Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Hoobie]

White pine is fine. I have an abundance of field grown knotty pine I am weeding out and burn for kindling. Pitchy hot stuff.
I also use my own firestarters. My wife and I had a candle business for 20 years. Our process produced unusable scrap wax which we mixed with wood shavings in portion cups. We sold these as a sideline to campgrounds. I kept a good supply for us when we closed shop.

 

[Rockbadchild]

90% of my wood harvesting happens in February and March. No yellow jackets, no poison ivy, no spiders, no snakes!

Sometimes you can't choose the time, I remember spending most of summer 2019 in the woods, after a tornado ripped thru our area in May. But most years, I try to put that work off until at least after Thanksgiving.

yeah I also get my firewood during the winter mostly because it’s easier on sled, I start trail maintenance in September and I hunt while doing it.

 

[BackRoad]

Happy Labor day to the folks that frequent this thread.

It's kind of a marker for end of Summer...let the Wood season begin!

Appreciate all of you guys...

 

[Gordon Gould]

White pine is fine. I have an abundance of field grown knotty pine I am weeding out and burn for kindling. Pitchy hot stuff.
I also use my own firestarters. My wife and I had a candle business for 20 years. Our process produced unusable scrap wax which we mixed with wood shavings in portion cups. We sold these as a sideline to campgrounds. I kept a good supply for us when we closed shop.

That's seems like a clever way to enhance your business. Make a useful byproduct from scrap. Hat's off to you and your wife Hoobie

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

Happy Labor day to the folks that frequent this thread.

It's kind of a marker for end of Summer...let the Wood season begin!

Appreciate all of you guys...

Happy Labor Day to you too. This is a good thread. Lots of contributors with varied methods, equipment, ideas, and reasons they do what they do make it interesting. Always something to learn and/or think about.

You are right about the extra urge to work on wood when Labor Day arrives. I had the tractor in the woods today. First time in a couple months it's been so wet here. Still is but much better now. Had to blow off all the pine pollen and needles it had set so long.

gg

 

[Hoobie]

That's seems like a clever way to enhance your business. Make a useful byproduct from scrap. Hat's off to you and your wife Hoobie

gg

Thanks. It actually grew into an important sideline for us.

 

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Like the dogs w you.
Mine can only come if not felling.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Made a start on some Spruce and Fir stud wood yesterday. I have 10 12'ers in that modest pile.

gg

 

[Rockbadchild]

Like the dogs w you.
Mine can only come if not felling.

I bring mine with me all the time, They don’t like the chainsaw so they stay far away from me which is good. I will have to watch the new addition she likes to stay close but I will tie her up if I have too.

 

[fruitcakesa]

Got an order to saw a load of hemlock lumber and beams on my sawmill.
Perfect use for the pile of sawlogs sitting on my landing.
It’s turning into a busy retirement hobby