The Farm Tractor in the Woodlot

[Dennis Cahoon]

Here's Ron bucking the butt off....that's a 372 with a 32" bar. We got 5, 10' saw logs. The top and limbs I'll give to Dennis Harvey for carving blocks and the rest I'll use for fire wood. The brush will be burned.

 

[belgian]

Here we are at the sawmill. I found a local sawyer, he's an engineer, but is that a good thing?
John

Hey John, I'm sure it is.

nice pictures, as always. It always amazes me how straight your tree cuts/logs are. I never seem to manage myself, how good I try.
take care,
Roland

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Unless your a "total idiot" there's absolurely NO WAY you can tip my tractor over backwards..... It's far from an old style tractor with no weight in the front.... There's NO WAY a log can roll off my forks onto me either as i "grabble" them....

Anyway, for the most part, i skid logs as little as possible, as i don't want to have those dirty SOB's on my mill.... I hate haveing to wire brush them to get the dirt off the face.

Rob

 

[woodfarmer]

sawyer

who peed in your corn flakes, usually your fairly mellow. usually its the pulling that tips a tractor over backwards or lifting too heavy a load too high, i wish i had one of those grapples for my loader.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

who peed in your corn flakes, usually your fairly mellow.

I don't know, but when i find them i'm going to cut there P'er off with my chainsaw!!

Rob

 

[Gypo Logger]

Good thread, Lol. Thanks for dragging it back up.
John

 

[Lakeside53]

ok, help me out, What is that in the middle of the log?

 

[Rotax Robert]

Lake, it is called an ESS. What it supposed to do is make the wood esspecialy hard to split should some woodtick swing by and steal your log.
They are very hard to get into the tree so you have to place it early in the trees life near the roots. Hope this helps.

Rotax Robert

 

[Urbicide]

Lake, it is called an ESS. What it supposed to do is make the wood esspecialy hard to split should some woodtick swing by and steal your log.
They are very hard to get into the tree so you have to place it early in the trees life near the roots. Hope this helps.

Rotax Robert

:hmm3grin2orange:See this thread, posts #8 and #9.

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=36729

 

[SWE#Kipp]

Lake, it is called an ESS. What it supposed to do is make the wood esspecialy hard to split should some woodtick swing by and steal your log.
They are very hard to get into the tree so you have to place it early in the trees life near the roots. Hope this helps.

Rotax Robert

good one

 

[Gypo Logger]

I was just wondering how you fellas were making out and if you got the timber down and out yet?
John

 

[Lakeside53]

Lake, it is called an ESS. What it supposed to do is make the wood esspecialy hard to split should some woodtick swing by and steal your log.
They are very hard to get into the tree so you have to place it early in the trees life near the roots. Hope this helps.

Rotax Robert

hmmmm:monkey:

 

[Gypo Logger]

This is a whole lot of fun and I hope to have a steady diet of it all winter.
I wish I had someone to help me, but alas, it's hard to find good help over the net.
John

 

[sawinredneck]

Be out there to help in a heartbeat John, but it's a bit of a drive for me
Andy

 

[Gypo Logger]

hmmmm:monkey:

Hi Lakeside, the 'S' irons keep the end grain from checking. Sometimes they use plastic as the iron can stain the wood, especialy species like Oak that contain alot of tanin.
John

 

[Lakeside53]

Thanks. Urbicide also linked me to the same answer. Must be a hardwood thing. Make's sense though.

 

[JimL]

you get some new tires on the Kubota?
They look wider than in the other pics.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Be out there to help in a heartbeat John, but it's a bit of a drive for me
Andy

Thanks for the offer Andy, however, I've worked so long alone in the woods we'd probably kill each other.
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

you get some new tires on the Kubota?
They look wider than in the other pics.

Same tires Jim, it's probably just the fisheye effect of the 12mm lens I used.
I moved to another bush today and will keep the tractor on the landing for sorting and piling and use the 540 JD to pump another 5000 or so stems off 250 acres I just aquired.opcorn:
John

 

[Gypo Logger]

Be out there to help in a heartbeat John, but it's a bit of a drive for me
Andy

Thanks for the offer Andy, however, I've worked so long alone in the woods we'd probably kill each other.
John