smokinjay said:How much you cutting this summer?
fyrwoodguy said:smokinjay said:How much you cutting this summer?
this white pine lot just down the street from my place, will probably take years to finish. at the burn rate of 3-4 cords a year.
all the hardwood is being removed,largest so far is 12" ,most 2"-6" diameter. 14 acres total.
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99% of the wood removed remains round when cut to stove length. ;-)
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the landing place.
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wood is picked up & loaded on trailer by hand, off loaded hydraulically :-/
all brush chipped.
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Werm said:Is that your lot that 's being cleared??
GolfandWoodNut said:cowboy billy, that is a serious piece of equipment. I bet you can push some pretty big stumps out with that beast. The stumps give me the most trouble, some come out easy, some I have to go around. I guess you need different equipment for different needs. I can finally get around most of my property (I put in about a mile so far) with a quad now and get to alot of wood, and enjoy the woods. More wood than I need. I have some huge trees here that I know are worth some money, but I hate the thought of cutting them down. Maybe some selective cutting someday, I can imagine if they ever come and take it all at once it will be a cluster f.
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fyrwoodguy said:99% of the wood removed remains round when cut to stove length. ;-)
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the landing place.
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Cowboy Billy said:GolfandWoodNut said:cowboy billy, that is a serious piece of equipment. I bet you can push some pretty big stumps out with that beast. The stumps give me the most trouble, some come out easy, some I have to go around. I guess you need different equipment for different needs. I can finally get around most of my property (I put in about a mile so far) with a quad now and get to alot of wood, and enjoy the woods. More wood than I need. I have some huge trees here that I know are worth some money, but I hate the thought of cutting them down. Maybe some selective cutting someday, I can imagine if they ever come and take it all at once it will be a cluster f.
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A JD 450 is a nice machine but its small. It only weighs 14900 lbs. With any machine its all weight and traction. Thats the smallest dozer I have ever run. At work I usually run a D-6 45000lbs or a D-5 34000 lbs. It doesn't not work very well trying to dig a stump out. I push the tree over first the weight of the tree really helps pop the stump out. A 20" or larger tree requires me to dig around it some and break off some of the roots.
While I do have some nice trees a lot of the property has been logged so most of it is 6" to 10" DBH. It is so thick it was hard to walk through. My cousin (semi tree hugger) was complaining about all the trees I knocked over. I told him if you can't get into the woods to see it its not there anyways!
I am trying to go around the larger trees too. That way I can go in and get them later when I have a use for them. I do want to go and get a bunch cut up into lumber and drying so when I want to do something I can just go to the lumber pile to get it.
Been busy working on some IH wagons. One is a hay wagon with a dump bed and the other is a running gear with a log rack. I wanted to have them done yesterday and go to the farm with them today but it looks like I will be done today and go tomorrow. I got some spruce logs down I need to pick up with the log wagon so I can get them sawed up for the deck of the hay wagon.
This is the dump wagon
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And here it is as far as I got last nite. Hopefully I will have the color on today and put back together far enough to take up tomorrow.
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Here are some logs I cut two years ago and built a addition to my trailer last year with.
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Billy
Cowboy Billy said:It sure is Jay
Although its a 130 which is just a late model Super A. We have two of them and a 100.
Billy
The thing to remember here is that none of us came out of the chute knowing anything about seasoning firewood. 25 years ago, I used to cut wood in mid to late Summer for the upcoming Winter. Back then I burned in a big ole Ashley, and would throw in 8-10" oak "all nighters". The wood was wet and so was I behind the ears. At least a couple times a year, I could hear the creosote in the chimney catching fire and "cleaning itself out". When I asked a couple of wood burning neighbors, they told me it was "normal". No Hearth.com (or Internet for that matter) to find out the right stuff. The problem was (and still is) that there are lots of folks who burn unseasoned wood. If you talk to a few of them, and get the same story, then it sounds better each time you hear it. So anyone who wanders on to this site and gets converted over to seasoning their firewood, that's another win. And, it doesn't matter if you're 21 or 61 - it's still a win. So, to answer the question in Jay's OP, I cut year round - something almost every day. Get ahead and stay ahead ;-PPiston said:... I am one of those 'un-educated' types that waited too long to cut.
Needshave said:I got home from cutting about 1 1/2 hours ago. I just got my first saw about three weeks ago. I have a lot to learn. I hit a rock with the stock safety chain. Most of the trees I felled went down easy. One did not. I didn't take into account where the tree was leaning at the top.
Cowboy Billy said:It sure is Jay
Although its a 130 which is just a late model Super A. We have two of them and a 100.
Billy
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