Wood Week 09 Family and Chainsaws and Log Arches Vol 1

[Rowan]

Just home for the night and thought I would post some pics of my trip so far...

My dad, uncle and I do this yearly... We take damaged/dying tree's from the families land for firewood.

These are the trees we target...

This is how we get them out (ATV's & log arches)....

This old Oak is coming down this year, 30 - 36" diameter at chest height.

 

[mercer_me]

How much land do you own? It looks like a nice peice of land.

 

[Rowan]

Will post more pics later....

I'll be heading back up tomorrow morning.... Had to help my wife with something tonight....

This is the view from the cottage...

Here's a 18 - 20 inch Ash that's hung up on a rock.. still solid.

And the wood pile grows....

Cheers.... I'll be back in the bush tomorrow, then home again at the end of the weekend.

 

[Rowan]

Re:

How much land do you own? It looks like a nice peice of land.

200 acres

 

[mercer_me]

200 acres

That's alot of land I sold my 150 acre lot last year. I now own 11 acres at my house, a 10 acre wood lot, and a 45 acre wood lot/sand pit.

 

[Rowan]

A few more target trees..

Yellow Birch just off the trail...

They don't call this area the highlands for nothing... This hill changes 600 ft in elevation from this point. I, know that's nothing for the PNW folks, but for our area these are some serious hills.

A few other target trees...

 

[CharlieG]

Dont you just love ATVs for gettin wood

 

[thombat4]

Now that's the life..!

Thanks for the pics...! Would love to live out in such crowded conditions

 

[Rowan]

Where to start??

I'm back from my trip... I've got a lot of pics. Not really sure how best to go about this;

By date,
By tree,
By activity (Felling, skidding, bucking),
Woodpile growing over the week,
Landscape,

They are going to be pic heavy posts so I'm thinking of moving over to the picture forum. Possibly multiple posts with links to each other so people with dial-up can view it.

Let me know, I'll be shrinking pics tonight and intend to get a few posts up so let me know what you want to see.

 

[HuskyMike]

What size ATV's are those? I have skidded trees with my 500cc but no arch.
Nice cutting and land! you are lucky to have such a nice "little" piece of property.

 

[Brian VT]

Dont you just love ATVs for gettin wood

This is my 1st year cutting firewood so I don't know squat. I've been bucking everything where it lies and hauling it out in a trailer. If I had a power splitter I think I'd probably be splitting it in the woods too. So I gotta ask...why haul long lengths out of the woods if it's gonna get chopped up for firewood ?
Cool post Rowan. It sounds like a great time with family and friends.

 

[Rowan]

Everyone has there ways.....

Brian,

We collect the families wood (7 - 10 full cord) over one week. Then split the wood over another weekend. The terrain is very hilly/rocky with narrow trails.... trailering would be hard. The distances are long so multiple trips can eat up a lot of time. For us moving splitter around to each tree would take up a lot of time and effort.

Everyone has their preferences. The geography plays a big factor.

Its a good excuse for all of us to get together.


Regarding the size of the ATV's.... small, Dad's is 300cc (350 maybe?), My uncle's is 100 cc more.

Here's a link to the woodpile growing...

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=98656

This is my 1st year cutting firewood so I don't know squat. I've been bucking everything where it lies and hauling it out in a trailer. If I had a power splitter I think I'd probably be splitting it in the woods too. So I gotta ask...why haul long lengths out of the woods if it's gonna get chopped up for firewood ?
Cool post Rowan. It sounds like a great time with family and friends.

 

[Rowan]

Link Page:

Link to growing woodpile is above:

Link to Bucking Shots:

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=98663

Link to Skidding Shots:

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=98678

 

[Rowan]

Link to Felling

Link to Felling vol 1:http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=99008

Link to Felling vol 2:http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=99178

Link to Felling vol 3: http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=99182

Link to Felling vol 4: http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=99189

Multi tread post.....

I think this is the end.

Enjoy!

 

[Rowan]

I lied its not the end.... this is the end.

Ok this is it....

I'm pretty sure this time....

Here is a link to Woodland Flowers and Cool Scenery:http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=99567

 

[Rowan]

video of skidding and big oak going over.

Check out link to Felling vol3 for the big oak going over (still processing at 1:45am, hopefully it will complete soon).

The link for Skidding Shots has a video link now too.

 

[Rowan]

excited.... this years trip starts tomorrow.

Anxiously awaiting the end of the day. I'm heading out for this years trip tonight.

 

[Phatsupratt]

Regarding your Log Arches, is the mud collected on the log as you drag it a big deal? I've been thinking about making one but I'm concerned about dulling my chains after one cut!

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Beefie]

Rowan glad to see you back, I enjoyed your pics from last year and can't wait to see this years.


Beefie

 

[mhyme71]

Without a doubt the best post ever!! Love the woods the family the saws and the atv skidding especially!! nice job dude