Time to cut some wood.

[Nyoest]

Days are getting shorter and cooler, winters a comin. Finally got off my duff and started on next years wood. Here's how I do it.



The quad hauls all the saws, wedges, files, mauls, gas and oil.



The 1935 B does a very nice job of skidding logs and squirting through tight spots



The '71 4320 is the hammer. It pushes slash, stacks at the landing and is all around brute.



I'm clearing fence row around my place, should make for a lot of good wood.



More pics if any interest.

 

[NIsaacs]

Keep your thumbs out of the spokes on the steering wheel on the "B":-laf



Nick

 

[mwilson]

We burn 4-5 cord a year, along with HWBB fired by #2 Fuel Oil.

Annual fuel use is around 500 gallons, that also supplies the domestic hot water year round.

Also have 2 propane units, 1 is a wall mount 4 panel style and the other is a Vermont Castings 35,000 BTU unit.

Burn the wood all winter, furnace kicks in during the wee hours of the morning as the wood stove slows down.

Propane heat is supplemental for the really cold evenings.



We are always a year ahead on our wood as well, most chimney fires up here are a result of poor maintenance and/or green wood in an airtight stove.

All the chimney guy ever finds in ours during the annual cleaning is a fine powder.



We are on the South shore of a small lake so the wind pounds the front of the house all winter long.

-20 below with a 20MPH wind will bring the drafts out in a hurry. .



We have found that it is cheaper for us to now order our wood delivered all sawed and split rather than lose a few days work doing it up ourselves.

Used to buy a truckload delivered tree length, saw it up and split it.



I work 50 hours a week minimum plus a 2 hour commute for each day I work.

Wife works at least 40 hours a week plus watches the grandkids as much as possible.



Just seems like there is no time for doing anything extra anymore... .



I'm glad to see that people in other areas of the country still burn wood, there is nothing that compares to it.

Once you are used to it you find it almost impossible to be comfortable in the winter without a fire going. .



Mike.

 

[mwilson]

Keep your thumbs out of the spokes on the steering wheel on the "B":-laf



Nick

I have folded mine back that way a few times on tractors and old trucks... After a couple of episodes you learn... . :-laf



Mike.

 

[mwilson]

Days are getting shorter and cooler, winters a comin. Finally got off my duff and started on next years wood. Here's how I do it.



The quad hauls all the saws, wedges, files, mauls, gas and oil.



The 1935 B does a very nice job of skidding logs and squirting through tight spots



The '71 4320 is the hammer. It pushes slash, stacks at the landing and is all around brute.



I'm clearing fence row around my place, should make for a lot of good wood.



More pics if any interest.

What trees do you use for firewood????



Here it is Ash, Beech and Maple as a rule.



Some other species will burn too hot such as Elm. Can melt a stove that way.



Mike.

 

[Nyoest]

Keep your thumbs out of the spokes on the steering wheel on the "B":-laf



Nick

That's a big ten four! I learned that valuable lesson at about seven on this very tractor

What trees do you use for firewood????



Here it is Ash, Beech and Maple as a rule.



Some other species will burn too hot such as Elm. Can melt a stove that way.



Mike.

Mike we burn white and red oak mainly. My favorite two are hedge and red elm. Red elm burns so dang hot it makes clinkers! The jotul stove handles it great.



Here's a pic of the 96 delivering some firewood.

 

[mwilson]

OK, I just gotta' know... .



WTH is hedge?????



This isn't gonna' be one of those mesquite bean stories is it??????:-laf



Mike.

 

[SMolteberg]

Red elm burns so dang hot it makes clinkers! The jotul stove handles it great.

What kind of Jotul do you have? I live just 20 minutes away from their plant.

I agree that nothing beats wood to heat up a house. In my new house I only have electricity like most modern houses in Norway, but in my old house I had a huge Dovre stove that burnt 2 feet lengths. That one put out some serious heat.

There is a chimney in my new house so I will put in a new wood stove here during the winter. Look forward to have a modern stove with the clean burn technology. It's amazing how much more heat you get out of the wood that way.

 

[Nyoest]

Mike hedge is also known as Osage orange. Very hard wood that looks highlighter green when fresh cut. Muy caliente.

Sm I dont recall the model but it's their largest one. Best invest I've made in a long time. Much more controllable heat than the last stove and uses less wood.

 

[mwilson]

Now you need one of these... . was the workhorse of the woods up here 30 years ago...



John Deere 440 series.



Mike.

 

[NIsaacs]

John Deere green stuff is good... . but the yellow is junk or was kinda like Ford v/s Dodge



Cat, Mountain logger and even IHC was better then John Deere in my opinion



Nick

 

[mwilson]

We had some IHC Payloggers up here and they were a good machine.

Cat's also did well as cable skidders, BIL had a 518 Cat and it was tough, but pricey for major repair items.



The John Deere's were the most popular up here, 440 and 540 series in the cable days.



The biggest problem was the shared hydraulic system, something would happen in the winch for example and the skidder jockey kept on going.

Next thing you know the swarf is all through the transmission and steering. Now you really have created some issues to deal with... ... ...



Now it is 99% mechanized due to the cost of workers comp insurance and Cat really dominates the market with the big grapple skidders.



Mike.

 

[mwilson]

Pretty nice place to spend the day. .



Heated, air conditioned, satellite radio, etc... .



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

MWilson you make it to easy. Loggin aint supposed to be fun. You have heat in your cab/ so do I just light up a smoke and wait till one of the mule's has gas you will have heat :-laf/you have A/C it dont get that hot in MT take off your shirt/ You have flats / mine throw's shoes/yours have hydraulic leaks/mine just take leaks/yours produce pollution/ mine just watch were you step a little crap on your boots adds charm anyway. And I can sing /Just a different way of loggin And I dont have to watch my weight work is the way to stay healthy and I DONT HAVE PROBLEMS GOIN TO SLEEP. :-laf

 

[mwilson]

We have several horse loggers up around here, they do a great job and leave very little mess behind.



People with smaller woodlots hire them quite frequently, they have a nice little niche in the market. Plus it is nice to see it done that way.



Mike.

 

[BIGNASTY]

It is nice, My mules will hitch to wagons and carts but I havent done loggin with them yet. Old guy down the way logs this way said he would help to get my boys used to it. It's more of just exercise and fun for me. I didnt know that they still do it for real. Theres not a 24 hour Fitness around here so I have to stay in shape some how. This is another hobby. I kind of like the old way's of doing things.



Crosscut saw sharpening for the 2 man saw cutting wood this way will put some lead in your pencel,Son got me one of these to help burn off some calories. Or kill me havent figured out wich yet?

 

[Dieselnut59]

Diesel wood splitter

Everyone needs a diesel powered hydraulic firewood splitter if they are going to be splitting firewood. Here is mine, although it is well used now and still flawless.

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/cummins-diesel-conversions/207084-yanmar-conversions.html

 

[BIGNASTY]

Everyone needs a diesel powered hydraulic firewood splitter if they are going to be splitting firewood. Here is mine, although it is well used now and still flawless.

https://www.turbodieselregister.com/forums/cummins-diesel-conversions/207084-yanmar-conversions.html

I will have to get at least a pic of the splitter that I built in Calif. If I can get away from FIL. Brought it out LAST YEAR!!!! when moving and that's the LAST!!!!!!! I have seen it. On mine I dont have to lift the logs to be split just roll them in and pull the handle. Those Yanmar motor's good ?

 

[The patriot]

I miss my woodstove. It was a federal (Vermont castings) 264.

I sold it to some hippies up your way MWilson. They live in an offgrid house outside of Bangor. One of those round houses, I think theyre called a yert.

2-3 cords was sufficient here in S jersey.



I put a gas fireplace in place of it because I built a very nice hearth for the wood stove.



Aint the same.....

 

[mwilson]

I miss my woodstove. It was a federal (Vermont castings) 264.

I sold it to some hippies up your way MWilson. They live in an offgrid house outside of Bangor. One of those round houses, I think theyre called a yert.

2-3 cords was sufficient here in S jersey.



I put a gas fireplace in place of it because I built a very nice hearth for the wood stove.



Aint the same.....

My God, I haven't seen a hippie up here since they all had a commune in Wytopitlock in the '70s... ... ... . Wow, a yert.



Had a Buckminster Fuller design geodesic dome beside Route 2 in Old Town for years, it is gone now. All that is left is the 8 sided cement slab... :-laf



Mike.