Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area

[Backyard Lumberjack]

There are over 100 different species of oak native to North America. Around here bur oak is pretty common. It is a member of the white oak family.
Acorns

Leaf

dang! live n learn!! I have never seen an acorn that looked like that until today... thankx

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

View attachment 486510 View attachment 486511 View attachment 486512 Behind the eight ball right now for this summers camping bundles! Need to get started, but haven't finished the house project yet. Have about 40 pickup loads here, will have to wait until processed for an exact cord count.

looks like 'warms you twice wood'... once when u split it, and once when u burn it!!

 

[T. Mainus]

oic; those are the 'small' rounds, eh?? lol. never heard of burr oak. guess there are many kinds. red, white, water, post... are names of oak more familiar to me. nice splitter w/catcher!... but it's your tractor that catches my eye... looks like it can do a lot of work... but with chains? a tractor with chains??....

oh my! now that... makes a statement!!!

we see a lot of tractors down here, but never seen one with chains!

oh my! now that does... make a statement!!!

Being from south Texas I can't imagine you ever have frozen ground/ice to deal with. Seeing that the tractor is not 4 wheel drive, it is pretty much useless in the winter without the tire chains on it.

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Being from south Texas I can't imagine you ever have frozen ground/ice to deal with. Seeing that the tractor is not 4 wheel drive, it is pretty much useless in the winter without the tire chains on it.

actually, I liked the chain set up!

believe it or not, i have bot chains down here before. they had to order my size in. but i had to pay for them first! lol [wonder why?]... and when i got home with them i jacked up my car and fit each to my tires. prefect fit. with tighenenrs installed. i was heading skiing. and being from the PNW - i knew if i hit snow, [driving] i would regret no chains. and i dint want no loose ends damage!! clank-clank-clank! so i went prepared. think they cost me about $26.00 for the pair then. course, got laffed at! lol... "don't sell a lot of chains here, ya know....!"maybe a bit less. sure as its cold in the mountains in February, hit snow! i just laid out chains, drove over, wrapped up to lock, added tighteners... did other side... and Vilola!!! "back on the road again!"

perfect fit. i still have the chains!

 

[Plowboy83]

The next project for me to get done before I got to plant tomatoes think I'll start on the eucalyptus this weekend if it doesn't get to wet tomorrow night from the rain

 

[zogger]

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The next project for me to get done before I got to plant tomatoes think I'll start on the eucalyptus this weekend if it doesn't get to wet tomorrow night from the rain

That whole line? Quite a bit of wood there!

Tomatoes, ha, we have a dozen small ones going in a window right now...

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

That whole line? Quite a bit of wood there! Tomatoes, ha, we have a dozen small ones going in a window right now...

my thoughts, too! whole line? is that good firewood? I only remember eucalyptus oil by that name as in spas... vapors, etc. same stuff... then...

there is the field! - wow - all tomatoes?? I have only seen one field that size of just tomatoes... in McComb, OH. tomatoes as far as the eye could see... seeing your 'field' I have a better idea about your profile name! nice pix... hope u post up more of taking down the line... what is on other side? more tomato rows... ? those are some nice raised beds too.

 

[Plowboy83]

Thanks guys the field I'm standing in is a 25 acre field that butts up to the field behind my house the nieghboor was selling it this last summer so I bought it came with 2 rentals houses put the field in drip and tied it into the 20 acres behind my house made a nice square 45 acre field that will be planted into tomatoes in mid April there is about 5600 plants per acre . The eucalyptus burns really good a lot better than almond and oak that are grown around here. I have been selling eucalyptus firewood for 300 a cord and the almond for 200 most people prefer it over the almond and other stuff I'll post pics when Im cutting not sure how many cord I will get out of it. I'll get you some some pics of that 60 cords I took out last year never remember when I'm out at the shop sorry backyard lumberjack Ill get on it

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

Thanks guys the field I'm standing in is a 25 acre field that butts up to the field behind my house the nieghboor was selling it this last summer so I bought it came with 2 rentals houses put the field in drip and tied it into the 20 acres behind my house made a nice square 45 acre field that will be planted into tomatoes in mid April there is about 5600 plants per acre . The eucalyptus burns really good a lot better than almond and oak that are grown around here. I have been selling eucalyptus firewood for 300 a cord and the almond for 200 most people prefer it over the almond and other stuff I'll post pics when Im cutting not sure how many cord I will get out of it. I'll get you some some pics of that 60 cords I took out last year never remember when I'm out at the shop sorry backyard lumberjack Ill get on it

> will be planted into tomatoes in mid April there is about 5600 plants per acre .

GGzzz... 5600 plants, and that is just... per acre! omg! shore is a lot of 'matters? what kind? who do u sell to? Heinz? surely, not a roadside stand! lol... "Tomatoes: $1.00 per basket. take what you want, drop $1.00 per basket in box! thank you." lol. 45 acres - 'maters! 252,000 plants.... at 20 tomatoes per plant maybe more, maybe less... that would be a mere 5,000,000 + tomatoes!

tomato sandwiches, anyone?....




imo, there would be some serious contenders for 'most cords in one pix' here on the AS, but doubt anyone would have 5,000,000 stix? if 50 pper cord (merely a guess) why, omg! that is 20,000 cords!!

anybody seen more than 20,000 cords of stacked firewood here on the AS?

 

[Oldman47]

In CA tomatoes are a fairly common row crop. It takes a lot of labor to harvest, which I am sure is a large part of the "per acre" invested in the crop. As Plowboy said the planting happens in the early spring and harvest comes before things really get hot in summer. When I lived there, tomato fields were rather common in Orange County but I doubt there are any farms there today the way the county has grown and expanded its population. My bet is sales go to a local elevator type operation although I was just a casual observer when I lived there. The ultimate sale to a wholesaler would be conducted by that elevator type operation, not the guy with the crop.
I never expected to own enough land to farm anything at the time I lived in SoCal. My first introduction to cropping was about 15 years later when I was living in an area where I could actually afford to buy some ground. That location was basically only good for corn or soybeans so I never really thought about the costs involved in tomatoes until today.

 

[Philbert]

45 acres - 'maters! 252,000 plants.... at 20 tomatoes per plant maybe more, maybe less... that would be a mere 5,000,000 + tomatoes!

It takes a lot of labor to harvest . . .

If he falls behind harvesting, it will be hard for the rest of us to ketchup!

Philbert

 

[Plowboy83]

Most of the tomatoes grown are from California not sure what percent it is now but roughly 300,000 acres. The cost per acre is between 2500 and 3000 bucks an acre depending on insect pressure and fertilizer cost. When planted in mid April you have a lot better chance of not having the crop rained on. April planting a will be harvested in the end of August to early September. The average yield arounf here in Fresno county is around 55 tons with some fields raley making it to 80 tons. We contract the tomatoes to the canary by tons per acre. Contracts are usually 50 tons acre. From there the make ketchup and all the other junk.
The cost of ground has sky rocketed around here the last 10 years selling for over 20 grand an acre. Wish I could afford to buy more ground but just way to hard at my age (32) starting a family. Maybe in the further still got time. Most farm land around here is being night up by the big corporations the farm almonds.

 

[Oldman47]

Sounds like you are using a mechanical harvester of some kind. What I saw in SoCal was being hand picked and was probably for table use.

 

[Plowboy83]

Sounds like you are using a mechanical harvester of some kind. What I saw in SoCal was being hand picked and was probably for table use.

Yes sir you are right thought I had some pictures of the harvesting the tomatoes but don't only have pictures of the cotton picker

 

[Plowboy83]

 

[Plowboy83]

Got some wood cut out today me and my buddy cut for a couple hours this morning and this afternoon and the wife and girls showed up to load wood

 

[treebilly]

Is that a euc? Don't have them around here so I'm guessing

 

[ri chevy]

Looks like you had some help! Nice. A family of helpers.

 

[Plowboy83]

Looks like you had some help! Nice. A family of helpers.

Yeah it was a really beutiful day out here weather it was in mid 70's and the family was out to help couldn't ask for more the older daughter is a wood loading little rascal lol

 

[Plowboy83]

Is that a euc? Don't have them around here so I'm guessing

Yeah that's eucalyptus got about 500 ft of them to remove