The Farm Tractor in the Woodlot

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Where my helper started washing the logs, getting them ready to be milled,

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And once again, we had some VERY nice logs and a bit of firewood!

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SR
 
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The little 4300 is pushing it's limit without counterweight other than filled tires but the maneuvering is a bit tight in a natural drain. Finally had to give up and take another cut off of the load, just too tippy. I did get to some shade first though!:msp_thumbsup:

Hu
 
not enough green tractors ! here is the 5400 hay tractor that I now use for bushhoggin and moving logs around - the log on the front is green red oak and a 28 inch bar on the saw. The 7510 is more of a farm tractor - it gets used for everything including holding a duck blind in the air so we can shoot deer out of it hahah Pricey deer stand haha IMG_0755.JPGIMG_0535.JPG IMG_0535.JPG
 
Sure is fun splitting ash!

I'm glad this thread has been recently resurrected. It's been great looking at the pics you guys have posted. Hopefully I'll get a few of my own up someday.
 
I've been on and off cleaning up some tornado damages tree's out of a ravine,

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This woods is full of red oaks, along with some others mixed in. Anyway, after winching numerous logs/tree's out, I had my eye on these two leaners,

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So, it was time to get started on getting them out,

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These two tree's have some top grade saw logs in them,

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but I couldn't get a straight line pull on them, so I put a snatch block up in a tree,

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It took a while to get them both on the ground as they were "hangers",

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But FINALLY I could winch them up out of the ravine,

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and get them loaded, to pull "doubles" on home,

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Those 17 footers are about as good as red oak saw logs get around here!

SR
 
Nice looking oak and nice job taking them down.
Do you have a veneer buyer in your area or are you gonna saw them up into boards?
John
 
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Ferguson Tea 20 (1954) with forks moving pallets.
I also have a 3T winch for it and a 3T homemade timbertrailer with wheel drive (12.4x28 tyres).
It does 40 km/h on the road after having installed bigger tyres and a different carburettor. Stock it's only supposed to do 21 km/h.
I'm restoring tractor nr 2 at the moment, a 55 model. The engine has been overhauled, swapped out to 87 mm cylinder liners instead of the stock 80/85mm bore and a upgraded carb. Stock hp: 24/28. After upgrades: 40-50 hp.
 
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