Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

I would use water, and for green wood it doesn't take much...

I would NOT use oil/diesel for the lube, think about it tree's are full of water, why are you adding oils? It takes very little water to lube the blade, so don't set it up to use more than a drip when sawing.

Lots of folks think the water is used to cool the band, but it's really there as a lube...

SR

Yep, and a lube does keep it cooler.. I mix some Pinesol in my water, wards off all the sap in these SYP logs.

 

[VroomVroom]

Finally got my tractor front axle repaired (outer bearing failure) so that I could clean up the deadfall from last week's storms. This dead ash tree wood has stood vertical, but dead, for at least 10 years. "dry storage" as a co-worker of mine calls it. It makes terrific firewood, only a month or two of seasoning required once split. But it is so HARD! Dulls my poorly sharpened blades rather quickly and then cuts kinda smokey lol.

You know the nice THONK sound a baseball bat can make? These ash logs all do that whenever you whack 'em on something.

Sadly, these two trees were among the last of my vertical dead ash. Sucks about the emerald ash borer beetle, but I did appreciate having accessible and hard/dry wood available for my woodstove in the first few years after building our home. Now that I have my production a bit further ahead, I have all the cherry, walnut and oak I'll ever need going forward.

What cub cadet is that. Looks similar to my 2816 mahindra I bought for my mother years Ago.

 

[goeduck]

Never did like Beatles...

They were a little before my time, but I thought the music was very creative.

 

[Frankenkubota]

They were a little before my time, but I thought the music was very creative.

They changed the world.

 

[Yogi05]

I would use water, and for green wood it doesn't take much...

I would NOT use oil/diesel for the lube, think about it tree's are full of water, why are you adding oils? It takes very little water to lube the blade, so don't set it up to use more than a drip when sawing.
Lots of folks think the water is used to cool the band, but it's really there as a lube...
SR

I'm learning as I go and I have been watching/reading info from the guys who build the saws. I think Norwood said diesel is what they use.
Not knowing any different I thought, ok.
I already have some of that on hand.
I did read posts here, and elsewhere, that offered all kind of opinion on lubes, but figured diesel and bar oil made sense. My logic was bar oil is sticky so stays there a bit longer
and diesel is actually a good lube (I've put some drops on 5th wheels when grease is not handy).
Soapy water makes sense too. I didn't figure water alone would keep sap from building up.

Yep, and a lube does keep it cooler.. I mix some Pinesol in my water, wards off all the sap in these SYP logs.

I'll try water (I'd have to go find pinesol ) first I guess and see how I fair out.
I wonder how Murphy's Soap would work? I have an ancient bottle of that somewhere
but damned if I know why.
I don't have any kind of drip system set up yet.
Will a squirt bottle work well on a temporary basis?
If not much is needed, maybe a squirt before each pass?

I really appreciate the coaching too. Thanks all.

Any advice on what I could use as a "valve" for a drip system? I figure a camping type 5 gallon water bottle and any kind of small hose,
but no idea what I could use as a valve yet. Something would eventually come to me or fall in my lap, but I'm open to proven ideas.

Brian

 

[deezler]

What cub cadet is that. Looks similar to my 2816 mahindra I bought for my mother years Ago.

Good eye! It is a Cub Cadet 7305. MTD (owner of cub) simply bought them from Mitsubishi; though I'm not entirely clear who made the front loader. Mahindra did the exact same thing with some of their models, which appear to have slightly stronger loaders. Mine is equivalent to the Mahindra 3015, I believe.

 

[Jstpssng]

They changed the world.

I thought that was CSNY.

I've never been a Beatles fan. My brother was home with his Beatles and Stones, I never got off on that revolutionary stuff...***

***Care to take a stab at what song THAT's a line from?

 

[fruitcakesa]

Got started logging the hemlock stand in our back 40.
Hasn't been cut in the last 60 years at least so it is very dense with tall trees.
We will probably be at it for a few months at the rate we work.

 

[Jstpssng]

Got started logging the hemlock stand in our back 40.
Hasn't been cut in the last 60 years at least so it is very dense with tall trees.
We will probably be at it for a few months at the rate we work.

That does look like some tall wood. How do you get it to grow so straight? Hemlock here tends to have more sweep. usually in two directions over the length of the tree.

 

[GS1100GK]

Helping a neighbor out who had several Ash trees fall during a big storm. The Kubota B2601 with Grapple is the perfect tool for the job!