firewood tractors

[alleyyooper]

Hey Rob good to see your back cutting, splitting, stacking and drying the wood.

Al

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I don’t lift my logs, they stay on the ground.

I don't lift my logs either, I let my tractor do that. lol

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Hey Rob good to see your back cutting, splitting, stacking and drying the wood.

Al

Thanks Al, Spring is springing, so time to get some wood cut/split.

SR

 

[chipper1]

I don't lift my logs either, I let my tractor do that. lol

SR

My boy said, that doesn't look like Rob lol.
I was literally just thinking about you when he and I drove past the spot I got that big red oak log we cut all the boards out of. Just put the last of those boards on the other side of the woodshed last fall.

Since its the firewood tractor thread.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My boy said, that doesn't look like Rob lol.

I've become a hippie!! lol

SR

 

[chipper1]

I've become a hippie!! lol

SR

That's funny.
I forgot to say I posted that picture of my tractor/wood because that's where the black locust logs were at when we met .

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Split some more wood today,

I had a bunch of "limb" wood that I didn't have to split, so that was nice

But, there was still plenty of bigger pieces to split too,

I'll go back and pick up that "kindling" later...

SR

 

[nathan4104]

from a few weeks ago, making up some birch to sell later in the fall.
Spring is slowly coming on, the loggers are all busy trying to get as much wood to the mill before 1/2 loads come on so i'm out of wood!!( firewood being low priority for them) it's the perfect weather now, no mud quite yet, just near freezing, no black flys! dang!

 

[mountainguyed67]

get as much wood to the mill before 1/2 loads come on

What do you mean by 1/2 loads?

 

[nathan4104]

What do you mean by 1/2 loads?

Highway Dept puts weight restrictions on, most roads, X per axle due to the frost coming out of the ground which works out to basically 1/2 a load of logs on a semi, so it's not worth it for the guys to haul for 1/2 the money per trip

 

[mountainguyed67]

Okay, we don’t have that frost issue here. The loggers wait until the snow is all gone, then pull out shortly before snow in the fall. The average frost depth in California is 5”, I’m guessing it’s three feet or so where the loggers get their logs though.

 

[chipper1]

Cleaned up another bucket full today on the neighbors, I got a lot more wood over there. Right now I'm just trying to take the easy stuff and the stuff that will make our place look nicer.

All the wood in here except the stuff against the wall will be for 21-22, and what's left against the wall that doesn't get burned before summer will be too.

 

[alleyyooper]

Load restrictions put in place here in SE Michigan now. How ever the Governor just reduced some restrictions on certain roads so food supplys and medical supplys can be brought in to replenish the supplys.
My area will probably be M24, M21, M15 M81 all main state roads off interstates to stores in towns.

I've been working in mud since the end of deer season December.
Deer hunted in mud since about Thanks giving.





It is slowly drying out but rain in the froecast again tonight.

Rob picking up the kindling with a barley fork?


Al

 

[mountainguyed67]

From last year, pushing over a 28” incense cedar. Making a work area, we didn’t have a clear area to work in. It was all timber. We have a lot of bark beetle killed trees, so we need an area to process the mess. We’ve hauled about 25 cord out of this little area already. Brakes are squeaky because I don’t have the rear brakes working yet. Should get that done within a few months.

 

[mountainguyed67]

Moving the same stump. That’s why I prefer to push them over, then I can get the stump out of the ground. Still need to cut a couple rounds off this stump, then it can go in the burn pile.

 

[Brownthumb]

Sad to say I bought her new in 98.
She has lived her life outside but fires up everytime I jump on her.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I cut a little firewood today, and got another box moved to the drying area,

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Last fall at the Paul Bunyan EXPO, I bought a hook a roon and the next time I went to split wood, I put it on the splitter. When I got to where the rounds were, I got off my tractor and moved the splitter valve a little and there was a LOUD POP, my hook a roon had fell slightly out of sight and when the ram moved, it broke the head right off!! I didn't even get to use it one time! lol

BUT, as you can see, I re-hung the head,

I'm also now being a lot more careful where I put it!! lol

And, I used it today, as today was a wood splitting day, and I split quite a bit of wood, along with some bigger rounds,

as always, everything gets pushed through the 4-way,

This was the biggest round of the day,

To get it down to the size splits I wanted, it had to go through the 4-way, three times,

I'm going to have to cut some more, S N!

SR

 

[chipper1]

It sure has been some great wood gathering/splitting weather.
Here's a bit of what we got this week, lots more rubbish burnt and the woodsplitting area all cleaned up.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Nice pile chipper!

I still have to go out with buckets and pick up the "kindling" from around where I was splitting... That stuff is perfect, for fire starting!

SR