Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

A neighbor had some trees dropped last week, mostly hickory. So I went over and harvested the logs today, hauling them back to my processing area. As always, I forget to take pictures until it was all done.

Yeah, that's a bucket on my pallet forks. I usually load a few saws, toolbox, chains, gas, oil, thermos, and helmet all into the bucket, then pick up the bucket with my forks to take to where I'm felling trees. Half the time the bucket just acts as the collection point for gear, but sometimes I'll switch from forks to the bucket for cleanup or moving shorties. The last load of logs coming home at the end of the day was small enough that I was able to carry the bucket and final logs on the forks at the same time.

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How are you lucky enough to have a neighbor that provides good firewood ? That's what I call a good deal! If I remember he provided some a while back too. I have a neighbor with an OWB that I give wood to but it is all junk softwood that I have to move anyway. He burns it in the summer to make his hot water.

gg

 

[WinterDeere]

I could use a neighbor like that ! Good score !

How are you lucky enough to have a neighbor that provides good firewood ? That's what I call a good deal! If I remember he provided some a while back too.

Gordon has a good memory! But different neighbor, this time.

Basically all of my neighbors call me whenever there's a tree down. I live in an old farm house, that was on 150 acres, and was allowed to gradually turn back into woods in a few stages 1920's - 1960's. It's now broken into 5-10 acre wooded lots, each with a newer home on it, and I'm the only full-time wood burner among them.

My neighbors love it that I'm willing to come harvest their downed trees, or carry away the logs when they have the local arborist take one down for them. I'll even drop their trees, if they're far enough from the house or garage to have no chance of hitting anything. It's basically a win-win, as they'd have to pay to have the stuff carted away or chipped, otherwise.

Here's the December haul, getting ready to split some of it after lunch:

 

[Duds13]

A neighbor had some trees dropped last week, mostly hickory. So I went over and harvested the logs today, hauling them back to my processing area. As always, I forget to take pictures until it was all done.

Yeah, that's a bucket on my pallet forks. I usually load a few saws, toolbox, chains, gas, oil, thermos, and helmet all into the bucket, then pick up the bucket with my forks to take to where I'm felling trees. Half the time the bucket just acts as the collection point for gear, but sometimes I'll switch from forks to the bucket for cleanup or moving shorties. The last load of logs coming home at the end of the day was small enough that I was able to carry the bucket and final logs on the forks at the same time.

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Jealous!

 

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Gordon has a good memory! But different neighbor, this time.

Basically all of my neighbors call me whenever there's a tree down. I live in an old farm house, that was on 150 acres, and was allowed to gradually turn back into woods in a few stages 1920's - 1960's. It's now broken into 5-10 acre wooded lots, each with a newer home on it, and I'm the only full-time wood burner among them.

My neighbors love it that I'm willing to come harvest their downed trees, or carry away the logs when they have the local arborist take one down for them. I'll even drop their trees, if they're far enough from the house or garage to have no chance of hitting anything. It's basically a win-win, as they'd have to pay to have the stuff carted away or chipped, otherwise.

Here's the December haul, getting ready to split some of it after lunch:

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This is the thing l miss the most with living at the new digs. Being able to walk into the woods and have free rein to harvest firewood.
Now the best l can do is clean up the two acres of blow down l presently have and having stems delivered to the house to cut up and process for the long term.
I haven’t even developed a processing area.
Now, l can see the ocean but l notice no trees to cut down there.
What’s a woodchuck to do?

 

[WinterDeere]

Now, l can see the ocean but l notice no trees to cut down there.

Oh wah!

I'd trade this wood burning habit for living at the beach, any day!

You know how it is... I wanted to move east, and my wife wanted to move west. So we "compromised", and moved west.

 

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Oh wah!

I'd trade this wood burning habit for living at the beach, any day!

You know how it is... I wanted to move east, and my wife wanted to move west. So we "compromised", and moved west.

I know I know. We also compromised. My wife wanted the beach and l still embrace the woods so we moved to the beach.
I need someone like you to breathe on me so I can catch what you have.

 

[goeduck]

Oh wah!

I'd trade this wood burning habit for living at the beach, any day!

You know how it is... I wanted to move east, and my wife wanted to move west. So we "compromised", and moved west.

I do both. For some reason I gravitate to the woods and in-ground gardening more than in-water "gardening". (I also raise oysters on my tidelands)

 

[John_Mc]

You know how it is... I wanted to move east, and my wife wanted to move west. So we "compromised", and moved west.

If Philadelphia is "west", I guess you didn't move very far?

 

[WinterDeere]

If Philadelphia is "west", I guess you didn't move very far?

lol... I don't actually live in Philadelphia, it's just our closest city. No one here would know the name of the rural Philly suburb in which I actually live, and I like the anonymity of not naming it.

But yeah, I grew up along the Delaware river, northeast of the city. Now I live an hour west of that, northwest of the city.

I've always enjoyed living close enough to a city to go there for an afternoon or evening on the town, but then escape back to my rural haunt, away from the noise and traffic.

 

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I do both. For some reason I gravitate to the woods and in-ground gardening more than in-water "gardening". (I also raise oysters on my tidelands)

I also am rooted to the woods.
I hate the beach. I hate the crowds, l hate the sand,, l hate the sun, l hate the heat and because l drowned As a youngster and was resuscitated, l hate the water.
Other than that it’s ok.