Nice work.
That should fill up the horse trailer a few times.
Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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That should fill up the horse trailer a few times.
Thanks
The logger is taking them, I was just falling them for him. They had a tussock moth outbreak in this area, killed lots of trees, probably 90% in some areas. Thankfully they are logging it and utilizing the wood and reducing the fire danger.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Nice pics, thanks. Did that second one have a heap of lean and took early retirement?
Went over to Disco Stu's* place today to check the conifer ? cypress pines that he took down last week. I've been looking for some softwood to mix in at times and to help burn down coals. There's a fair bit there.
Disco has had enough of cutting this stuff. The wood he had cut to firewood length I left as he is going to mix it in to his existing supply but he was happy for me to take stuff that was of 3-5ft lengths. He has grown tired of cutting it so what was left he was happy for it to go.
I took this today but it didn't make a dent in the piles.
* Disco is an ironic nickname since there would not be anyone on the planet less like Disco Stu (of Simpsons fame) than my cricket club buddy Stuart.
Disco has had enough of cutting this stuff. The wood he had cut to firewood length I left as he is going to mix it in to his existing supply but he was happy for me to take stuff that was of 3-5ft lengths. He has grown tired of cutting it so what was left he was happy for it to go.
I took this today but it didn't make a dent in the piles.
* Disco is an ironic nickname since there would not be anyone on the planet less like Disco Stu (of Simpsons fame) than my cricket club buddy Stuart.
Awesome pics. Sorry to hear about the trees dying off.
Worked it last fall got about 10 cord till the trails got to bad to even drive the FEL . I'll be working it for few years . I still have my other scroung that's mostly dead ash , lots of hickory and elm that need to be taken also . Owner doesn't like leaning or crooked trees.thats where I got the ash and hickory I milled this spring
Sounds like a nice setup there for you.
Why are the trails so bad you cant get thru them with the tractor even.
I just snagged up a heat shield for my future milling saw a 661. While picking it up at the local ace hardware I was told just how much better stihls are than huskys, sure they are, that's why I'm buying parts for the stihl that fell apart
. Hopefully I can figure out how to get some nice boards and slabs out of the big white oak at my parents place, I also have a couple smaller cherry logs there. Maybe @Sawyer Rob will bring his big tractor over and load it up on my trailer and I can run it over to his place to mill it.
Here's some pictures of it/them, the white oak just fell over, major root rot, crazy it's full of healthy looking leaves. The cherry's were leaners and my dad didn't want any problems with them hitting the neighbors garage, which was a good possibility with the white oak being gone that had blocked a lot of the wind, and all the wind we've had since then.
muad
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Thanks for the details!! I need to buy a mig welder for projects like this. Or, a welder period...
Sawyer Rob
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Looks like a job for your tractor, "parbuckleing" them on your trailer!
Cut to 8' 6" you won't have any problem at all...
SR
Giant skidder with chains lots of rain dont take long to destroy the dirt trails skidder got stuck a couple of times before they called it quits in November. They started up again in April and finished 2 weeks ago.Sounds like a nice setup there for you.
Why are the trails so bad you cant get thru them with the tractor even.
I just snagged up a heat shield for my future milling saw a 661. While picking it up at the local ace hardware I was told just how much better stihls are than huskys, sure they are, that's why I'm buying parts for the stihl that fell apart
Hopefully I can figure out how to get some nice boards and slabs out of the big white oak at my parents place, I also have a couple smaller cherry logs there. Maybe @Sawyer Rob will bring his big tractor over and load it up on my trailer and I can run it over to his place to mill it.
Here's some pictures of it/them, the white oak just fell over, major root rot, crazy it's full of healthy looking leaves. The cherry's were leaners and my dad didn't want any problems with them hitting the neighbors garage, which was a good possibility with the white oak being gone that had blocked a lot of the wind, and all the wind we've had since then.
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Oh I see.
At a buddies property they had a few holes that filled with water, they were around 4-5' deep from the skidder
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That could happen, this one is bigger than the butt of that red oak or the walnut, but I'd like to think I'm better qualified to load it up these days
.I could probably cut a few slabs off it in place to lighten it up a good bit, just don't know if it's wise to cut with the tapper or to remove the tapper. That butt has a huge difference in size from one end to the other, it's quite abnormal and I'm not sure how the boards would look, that's your department
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I have a parts collecting problem... if I see good OEM 254 parts come up for sale, I feel the need to buy them. Today's example was a NOS OEM 254xp piston kit on FB. $100 shipped. So tempting...
muad
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Sounds like a nice setup there for you.
Why are the trails so bad you cant get thru them with the tractor even.
I just snagged up a heat shield for my future milling saw a 661. While picking it up at the local ace hardware I was told just how much better stihls are than huskys, sure they are, that's why I'm buying parts for the stihl that fell apart
Hopefully I can figure out how to get some nice boards and slabs out of the big white oak at my parents place, I also have a couple smaller cherry logs there. Maybe @Sawyer Rob will bring his big tractor over and load it up on my trailer and I can run it over to his place to mill it.
Here's some pictures of it/them, the white oak just fell over, major root rot, crazy it's full of healthy looking leaves. The cherry's were leaners and my dad didn't want any problems with them hitting the neighbors garage, which was a good possibility with the white oak being gone that had blocked a lot of the wind, and all the wind we've had since then.
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Nice logs!!
I have some big honey locust I want to fell, and make into boards to redo the deck on my front porch. Hoping to borrow my buddy's chainsaw mill with his 066 to make the lumber. Have never used one or made lumber, so I'm kind of excited about it.
I finally got the chance to light up the fire pit full of Spruce, got to "sniff" it all day, while I split Oak!
Need another load of spruce to help me finish the Oak.
Sawyer Rob
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My vote is to load it and bring it over, AND bring a BIG saw along in case we need it!! lolThat could happen, this one is bigger than the butt of that red oak or the walnut, but I'd like to think I'm better qualified to load it up these days
I could probably cut a few slabs off it in place to lighten it up a good bit, just don't know if it's wise to cut with the tapper or to remove the tapper. That butt has a huge difference in size from one end to the other, it's quite abnormal and I'm not sure how the boards would look, that's your department
We may have to do some trimming on that butt...
SR
This job is paying me $250 a day to haul Oak saw logs out. We only work about 6 hours. I take two loads to my house, and then my friend takes the trailer home with him and brings it back the next day. The homeowners are friends of his wife. I built this gantry across the back of the trailer and hang a snatch block on it. We skid a log up behind the trailer with log tines on the NorTrac 204. While the log is in the air on one end, Mike flips a choker around the end. While he's doing that I drop the log, get off the tractor and jump in the truck. I pull the log up till it's almost touching the gantry, back up and it lowers the log almost all the way on the trailer. He flips the choker out of the snatch block and I pull the log the rest of the way up. He pulls he rope back as I back up. It takes less than 5 minutes to put a log on the truck, and about half an hour to put a whole load on. We were getting really good at it when Covid hit. The homeowners put a halt on cleaning up the woods. They have about 30 Oaks down. I told him, it's the woods, just let them rot. But, he said his wife was making a park like setting there when a tornado hit. Hope we can get back to it soon. I have all the wood split and stacked.
Went over to Disco Stu's* place today to check the conifer ? cypress pines that he took down last week. I've been looking for some softwood to mix in at times and to help burn down coals. There's a fair bit there.
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Disco has had enough of cutting this stuff. The wood he had cut to firewood length I left as he is going to mix it in to his existing supply but he was happy for me to take stuff that was of 3-5ft lengths. He has grown tired of cutting it so what was left he was happy for it to go.
I took this today but it didn't make a dent in the piles.
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* Disco is an ironic nickname since there would not be anyone on the planet less like Disco Stu (of Simpsons fame) than my cricket club buddy Stuart.
Yay! I'm not the only one that likes a bit of Leylandii/leyland cypress. its deffo cypress and I think its leylandii from th nice white wood and he bark. SAAAAAPPPPP CIIIITTTEEHHHH! burns great though, hot. its actually very very dense for a softwood, specific density dry is about 0.55 and it does pretty easily. splits ok-ish. you'll do it all with the fiskars but you'll find the knots a different game to your normal fare i suspect.
