Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

Ok, back to the sawmill, a little fresher wood, a tree I cut down in my backyard to give me a better view across the pond. I needed some longer dimensional lumber to replace a dwindling supply. I got 3-12'6" logs out of this tree and it time to cut them up, 2x4s and2x8s today.

Cut the smaller log into 2x4s, you can see them on the skid to the right.. this log will be 2x8s.


And here they are..


And I'll finish this third log with more 2x4s


Heres a pic of my toe board set up, works well.


Got to keep things square!!


Cut my cant into 3-3 1/2" slabs, I set them upright and slice off 1 1/2" thick 2x4s 3 at a time!


And the fruits of my labor for the day, 23 2x4s, and 5 2x8s 12'6" long


A bit over $400 at lowes at todays prices!
I was amazed to see the 12' 2x8s were only 50 cents more each than the 2x4s!

 

[hunt4570]

So I have my log deck clear right now so I'll go back to working on that big (to me) oak tree I took down a couple weeks ago. Finished bucking up and moving most of it to my splitter area and just have the trunk left. So I drug it up (I do not have a winch) in front of the log deck and cut it down to 10 1/2 feet.

At this point its still 17' long and 2665 lbs according to my weight calculator


Taking it up to the mill


And from where it was


Cut it down to 10 1/2feet , a couple rounds there and a couple discs to make tables out of


And up on the deck waiting


I'm just going to take a couple slabs out of the middle, which is a good thing because I don't think I could roll it up on the mill!!! (still 1567 lbs and this old man can not roll something that big by myself!) and I will split what is left for firewood.

 

[Jstpssng]

Thank you for the picture of your toe board set up. Several members described theirs a while back but I couldn’t visualize it. I do know that my hydraulic floor jack doesn’t work very well.

 

[Big_6]

If you dig a pond before the next one we could have the log roll!

 

[hunt4570]

Thank you for the picture of your toe board set up. Several members described theirs a while back but I couldn’t visualize it. I do know that my hydraulic floor jack doesn’t work very well.

You are most welcome. I have it mounted there "permanently" kinda, just bolted down. I think its limit was 1100 pounds but you are only picking up half a log so I've not had a log it wont lift yet.
I tried a floor jack for a while to and what a pain!

 

[hunt4570]

If you dig a pond before the next one we could have the log roll!

This pond I have isn't good enough for you? And WELCOME to the forum!

 

[Big_6]

Thanks fo for the welcome.!
Left AS to hang with the fart knockers at OPE!
No slacker here, got muh 45.70!
That there water will do, now let me get my corkers!

 

[Mooseman1616]

Hello, I just found this thread and I’m slowly reading the pages. I’m interested in the cold weather operations as I’m moving from Texas, hot hot, to Pennsylvania, cold cold and snow. Lots to learn ahead.

Welcome to PA! What part of the state did you end up in? I've been thinking about doing the reverse of you and moving to the Grand Prairie area from Central PA

 

[ETpilot]

I’m in the Scranton area. We bought a house on 4.5 acres in the city. Very quiet. Similar to being in the country. House is mostly hidden from view. People don’t realize there is a house there. Move was to be close to family. I grew up in Brooklyn and we have family in the city. Close but not too close.

What is really nice is all the stores that we shop at here in Texas are all within 3-4 miles. In Texas the local town is 15, then another at 30 and the one we usually shop at is 60 miles one-way. We have 65 acres and it has become a lot of work at my age. Plus the heat in Texas has gotten to me.

If you move to Grand Prairie you best love traffic. It sits between Ft Worth and Dallas with wall to wall cites from one to the other. I’ve done my fair share of driving in that area. I’ve flown into a few of the local airports there. Busy airspace too. Grand Prairie, like Addison, is just one runway surrounded by buildings and homes. Both are nice airports.

I’m planning to cut in 2, the metal firewood rack I pictured. Plus the remaining cattle feeder I have. It makes transporting them easier and then weld them back together. Moving equipment is the hard part. Thinking it all out is doubly hard.

 

[Woodstock Walt]

Cut a nice bucket load of hornbeam rounds this morning. I am very thankful to have an abundance of this stuff on our property. For whatever reason, many of them grow to about this size (3-5" diam.) then die. They remain standing for a year or two, then the root ball rots and they fall over. At this point I'll buck them into 18" lengths and stack them to dry. It's usually dry enough to burn already at this stage with zero rot.

It is quickly becoming my favorite wood type to burn. It requires minimal effort to process compared to larger standing hardwoods, and the stuff burns like coal in the woodstove.