Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

That's cool. Fuel dumped in it? Or is that how it burns once it catches?

No extra fuel, just the chimney effect when set down on a fire.

 

[hunt4570]

Chop a hole in a dead, hollow cedar tree, put in some burning birch bark and it goes right up.

At least that's what a friend told me.

I wish we had cedars big enough to do that.. I think my biggest is about 4" dia!

 

[Creamer]

I cut some firewood today. Since I didn’t have any help I didn’t get the splitter out. The mini x is great for cutting firewood. View attachment 717866View attachment 717867View attachment 717868

Isn't a mini ex good for splitting as well. You can pick them up move them into position. Drive the teeth down through rounds as needed. Move the splits out of the way and even pile them. Then grab the next one. You could even stack the pieces - it just depends on how much "practice" you need on the mini-ex.

 

[Skeans1]

Getting close to the max of the head

 

[Creamer]

I get a magazine called Northern Woodlands and in this months on-line version there was a feature article about one of our common contributors on this thread - John_Mc. I thought the things he is involved in were very interesting and some here may enjoy reading it. It is called "Fostering a Forest Community". Asking him if I could post a link he said this,

"You can put up the link if you want. Northern Woodlands is a great magazine.

I was a bit embarrassed that their write up came out so "me" oriented. Most of the various projects with which I'm involved are group efforts. I'm just one of the community members involved. I have a hand in organizing, but it really is a group effort."

Here it is: https://northernwoodlands.org/about...ter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=comm_voices

gg

Nice article. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[4570Man]

Isn't a mini ex good for splitting as well. You can pick them up move them into position. Drive the teeth down through rounds as needed. Move the splits out of the way and even pile them. Then grab the next one. You could even stack the pieces - it just depends on how much "practice" you need on the mini-ex.

The mini x works good for putting pieces in position on the splitter but splitting with the teeth was unsuccessful. I also tried using it to load the split pieces but that didn’t work that great either. It did work good for pulling pieces to the far side of the truck so we didn’t have to throw them so far.

 

[Skeans1]

The mini x works good for putting pieces in position on the splitter but splitting with the teeth was unsuccessful. I also tried using it to load the split pieces but that didn’t work that great either. It did work good for pulling pieces to the far side of the truck so we didn’t have to throw them so far.

Look up a stump splitter it’s one way you could split the stuff.

 

[John_Mc]

I get a magazine called Northern Woodlands and in this months on-line version there was a feature article about one of our common contributors on this thread - John_Mc. I thought the things he is involved in were very interesting and some here may enjoy reading it. It is called "Fostering a Forest Community". Asking him if I could post a link he said this,

"You can put up the link if you want. Northern Woodlands is a great magazine.

I was a bit embarrassed that their write up came out so "me" oriented. Most of the various projects with which I'm involved are group efforts. I'm just one of the community members involved. I have a hand in organizing, but it really is a group effort."

Here it is: https://northernwoodlands.org/about...ter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=comm_voices

gg

Northern Woodlands really is a great magazine and a great organization. I think they do so much to help bridge the gap that sometimes occurs between landowners, the forest products industry, and various land/wildlife conservation causes. As I mentioned in my interview, learning to understand and balance various goals and uses of our forests fascinates me. Northern Woodlands seems to share that interest.

There is a whole series of interviews with a wide variety of people in Northern Woodlands' Community Voices series.Check some of them out, there is some really interesting stuff in there. I know or have met a few of those mentioned: I saw a horse logging demonstration recently by Brad Johnson. It ws interesting to see how he combined the best of horse logging with some smaller "light on the land" mechanized equipment. Ethan Tapper Chittenden County forester here in VT is a fascinating guy and in interesting speaker. I've attended a number of walks he has led in nearby town forests. He has done so much to decrease the fear and misunderstanding some people have around logging and working forests. Steve Hagenbuch Audubon Vermont conservation biologist and forester is a fascinating guy, and his work has done much to show people that actively managing a forest and harvesting trees is often a crucial part of managing for wildlife. I have not run into Bob Keller, the Lighthawk pilot in years, but he was the one who introduced me to Northern Wings (which has since folded in to LightHawk) when I first moved to Vermont.

I came across another fun Northern Woodlands article as I was cleaning up a bit: Musings of a Firewood Aficionado seems to fit well with the subject of this thread. I think a vacillate back and forth between the Firewood Snob and the Firewood Aficionado.

 

[4570Man]

Look up a stump splitter it’s one way you could split the stuff.

I was thinking about building something like this.

 

[Skeans1]

Danzco out here use to make a stump splitter that would pin on to a heel rack of a shovel (tracked log loader with a live heel and special boom) to do exactly that.

6K Products - Heel Rack Attachments

www.6kproducts.com