What have you done with/to your GC Series 2300, 2400, 1700 Tractor TODAY

[Raines]

Used the woods RC4 and my forks to clear out lane between field and creek line and cleared a path into the woods. Used the forks to move a few fallen trees and limbs. View attachment 714793View attachment 714794View attachment 714795View attachment 714796View attachment 714797View attachment 714798View attachment 714799View attachment 714800

 

[LostMy65]

Got the last of the wood in the barn before the rain. I feel good.

 

[Dmacleo]

cutting up some huge hybrid poplar this week, separating for sawmill, chipper, and firewood.
turns out the gc2400 CANNOT haul a 53 foot tree with a 15 inch base as is.
had to cut into 2 26 +/- foot sections

 

[cglaser104]

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cutting up some huge hybrid poplar this week, separating for sawmill, chipper, and firewood.
turns out the gc2400 CANNOT haul a 53 foot tree with a 15 inch base as is.
had to cut into 2 26 +/- foot sections

Ha! I took out 5 poplar trees this weekend with my GC1710, landscape rake and trusty Echo Chainsaw. Friend also brought his Stihl saw and Kioti 3510SE and we made a day of it. Like you, it was separated for chipping, firewood and sawmill logs to be turned into furniture I plan on making for the house.

Skinny leafy limbs up front and firewood pile to be out back. Sawmill logs arent visible but are behind the brush pile to the right in the picture. Friend has a sawmill on order which will be here in November!

 

[Dmacleo]

saturday gonna be dropping 3 parts of poplar tree(s) (2 parts one tree single part on other tree) I can't do w/o ropes/pulling. one will be small branch (35 ft long 10 inch base) over roof of my house.
one will be 17 inch base 80 foot leaning towards power line. I already dropped the other section of this, this one grew in 2 parts. that was the 15 inch base log mentioned before.
and heavy one (part of same tree as roof overhang, it grew center section with 4 offshoots) will be 60 ft long and where being cut (4 ft mark just above the branch splits) 28 inch base.
actual base of this 17 year old tree is 59-60 inches depending on where measured. this tree for a few years grew 8-12 feet a year. it took over the yard. so now I have to kill it LOL
I know 2 of these cuts I'm not gonna try to haul as is LOL
the 10 inch base roof overhang, once I cut brush/firewood parts out will prob be 20 ft long can handle that ok. got to look once its down, I may (due to bend/knot) cut at 11 ft marks (for 10 ft board) and just carry with very bad fitting bolt on pallet forks I borrowed of friend some months ago.

I'll say this, those r1 tires I put on DIG. at one point with that aforementioned log I had the tractor on ONE tire. fronts off the ground just under 2 feet and left rear off a foot. I had diff lock engaged at that point and the ONE tire on right rear was still pulling tractor up.
in hindsight maybe thats not a good thing LOL

 

[kenmbz]

Dave - careful with the power line lean-those power lines can really fry anything.
Poplars are huge here too, and heavy as hell. Just cutting through that base is work for a pretty big chain.
I paid to have one taken down by my pool, I could almost lay across the base, and I am 6' tall.

Get some help if you are roping it down.

What do you use to make your boards, do you have a mill?

 

[lpakiz]

As far as using that huge tree for boards, you may be disappointed in the lumber.
Around here (Wisconsin) Poplar is known for warping and twisting. Even if piled and stripped correctly and appearing to cure straight, the lumber will curl as you unpile it. It also is very susceptible to rot and decay if it is allowed to get wet.
In addition, limbs are even worse, as there are “corrective” forces present in a limb as it tries to support its horizontal weight while growing. Even a leaning tree has these forces present, and they appear as soon as they are sawed into a board. When sawed, the lumber still remembers those forces and they influence the straightness when those forces are released in sawing.
That said, the interior studs of my 1976 house are home-sawed poplar and they are as tough as any wood out there. Unbreakable and hold a nail like there is a nut on the backside. A poplar (aspen) 2X4 used as a lever almost can’t be broken.
But the builder had to cut and splint many of them to straighten them. Hardly worth the effort.
If they are to be used as sheeting, one option is to nail them up tight, green and directly off the mill, thus holding them straight while they dry and keeping them straight for “the duration.” Hopefully their shrinkage can be tolerated. Shrinkage is worst in their width, but almost negligible in their length.

 

[Dmacleo]

uncle has the sawmill and he wants them as well as the 2 spruce I dropped today.
as far as dropping, my cousin (and his worker my OTHER cousin, his brother) does this for a living and is hauling equip up to do so and refuses to take any money.
so buying fuel and pizza for all is all they will take.
I worked in woods starting when I was 10 yrs old, and 53 now, I know when to drop a tree myself or use mechanical help. while not doing it for a bit the bunch I dropped this week were all within 2 inches of desired end placements and I hit the driven in targets multiple times. one target so deep in ground will need to use backhoe on it before I till garden again.
bought a cheap 20" 46cc remington saw last year and I got to say its worked like a champ. its a little cold blooded, starts super easy just got to let it warm up before nailing trees,but once used to the warm up time its worked real well.

 

[ProfJeff]

Been doing clearing of a debris pile, this is almost at the beginning of the project. It's pile of dirt and logs at the top of the property that the prior owner pushed together with a small dozer according to my neighbor. I had no idea how much wood was in the pile, I thought it was mostly dirt. This is almost down to the ground on the one end but there is still wood buried under the dirt--I scrape a layer and pull it out, and then scrape again. (So far only 1 snake!) Then, a pic all of the wood that was in the pile now halfway down the hill where I store firewood closer to the firepit. I've been splitting most of the wood up at the top of the hill, it goes in the FEL easier. I think I am about 40% done the pile so far. There'll be a LOT of fire pits this winter.

I should note---my property goes from minimum 8% to almost 20% slope, most of it is 10-12%, so the whole thing is a hill front to back. I have to back down the hill when the FEL is full of wood.

 

[GeneV]

Duuuuudes! I feel like a girlie man coz you guys are doing all this real work, meanwhile I'm just putzing around. I did this yesterday tho, pulled out some stumps that the previous owner sawed flush with the ground, they were driving me crazy mowing over them.