Post pictures of your woodpile/splitting area
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amberg
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amberg
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Now, That is how to do firewood.
VF - ?? no descriptions, text or sidebars... is that your ops, etc? trucks and logs? nice pix. am thinking its ur ops up there in AK! ? your yard is where your home is? I like the set up and equipment. any pix of splitting and CSS?...
Don't have any pictures of my pile or splitting area but I do have some pictures from the woods.
This:
Which is this:
Became this:
I normally wouldn't go through the effort of stacking that but I just plain wanted to see it for curiosity sake. Bar is two foot long and my truck is parked behind it. Pile still looks smaller than I was expecting though.
Great pics! That is the kind of cutting I like - just walk along cutting rounds off a log that is off the ground.
Did they try to stand back up? At least they look likeit was a blow down with roots still attached.
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
I'm not sure how to make text with pictures, it takes a long time to load those, like 5-10 mins a picture.
My house is down the road a little bit. That place is my friend's land, couple houses and the shop there, it's around 5 acres I believe.
Friend's log truck.
Yeah logs are ours. Came from land clearing for houses as well as a timber sale we just wrapped up. Still hauling logs from the timber sale, have another ~100 cords on the deck still. About 275-300 cords in the pile in the pics. Between that pile and what's in the woods it's about a year's worth of wood. Have a few other piles of spruce and poplar too. That one is all birch (prime stuff for here)
Lot of the logs are hollow at the butt, the State Forest Circus IMO waits too long for put timber sales up and that's what happens to birch when it's getting old. It's still fine for firewood though, and usually after 3-4ft it's solid. Keep in mind they are cut as close as possible to the ground too since we use a feller buncher.
My house is down the road a little bit. That place is my friend's land, couple houses and the shop there, it's around 5 acres I believe.
Friend's log truck.
Yeah logs are ours. Came from land clearing for houses as well as a timber sale we just wrapped up. Still hauling logs from the timber sale, have another ~100 cords on the deck still. About 275-300 cords in the pile in the pics. Between that pile and what's in the woods it's about a year's worth of wood. Have a few other piles of spruce and poplar too. That one is all birch (prime stuff for here)
Lot of the logs are hollow at the butt, the State Forest Circus IMO waits too long for put timber sales up and that's what happens to birch when it's getting old. It's still fine for firewood though, and usually after 3-4ft it's solid. Keep in mind they are cut as close as possible to the ground too since we use a feller buncher.
quite an impressive ops, there VF! thousands of cords! genie AK stuff! good foto essay.
don't know if it will help, try typing ur text first in new message box, or in the one that opens after you select Reply. then Upload a File. (pix). like u did here in ur comments I am quoting.
DSW
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That's God's workbench. Sometimes he rolls it out for ya.
Those didn't raise up but I had a red oak pop back into place. It waited until I had it to stump height though. Very kind of it. I've seen em get talkative before.
That's God's workbench. Sometimes he rolls it out for ya.
Those didn't raise up but I had a red oak pop back into place. It waited until I had it to stump height though. Very kind of it. I've seen em get talkative before.
Oh yeah! I had one do that when I was cutting in a locust grove. I had cut a blow down a few days before and was working on another tree right beside the stump when it stood up. About peed my pants as I thought all hte noise was from another tree falling on me.
Woodyjiw
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Finally took the time to clean up my processing area a little, had to free up more room.
Before
After
I have lots of room for more wood!!
I have lots of room for more wood!!
lol, must be a virus, huh amberg? I can relate.... lol
amberg
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I agree, Had to fix the electric on the baler just today, Again, ( S.O.B. )
my two wheel wheelbarrow... 10 cu ft... suddenly rolls all but like on a flat tire.!
airs hard, then 2 mins later soft. so remove, and ck in water tub... no air leaks! 
so keep looking, seems rim hole for stem when upset... left sharp edge, so tube's valve stem got cut thru... . so time to start sourcing. don't like any prices I read or hear. new wheel/tire/tube $15.00 at H Fgt. keep calling around... find tire store just few blocks over... sure, we can have it here tomorrow and do it, too. cost? tube:$5 and to change it out: $2. OK!..... lol... so that is on the agenda for Friday... etc. always something. yes, given I had a tire repair requirement... yes, I liked that price! lol
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Yeah the labor and costs only go up when working with big iron. Just put about 4000 into the undercarriage of the buncher and that's "cheap". New pads, chains, rollers, sprickets, etc (complete undercarriage) is about $55k. We just rebuilt the track adjuster and a new idler wheel and spring on 1 side. Not fun, the spring and wheel was about 1300lbs.
a switch? wiring? contact point? lever?.... tractor to baler? what function? why did u have to redo it... Again?
that bencher is quite a machine! if a new undercarriage is 55K I can just image what they cost new! well, actually...I can't! lol
guess u guys did the rework/servicing 'inhouse!' ? how many hours on your belcher when u had to do this work? is this the first time? u got any pix of it all apart?... $2.00 labor to swap out the tube is pretty cheap! actually, kinda hard to believe...
ChoppyChoppy
Tree Freak
Pictures on here somewhere I think. Take so long to load pictures, 10-15 mins each.
New around 200-400k depending on model.
Not sure on hrs enough that it's on its 2nd engine. About 20k for that.
New around 200-400k depending on model.
Not sure on hrs enough that it's on its 2nd engine. About 20k for that.
like an airplane engine... new 172 for example... 30K! +/-... well, should u get a chance maybe one of the under carriage all apart would be cool... at your convenience...
amberg
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Plug from tractor to baler had a bad connection, Patched it up with electrical tape.
