Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[KiwiBro]

So many jobs I can't keep up! I thought this was the job too far away to drive the tractor to.

You know, this one time, at band camp, cutting twigs like that and not being able to drive the tractor up to the pile to pick up a pile at a time in the forks (with grab), I made up two dozen 'synthetic chokers' from an old 1/2" rope. There are 6 chain choker sliders on my winch cable. Was choking four twigs with the synthetic chokers, threading a chain choker through those then choking the chain to a twig also, hook it up to a slider and rinse and repeat another 5 times (or until run out of chokers). Then drag 20+ logs at once with the winch. Unhooking all the logs at the top of the hill was a bit like playing pick-up-sticks.

I wonder if I could have strapped a whole pile really tight and tried winching the whole lot without scattering logs all the way up the hill face.

 

[cantoo]

Went to the plowing match this morning. My grandson was checking out the Husky's, this one is comparable to the Stihl MS 170. When we got home I made the mistake of deciding to go back to the bush to get a few cedar trees. Was a little warm here but at least there was full sun and no wind. I thought I could cut 4 or 5 trees down quick and be back home to set them up for the sawmill in the morning. Oh yeah cutting cedar trees down, million branches, get hung up on everything because of the branches and the cedar bush is tight and I wanted them tree length so I could cut them later. Pretty near died from the heat and only got 4 trees home and had to drive in the dark.

 

[Haywire]

39°, burning spruce. All is well.

 

[Hobo Hilton]

A lady had been trying to sell a pile of logs. I left a message that said "After you figure out no one is buying, let me know and I'll haul them away for free"... Two months later she emails me "They are yours, come and get them"... Of course she waited for the rain to start.... LOL... It was a good day.

 

[Relex]

I got a cutting permit for the state forest near me. I was heading up the mt where I was cutting last year when I stumbled across what I think was a nice sized oak that at one point in time fell across the power line.

The power company put up a new pole and this stuff was 10 feet from the road so I couldn't pass it up.

My new to me 372xp put in some work and it was a major upgrade from my 455 Rancher.

 

[abbott295]

Hmmm. The bark looks consistent with red oak, but I would expect the center to be a bit darker, redder. I can't tell if I can see opposite branching in the one picture. That bark could be consistent with sugar maple too. Not bad either way.

 

[dancan]

Well

I have plenty of black spruce fence posts lol

 

[KiwiBro]

Gotta be happy with that.
Seeing as you have your tractor on the job, how about one of these ;-)
Just park your trailer/s alongside.

 

[Philbert]

If that's not the cat's . . .!

Looks like it's wagging it's tail!

Happy tractor!

Commercial model or home made?

Philbert

 

[dancan]

I'd love to have a Hypro Kiwi , it fits with what I do lol

 

[woodchip rookie]

Shooo....my poulan will cut that fast.

 

[KiwiBro]

If that's not the cat's . . .!

Looks like it's wagging it's tail!

Happy tractor!

Commercial model or home made?

Philbert

Commercial. Very; their cheapest starts at around US$30k, unfortunately.

 

[Philbert]

Hard to see on my small phone screen. Now I see that it is 'processing' a whole tree, stripping the lambs, and cutting to length (CTL). But not splitting.

Philbert

 

[KiwiBro]

Hard to see on my small phone screen. Now I see that it is 'processing' a whole tree, stripping the lambs, and cutting to length (CTL). But not splitting.

Philbert

There's another crowd, in Finland I think, that specialises in harvesting/processing machinery for small trees of the like the Dansta mows through. They have tractor mounted harvesting heads on a crane that are also stroke delimbers, that use a guillotine blade rather than chainsaw. Pretty cool to have it all on one bit of kit, that is a small scale CTL machine. The same bit of kit mechanically fells the tree, delimbs, bucks (and knives can be bolted to the guillotine blade to split as it shears). So, the one machine takes it from standing tree to split firewood.

Could also mount it to a small excavator. Might be better than a tractor.

 

[Flint Mitch]

Nice roadsides scrounge. About 70% ash and the rest oak

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[Jeffkrib]

Very quiet in here so I've got some big news to report........ I'm packing away the wood from inside the house for the year. Wood burning season is over In my part of the world. Will also give the hearth its annual scrub and clean.

 

[JustJeff]

Well it isn't quite wood burning time here yet. Record heat for the last 5 days. Breaking 50 year records. Took a couple of the kids to the beach tonight for a nice refreshing swim. On the way home one of my farmer friends called and he had a couple trees he wants gone. So I guess I'll swap my swimsuit for my scrounge suit! Don't know what he's got but free is free.

 

[farmer steve]

paging @dancan. https://altoona.craigslist.org/for/d/spruce-logs/6276274247.html

 

[LondonNeil]

It is quiet isn't it. @Cowboy254 was making the thread busy with his tales of lady farms (err, that's not quite right err, oh you know). But now it's just @dancan keeping us ticking over.

I have been slow last month. After a push since April I'm 3 years ahead for myself but I'm intending to keep going while I have a little space left to stack, cutting for my parents. Need to contact my wood guy again, he had nothing for me last time I checked in.

 

[MustangMike]

Been very busy cutting the last 2 days, Black Birch, Black Cherry, Apple & Red Maple (Felling, limbing, bucking) at 2 different locations.