Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Jstpssng]

Can't wait to see them piled in your wagon

gg

It will be overloaded, without a doubt.

 

[Gordon Gould]

No tractors, just wood!

Winter wood is drying. In about a month transfer to the woodshed!View attachment 815094View attachment 815096View attachment 815099

Looks like plenty of wood for your neck of the woods My daughter and family live out that way in Portland.

gg

 

[Molalla1]

Looks like plenty of wood for your neck of the woods My daughter and family live out that way in Portland.

gg

How does your daughter like Portland Gordon?

 

[Whitbread]

One beech and one elm filled the trailer today!

 

[Gordon Gould]

How does your daughter like Portland Gordon?

Apparently they like it? They moved there when my SIL went back to school and have been there 18 years. She left here in '91 and went to Marblemount, WA. I have no idea how she ended up a city girl.

gg

 

[Alan46]

Looks like plenty of wood for your neck of the woods My daughter and family live out that way in Portland.

gg

We just use wood for heat, usually about 7+ cords a year!

We try to stay away from Portland these days, to many bad things happening there!

 

[ultrarunner]

We grow Christmas trees in your neighborhood on 30 acres... the last few years have been rough with the heat, minimal rain and fires...

Hoping for the best but farming is what it is...

Friends moved their business from SF Bay Area to Portland 15 years ago and says it turned out to be a huge blunder...

At least you guys can still heat with wood...

 

[Alan46]

We grow Christmas trees in your neighborhood on 30 acres... the last few years have been rough with the heat, minimal rain and fires...

Hoping for the best but farming is what it is...

Friends moved their business from SF Bay Area to Portland 15 years ago and says it turned out to be a huge blunder...

At least you guys can still heat with wood...

The good thing is in the summer, we are almost always 10 degrees less than Portland.
We are @ 2000’ elevation on 5 acres with plenty of trees

 

[hunt4570]

After all that July rain some of the higher places are dry enough to work in. This weekend I started a new stud wood pile.


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I set my camera out while I worked on this up-rooted blow down lying across a tractor road. It is not a big tree by any means but it is big enough to make three stud wood saw logs. Took these photos off the video.


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I wish I had thought to put a chunk of wood under the butt to keep it up off the ground before I cut it off of the up-rooted stump. Usually a good idea. I had to make a couple more cuts to remove the butt rot with the tree on the ground. Can be hard on the chain. It's been so long since I ran the saw it seemed a little out of tune.


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Winched in the two bottom logs like this.


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The top log I winched in small end first using the first two logs as an anchor and their sliders as a snatch block. If your not careful this is a good way to put a curlicue kink in your cable. It happens if there is a lot of tension in the cable going around the sharp bend. Just like when a Christmas ribbon is drawn over a scissors blade under your thumb to make a fancy curlicue bow. But with a light log and a movable anchor that will not happen.


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My camera timed out (memory full) just as I started to winch in. But the log came in as planned and completed the three log hitch.

Here's the 15 minute video

gg

Thanks for the curlicuing lesson Gordon!

 

[hunt4570]

Another pict. of the stump and my 562XP to show the size of it,

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I just don't have trees that big around here..