I Went To The Woods Yesterday

[Sawyer Rob]

It was 95 here yesterday! lol AND, my helper came over, so off we went to the woods!

I had walked in a week or so ago and found a few white pine i wanted to cut out,

FIRST, we had to cut a road into them and we did that first thing in the morning,

And then with the heat of the day upon us, i only cut one of them down,

I sawed out two 16'-6" logs and one 8 footer. I'll mill a couple 6" x 8's out of the 8 footer to put lumber on. Now the skidding begins,

And i had to skid down a VERY steep hill, (even in 4WD, my tractor couldn't climb this hill, so i had to go waaaaay around to get back on top for each "skid")

to get to my "log hauling" running gear. WOW, we had no idea how hot it was until we got out of the woods and into the sun!!

Once loaded, we still had to go up "sugar sand hill" to get to the road and the tractor spun all 4 wheels all the way to the top of the hill!

Finally we were on out to the road, with our two big logs and a little firewood,

Takeing them to the BSM, where we will mill them into lumber soon!

Hope you like the picts!

SR

 

[mtngun]

Great pics. Looks like fun if it weren't so hot. :msp_w00t:

 

[Dave Boyt]

Spin all four wheels on that tractor, and you're doing some serious pulling! Nice log. What are your plans for the lumber? Always seems that even if I make it out to the woods with my camera, I never think to take pictures. I appreciate your post!

 

[Boomhower]

It was 95 here yesterday! lol AND, my helper came over, so off we went to the woods!

I had walked in a week or so ago and found a few white pine i wanted to cut out,

FIRST, we had to cut a road into them and we did that first thing in the morning,

And then with the heat of the day upon us, i only cut one of them down,

I sawed out two 16'-6" logs and one 8 footer. I'll mill a couple 6" x 8's out of the 8 footer to put lumber on. Now the skidding begins,

And i had to skid down a VERY steep hill, (even in 4WD, my tractor couldn't climb this hill, so i had to go waaaaay around to get back on top for each "skid")

to get to my "log hauling" running gear. WOW, we had no idea how hot it was until we got out of the woods and into the sun!!

Once loaded, we still had to go up "sugar sand hill" to get to the road and the tractor spun all 4 wheels all the way to the top of the hill!

Finally we were on out to the road, with our two big logs and a little firewood,

Takeing them to the BSM, where we will mill them into lumber soon!

Hope you like the picts!

SR

Great pictures...what brand grapple is that?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Glad ya liked the picts.!

I've been working on a LONG materials list, and i need (2) more 2x12's out of that bottom log, and after that i'll be targetting 3x8-16's, as i need (55) more of those. All side lumber will be random 5/4...

My grabble is made by ALO, same as the loader. I could have built one cheaper than buying... BUT, the way i look at it, i wouldn't have bought all new steel, so that means using what you find. When you do that, you either end up with something heavy or not strong enough, and as you have to lift the weight of the grabble every time you lift something, and you just know it will get abused!! I just didn't want to lower the amount my loader would pick up, and i didn't want to be fixing it either!

Buying one designed for my loader, and designed/sized properly, AND made super STRONG, made it worth what it cost me. I'll have it the rest of my life, so why not have it RIGHT? I moaned about the $$ when i bought it, but now all these years later it was worth what it cost! lol

SR

 

[rwoods]

Great pictures. I'm glad that butt log didn't get away from you on the downhill side -wouldn't been pretty. Be safe and enjoy your trips to come. Ron

 

[mikeb1079]

great post rob thanks. i enjoy your posts.

and yes it is crazy hot.

 

[Boomhower]

Glad ya liked the picts.!

I've been working on a LONG materials list, and i need (2) more 2x12's out of that bottom log, and after that i'll be targetting 3x8-16's, as i need (55) more of those. All side lumber will be random 5/4...

My grabble is made by ALO, same as the loader. I could have built one cheaper than buying... BUT, the way i look at it, i wouldn't have bought all new steel, so that means using what you find. When you do that, you either end up with something heavy or not strong enough, and as you have to lift the weight of the grabble every time you lift something, and you just know it will get abused!! I just didn't want to lower the amount my loader would pick up, and i didn't want to be fixing it either!

Buying one designed for my loader, and designed/sized properly, AND made super STRONG, made it worth what it cost me. I'll have it the rest of my life, so why not have it RIGHT? I moaned about the $$ when i bought it, but now all these years later it was worth what it cost! lol

SR

Nice tractor n loader. Been looking at Frontier brand root grapples for my Deere and they r $$$. Great pictures!

 

[BobL]

Nice pics - thanks for posting.
Even though it's 95 it all still looks nice and green.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, it cooled off some, it only got up to 89* yesterday! lol

An arborist friend brought me some logs a few days ago, so i started out with the FREE log, second from the right in this pict., a very nice blk. spruce,

and i got some pretty nice 2x6's and 2x10's out of it, for myself!

Then i moved on to the white pine i logged the other day, here's one of those two 16 footers,

I "wanted to" get TWO 2x12's out of the "side" lumber, then mill the rest into 3x8's, but i could only comfortably get one 2x12 along with some 5/4,

I ended up with a "miscut" that i threw under the forks, but that will used builting a goat feeder a friend asked me to help him build,

Anyway, here's what i got out of "this" log, 3x8's, 5/4 boards and one 2x12...

And here's all the lumber i milled, loaded on my wagon, mine on the right and my customer friends on the left,

Well, i'm chipping away at the materials list i have to fill, and it's been one loooooong list!!

SR

 

[mikeb1079]

thanks again for the nice pix rob. you've got a nice system down! if you don't mind me asking, about where in the midwest are you at?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thanks for the kind words Mike,

If you swim across the big lake, you will be pretty close to my place. lol

SR

 

[Oneday]

Thanks for the photos SR. Looks like your had an enjoyable time and good weather. Here in the UK we had a drought until April then the water company banned hoses and its not stopped raining since.

Oneday