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06-14-2019, 02:53 PM | #1 |
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Productive couple of hours
I noticed a big oak down a few days ago on the side of the state road. By the time I got to it today it was picked of most of the small easy stuff. But I got the big stuff . Still about 8 ft of the trunk base left. Just didnt want to fight it it with the other wood loaded. Winch makes it much easier.
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06-14-2019, 03:19 PM | #2 |
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All I can think of looking at that is - Motrin.
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06-14-2019, 03:41 PM | #3 |
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Nice score....Chain saws and Motrin a winning combination.
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06-14-2019, 03:59 PM | #4 |
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Good for you. The most efficient firewood is the big stuff. On a per hour basis, you get more firewood out of a 24" trunk than you do out of 4" branches.
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06-14-2019, 04:28 PM | #6 |
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Going to dump this and go back for the base trunk. Need my Dolmar with the 32inch bar. Need to cut the root ball off . One of the most dangerous kind of cuts. Other than leaners.
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06-14-2019, 06:27 PM | #7 |
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And here I was feeling like I did a lot of work getting the old carpet up and out of my truck, then cleaning the floor and sound-deadening the tranny tunnel
Be careful!
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Only took 2 Jamesons to feel good . But two 2oz shots and a couple if my beers
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06-14-2019, 09:25 PM | #9 |
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Looks lie a great score. I was heading out one morning a couple weeks ago and there was a flagman up the road a mile or so. Asplundt was clearing the power line right of way and they had a big oak down cut into "manageable" lengths just past the second flagman. . I was hauling my empty trailer up to a job to drop it off. I whipped it around pointed back toward home (the side the wood was on, and started loading. I got the whole pile. I came back at the end of the day and someone was cutting the rest of the tree up
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06-14-2019, 10:49 PM | #10 |
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Lucky dogs. We pay stupid big money for white oak out here on the left coast. Of course, it's furniture grade quarter-sawn wood, so that makes some difference.
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06-15-2019, 09:07 AM | #11 |
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My neck of the woods mostly sugar maple and red oak and lots of black locust. I did go back for the rest of it. Had to cut it into three pieces to winch it .
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I'll process it and stack it in the 20/21 winter pile. Takes a good year and a half to get oak to under 20% moisture for the stove
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06-15-2019, 03:29 PM | #13 |
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These days I just cut everything up into stove lengths and load by hand into the pickup.
Of course back in the old days I would haul a couple 16-20' length loads of logs and dump them, then bring in the last load of the season and leave it on the truck/trailer. It took about 12 cords to get through 8 months of winter in a trailer house at 10K ASL. By the time I got around to cutting up the load on the truck, the snow was often up to the bunks on the truck, which were about 4 feet off the ground.
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06-15-2019, 04:58 PM | #14 |
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If you were here close to me in Ga I could supply a lot of free Oak , have trees do all over the property .
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06-15-2019, 06:49 PM | #15 |
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Oak here in Ontario Canada is hard to come by, you don't burn it and you can't afford to buy it for any projects.
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06-15-2019, 08:47 PM | #16 |
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Just goes to show ya what some take for granted is gold to others.
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06-15-2019, 09:53 PM | #17 |
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I cut , split and burn wood and give away more than I use . We had a storm come thru a while back that took out about 40 large Oaks . I hate to see it go to waste .
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I know a guy who's thing is milling quarter sawn oak. That's all he does. He has the coolest rig, other than the mill. It's an '80s K30 DRW with a lift and load set-up on the back, to back up, lift, haul to and load on mill.
Yep. I remember when I lived in other parts of the country it would surprise me what we would burn for heat. Like in Humboldt Co, CA burning redwood. Then I'd think of all the hardwoods we burned back east and thought nothing of it. To
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For a while, I had my big GMC set up as a short logger. I built a mast and swinging boom cable log loader powered by a little electric winch (2500#). It actually worked quite well for what it was. The trick was the "heel" that I welded on underneath the boom: you set the tongs well off center and then winch up until the butt of the log hits the heel and then it comes up level. You could then walk the far end of the log around with fingertip pressure so that it was over the log bunks and then let it down. The boom wanted swing back to the center anyway. I didn't have a remote control so it worked best to have a Helper up on the cab roof running the switch. The only problem (besides only hauling a 12' load) was the winch motor would get hot going up and down and up and down over and over. These days if I were to do something like that again, I think that I would mount it on the rear of the truck instead of behind the cab. Make the boom swing 360* and maybe attach it to a hitch receiver so you could take it off. With a bigger winch you could actually "yard" logs in from a fair distance and load them all in one operation.
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06-16-2019, 11:13 AM | #20 |
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We have a lot down too. Mostly ash because they have been weakened by the ash bore. I like it because 6 months it ready to burn.
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My basic idea is like an upside down T, with an insert to go in the receiver welded on at 90* at the junction. Put trailer tongue jacks on each of the short ends of the T, and a short boom that swings 360* (pipe insert or such) at the top (the long end of the inverted T). A simple chunk of angle iron welded cross-ways on the boom will serve as a heel, if you weld some "ears" on it to keep the end of the log from sliding off to either side. Just for explanation, here's a picture of real log loader with a heel in operation:
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06-16-2019, 12:03 PM | #23 |
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I hired my buddy to make me a 3 pt rig for my tractor so I could drag logs out of the woods to my splitter where its less Snaky and no poison oak but he never got it built .
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06-16-2019, 01:02 PM | #24 |
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I have the three point mount for my kubota but most of my wood comes from off my property. I have used it friends places where I could leave it .
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Can you share a pic of your Kubota with it on there ? I will share my cell number if you prefer to text it .
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