Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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Your 3930 is 2WD?
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4WD will make a big difference.
My loader is 4WD, I’m thinking of getting a No Spin differential for the rear. That’ll give it power to both rear wheels, instead of just one. Here’s a view of the front axle.
My loader is 4WD, I’m thinking of getting a No Spin differential for the rear. That’ll give it power to both rear wheels, instead of just one. Here’s a view of the front axle.
I'm glad he posted it, but I'm in agreement with FS that it looked like Mulberry … but he has far more experience with it that I do.
Oak usually holds up quite well, it is not a fast rotting wood.
Oak usually holds up quite well, it is not a fast rotting wood.
I 3rd it lol.
Some hard core snob wood there, nice score
.You need to get him a measuring stick
.I was thinking about that today cutting up some 3.5' locust logs today
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Nice!
My 3930 has a diff lock for the rear end. It’s a pedal you push with your right heal.
I go to Miller mod saws. Huskihl is also a good guy.
Wait....what....? He said he doesn’t want to do it.?
I like kevin
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That's a big pe can
How'd you get it on there.
This is their mini-skid steer. It is impressive what it can lift.
https://www.ditchwitch.com/stand-on-skid-steers/mini-skid-steers/sk1550
So it can lift 1,558 lbs.
After a couple of rest days due to rain and a lunch that was every bit as good as @svk 's (2 minute noodles, chicken flavour ), I went back out to the farm to put the hurt on those remaining blue gum rounds. The smaller ones ~ 28 inches split quite well with motivated swings with the X27.
It got harder as I worked down to the bigger rounds. One round took 40 hits to halve. I went mad dog on it with two lots of 20 hits in a flurry, as hard and fast as I could before I needed a breather. Sure, I could have noodled them but sometimes the red mist comes down and I swear I will bash it to death before I quit. Does that happen to anyone else or is it just me?
Got there in the end.
10 rounds worth on the right, 4 (smaller ones) on the left.
Found some wire in there, fortunately with the Fiskars, not Limby.
Loaded up the danger ranger. Three of the four rows were from the four rounds split last Wednesday, so my guess is there is close to three cubes all up (just short of a cord).
Then there was this guy.
This is from the same tree. Mitch had initially planned to get his neighbour to mill all of the blue gum but eventually changed his mind so now it is firewood. I put 10 cuts in the bigger end but touched dirt which didn't help the situation. The log is lying in a soft spot and has subsided a bit which makes it impossible to cut through without cutting dirt. Since the chain was already dull, I cut through in two spots at 4 round intervals, rolled them with the timberjack and separated the rounds (no pic of that, sorry @H-Ranch ).
Not a bad afternoon, I should be able to get out there again tomorrow and finish cutting up this log. Splitting is going to get harder as there are a few bumps, bends and branch stubs but we'll see how we go.
), I went back out to the farm to put the hurt on those remaining blue gum rounds. The smaller ones ~ 28 inches split quite well with motivated swings with the X27.It got harder as I worked down to the bigger rounds. One round took 40 hits to halve. I went mad dog on it with two lots of 20 hits in a flurry, as hard and fast as I could before I needed a breather. Sure, I could have noodled them but sometimes the red mist comes down and I swear I will bash it to death before I quit. Does that happen to anyone else or is it just me?
Got there in the end.
10 rounds worth on the right, 4 (smaller ones) on the left.
Found some wire in there, fortunately with the Fiskars, not Limby.
Loaded up the danger ranger. Three of the four rows were from the four rounds split last Wednesday, so my guess is there is close to three cubes all up (just short of a cord).
Then there was this guy.
This is from the same tree. Mitch had initially planned to get his neighbour to mill all of the blue gum but eventually changed his mind so now it is firewood. I put 10 cuts in the bigger end but touched dirt which didn't help the situation. The log is lying in a soft spot and has subsided a bit which makes it impossible to cut through without cutting dirt. Since the chain was already dull, I cut through in two spots at 4 round intervals, rolled them with the timberjack and separated the rounds (no pic of that, sorry @H-Ranch ).
Not a bad afternoon, I should be able to get out there again tomorrow and finish cutting up this log. Splitting is going to get harder as there are a few bumps, bends and branch stubs but we'll see how we go.
He cuts them at 32" with a mark at 16" so i only need to halve them and trim up some broken ends. That was the 3rd load he brought in the last week or so.Some hard core snob wood there, nice score
You need to get him a measuring stick
I was thinking about that today cutting up some 3.5' locust logs today
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Had been using the old Ford Jubilee as my woods tractor all winter and leaving what it couldn't handle for a woodlot cleanup day with the 1700 4x4. Yesterday was the day. Spent 7 1/2 hours skidding, blocking, hand splitting, and stacking. Still have 16 blocks of 10" hackberry (what a PITA to split!) and 4 blocks of 16" chestnut (5 swings of the X27 and you have 6 beautiful splits ready to stack) left on the ground. There's couple sticks of chestnut to small to split to block up and everything will be cleaned up. I was really feeling my age at the end of the day.
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LOL! NnoOoo, never! I confess to noodling one round of gnarly knotty black cherry yesterday.
Years ago I posted this, when I remembered the details better. I asked a county cop that was one of our Scout leaders if I could take wood on the side of the road, he said yes. But if it fell across a fence, don’t cross the fence.
Then I was talking to a friend at work about the state widening the road. He said he did a search and found that trees taken down on county property belonged to the residents, so they could take them. I never found that. He said he took his trailer in to winch some logs on. A guy was there bucking and hand loading so he blocked the entrance, knowing he’d be done and gone, before the other guy. The other guy said he worked for the state and could cut there, but told my friend he was calling the cops if my friend didn’t leave. He said the discussion was getting heated so he called the cops. When the cop got there, he gave him a copy of what he found in his search. The cop asked for their drivers license. Told my friend he was a county resident and could stay, told the other guy he had to go. To me, that’s just a case of, if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS. Cops can fall for BS too.
Right now they are finishing that road. All of the Yellow Poplar and Oaks are cut in 40 foot saw logs and the rest chipped. If the contractor put something in the contract about the logs, I would think they now belong to him, and are not free game. They might do it that way to keep people out, liability. When the power company did a mass clearing of trees along the lines, they put an add in the paper that the wood was first come, first served.
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