Found this while logging yesterday. It was under 6 inches of top soil. The very top of it became exposed after felling a tree. It's pretty cool to think however many decades ago someone was right there cutting the same land I was.
Pretty cool find
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Sorry slowp, I was hoping you wouldn't see that. Your one in a million!
Honestly, I have no clue haha. I'm going to say 100 years old cause it sounds cool
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i have found a few axe heads and wedges and one 4' circular mill blade. no crosscuts.......they prolly rusted away here.
that circular blade must have been cool. I cant tell if this saw was a one man or if im missing half of a two man saw
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looks like maybe the end got broke off..........
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Wow the round saw is sweet as is the cross cut nice find !!
Reading in this forum is kind of interesting I perused it last night and saw your pictures. It tends to appear a little more adult here,.. course I suppose looks could be deceiving. Ha Ha.
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lol, yea Jeff it normally don't get to stupid in here........plenty of mature folks here that wouldn't put up with stupid.........
Yes seems to be !
I just cut fire wood mostly,.. about 6 cord per year. I have also cut a lot of logs for lumber and built an addition and 2-3 out buildings and a Pole barn with that lumber over the years. I own 70 acres about 65 of which are wooded. I don't do the kind of logging you folks do I use a Kubota and Farmi winch and some old Partner 500s and 5000s. I am always on the look out for felling advice and wedging trees over ect. I think there are probably more woods related deaths from people in my category than yours, Mostly because we don't do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I cut alone and am always a careful as possible but whenever I can I try to learn something I may not know a lot about.
Like I said I cut mostly Firewood Beach, Rock Maple, Yellow Birch. As of late I have been rehabbing an old woods road that my Grandfather put in 60-70 years ago. I have been doing a lot of ditching and putting in culverts moving rocks ect. I have a 30 hp Kubota with a Woods backhoe with sub frame. It is small... tiny by lg equipment standards but I tell you what I have made some large improvements over the last few years with it out in the woods. So that is me, and I like to sit here in the evenings and read about the big jobs that go on in the rest of the country done by loggers like yourselves. Jeff
I just cut fire wood mostly,.. about 6 cord per year. I have also cut a lot of logs for lumber and built an addition and 2-3 out buildings and a Pole barn with that lumber over the years. I own 70 acres about 65 of which are wooded. I don't do the kind of logging you folks do I use a Kubota and Farmi winch and some old Partner 500s and 5000s. I am always on the look out for felling advice and wedging trees over ect. I think there are probably more woods related deaths from people in my category than yours, Mostly because we don't do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week. I cut alone and am always a careful as possible but whenever I can I try to learn something I may not know a lot about.
Like I said I cut mostly Firewood Beach, Rock Maple, Yellow Birch. As of late I have been rehabbing an old woods road that my Grandfather put in 60-70 years ago. I have been doing a lot of ditching and putting in culverts moving rocks ect. I have a 30 hp Kubota with a Woods backhoe with sub frame. It is small... tiny by lg equipment standards but I tell you what I have made some large improvements over the last few years with it out in the woods. So that is me, and I like to sit here in the evenings and read about the big jobs that go on in the rest of the country done by loggers like yourselves. Jeff
Well I do do it commercially but not full time. Like you I use a tractor and winch. 43 horse with a 9000 pound fransgard. I do lots of smaller jobs that aren't worth the big guys time. It's a great way to earn some extra income, I'm hoping to do it full time someday
Good I hope it works out for ya. I have the mind of a 20 year old but my body don't match ha ha
