Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[JimR]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

 

[JimR]

I often use heavy equipment to help assist in the felling of trees around power lines and houses. It's usually a 200 series trackhoe or bigger as a safety with the bucket up against the trunk with very little or no pressure on the tree unless I require it.

Too much pressure could cause a barber chair. I saw a video where a guy had his tractor nailed when a tree did that.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SR

 

[Logger nate]

Hey @Logger nate when i was fueling the truck the other day I saw this and thought of you lol.
Just a little rust
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Here what I've been cruising around in.
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Nice truck! ( the bottom one) not much room for firewood though

 

[bob kern]

SR

I'm sure this looks like an accident but it was just time to grease the fittings underneath!

 

[ericylee]

Welcome to AS Eric.
Do you have a farm permit?
Where you located at.

My brother in law does.

 

[ericylee]

Do you have a lot of deer left? Have you seen any deer that passed from CWD?

 

[ericylee]

Still seeing deer here on the Mississippi River bottoms. No CWD victims that I have seen.

 

[ericylee]

My brother in law does. Minnesota

 

[Logger nate]

Dynamite works better that tractors



Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

SR

Perfect! Thats how its Done!

 

[SeMoTony]

So do you have a 60c" double ended bar fir sale?

Not anymore. I have singles in 50", &60" both canon. And the ported 661c spins those loops fine

 

[MustangMike]

Having big equipment is nice, but if you don't, my little rope winch gets it done!

 

[MustangMike]

Hey @Logger nate when i was fueling the truck the other day I saw this and thought of you lol.
Just a little rust
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Here what I've been cruising around in.
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Real nice-looking rig there, that sleeper looks huge (and deluxe)! What make is it?

Back when I did a little driving, they were all stick shift, and you had to know how to double clutch (no syncros). We even had one truck (at the moving company) called "old #3" that did not have power steering! IIRC it was an International, conventional cab, single screw. Driving it gave you a real workout!

I was a driver/helper/warehouseman for Noble Van + Storage (North American Van Lines) in Elmsford NY. Our big warehouse was in the old Anaconda Wire + Cable building in Hastings On Hudson and had a rail spur.

Our loading dock was 90* to the road, and a lot of the over the road drivers from out West could not back into it, so we backed in a lot of the trucks for them. (They were not used to the tight spaces of the NE).

My brother and I both worked there during and after college, and we learned to drive everything from a van with a trailer to tractor trailers and straight trucks, and back up using mirrors. Do the trucks now have BU cameras like the cars?

My brother and I had plans to be over the road drivers for a few years, it paid really well at the time and all of your expenses were covered. The guy that offered us the job had a small fleet of Kenworths, but my brother ruined our plans by getting married! He really wanted up partly because my brother was also the company's truck mechanic.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Having big equipment is nice, but if you don't, my little rope winch gets it done!

Too much pressure could cause a barber chair. I saw a video where a guy had his tractor nailed when a tree did that.

Yes! To much pressure against the trunk "before enough" holding wood is relieved can cause a tree to chair. Thats why I stated in my post I'll have the operator use "very little or no pressure at all unless I require it"

Also, the further up the trunk the pressure is applied, the more the leverage compounds vs having the same amount of pressure lower down the trunk, However, if the pushing/pulling point is too low? The tree can possibly chair over backwards as well when "to much" holding wood is relieved (to deep of a face cut). Due to the trees weight causing excessive leverage above the mechanical advantage (pushing/pulling) point.

In short, A person better know what hes doing when pushing with equipment or pulling with a guy line. If he doesn't? He shouldn't be the person cut'n the tree in the first place!

Hope this all makes sense.


Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[djg james]

I saw bar oil online at Walmart for $9.95 a gallon. I head to Walmart and the bar oil is $13.96. I grabbed a worker and showed him the online price. He said get what you need and tell the register clerk to price match it. I bought 4 gallons of bar oil and saved $16.00. That was a very good deal.

Don't you just love some retailers' websites/ You shop around for the lowest price and than go there only to find a higher price. The local farm store (Rural King) has Cam II for $7/Gal. I pick up a gallon or two every time I go in there. It's only going to go up. Can't believe I only bought a case of Stihl oil years ago when it was on sale for $3/Gal. Wish I had a crystal ball.

 

[WoodAbuser]

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[Lionsfan]

Hey @Logger nate when i was fueling the truck the other day I saw this and thought of you lol.
Just a little rust
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Here what I've been cruising around in.
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New truck looks pretty clean. How was the interior? Seats clean? Windows clean? Any science projects in the fridge? Dirty gym shorts under the mattress?

 

[chipper1]

My buddy had a dead oak fall on his enclosed trailer. Fortunately, the top was a bit punky and caused just a bruise and minimal damage. We were just going to cut this up and toss it, but the center was solid on the top pieces, so I kept it.

My new Factory reconditioned Husky 455 came in a few days before. I bought it from Northern Tool for $264.00, which is a great price and tough to pass up. The saw came in with minimal showing of use and fired up on the second pull at 20*F when we cut up the oak. I tossed on a 20" Oregon EXL chain and it goes pretty good. I have a load of tree service ash coming and she'll be added to the saw rotation.

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BTW - figured I may get some slack for being a Packers fan. Man, it's been a tough season so be gentle. Most of my friends and wife are Pats fans, so I get it all the time. LOL

Nice haul.
That's a great deal on a 455, they're awesome firewooding saws .
As far as being a Pakers fan, the only thing worse is being a Lions fan .
Have a great thanksgiving.

 

[GeeVee]

Got any pics of what your talking about? I'll stiff probably buy or make a grapple bucket at some point, but I'm not against adding something to make the forks handy. Which they are not the greatest for moving logs.

Kinda like these Sean, weld some tabs for the top clamp pins onto your headache rack, and one for the generic ram and you can remove it and preserve the forks for pallet moving. The second pic is neat because you can maybe hold the log over a table and make rounds for splitting? My grapple for my skid steer is also quite heavy alone, and my forks would be lighter, and give me an opportunity to cut rounds, I could only cut off the ends of 8 or ten foot logs, no way to run a saw aroudn all the metal my grapple has. Just a thought. Forks alone suck, the round logs slide all over the place, It doesnt have to have crushing clamping power, just a grip on two or four logs would be great.