bottom out on the hinge before it is fully set. So you bore a slot thru the center of the hinge as a passage for the wedge. Or if the tree has to small a diameter to get a wedge in after the back cut is started then you can put the wedge in before starting the back cut with this method.

Cut out the notch. Lay or hold the saw on the flat of the notch and bore straight back and out the back of the tree. Set the wedge in the back slot. Then make a back cut on each side of the tree slightly over lapping and above the bore cut. Drive in the wedge to tip the tree over. The small sections of vertical grain above the bore cut split very easily.

Tongue and Groove Cut so called very handy here in the frozen north - the land of smallish trees.

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I use that technique a lot myself. One thing I add: after making the bore cut through the face (step 2 in Gordon's pictures), I'll offset up by about 1 saw kerf and bore again, going just deep enough to have a double thickness bore through the center of the hinge, but no further. When driving the wedge, this prevents the wedge from trying to lift the hinge itself if you have to drive the wedge deeply into the hinge. (Lifting right at the hinge can break the hinge.)

 

[Oldpath05]

So what do you do with those twigs once you get them pulled up tight to your tractor?

I had to unwind that twig, it started to tighten the outside part of tire chain, also it's another reason I like making brush piles.

 

[Oldpath05]

So which did you like? I know it will be an electric one, but which one? I kind of liked that Stihl 2 in 1..

I bought the Grandberg 12v 4 years ago, I like it cause the bar stays on and it has a motor. I have a Timberline but that one seems to jam the carbide cutter when doing the point side facing cutter.

 

[Oldpath05]

Theres about a dozen oak tops that need to be gathered up, some easy to get some not but all haul hard because of porcupine limbs. First pic is out, the 2nd pic is next week, the video is show and not tell.......

L34OO getting oak tops - YouTube

 

[Jstpssng]

Theres about a dozen oak tops that need to be gathered up, some easy to get some not but all haul hard because of porcupine limbs. First pic is out, the 2nd pic is next week, the video is show and not tell.......
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L34OO getting oak tops - YouTube

Invalid attachment, although it could be my ISP.

 

[Oldpath05]

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Fixed, I think.....