Graybeard Outdoors (GBO Reloaded)
Survival & Self Sustainability => Wood Working => Topic started by: Drilling Man on July 03, 2012, 04:37:15 AM
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It was 96 here yesterday! lol AND, my helper came over, so off we went to the woods!
I had walked in a week or so ago and found a few white pine i wanted to cut out,
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FIRST, we had to cut a road into them and we did that first thing in the morning,
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And then with the heat of the day upon us, i only cut one of them down,
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I sawed out two 16'-6" logs and one 8 footer. I'll mill a couple 6" x 8's out of the 8 footer to put lumber on. Now the skidding begins,
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And i had to skid down a VERY steep hill, (even in 4WD, my tractor couldn't climb this hill, so i had to go waaaaay around to get back on top for each "skid")
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to get to my "log hauling" running gear. WOW, we had no idea how hot it was until we got out of the woods and into the sun!!
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Once loaded, we still had to go up "sugar sand hill" to get to the road and the tractor spun all 4 wheels all the way to the top of the hill!
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Finally we were on out to the road, with our two big logs and a little firewood,
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Takeing them to the BSM, where we will mill them into lumber soon!
Hope you like the picts!
DM
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I always enjoy your pics! ;D
Speaking of which, what ever happened to that unbelieveably beautiful spalted, burley and narly tree by the creek that got cut down a while back?
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DM, I wish I was there to help just so I could learn something about sawing logs. Does working the logs with the front loader seem to put excessive load on the tractor front end? The old 806 IH that I used to drive wouldn't take much turning with it's poor designed front axel setup. What size tractor is that? ear
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I always enjoy your pics! ;D
Speaking of which, what ever happened to that unbelieveably beautiful spalted, burley and narly tree by the creek that got cut down a while back?
That tree was/is my neighbors, and although i milled some of it, most of it is still lieing at his house...
As for the frontend of my tractor... I bought my loader tractor new in the 90's, and one of the things i looked at, before buying it, was how beefy the front end was. I knew what i was going to use the tractor for, so i chose the best i could afford, and it's held up perfectly!
I do lift/carry some extreme loads, but i don't beat on it needlessly!
DM
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What make and modle is the tractor? Thanks. ea
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It's an Agco 5660, i have two Agco's, and both have been great tractors.
DM
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Well, it cooled off some, it only got up to 89* yesterday! lol
An arborist friend brought me some logs a few days ago, so i started out with the FREE log, second from the right in this pict., a very nice blk. spruce,
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and i got some pretty nice 2x6's and 2x10's out of it, for myself!
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Then i moved on to the white pine i logged the other day, here's one of those two 16 footers,
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I "wanted to" get TWO 2x12's out of the "side" lumber, then mill the rest into 3x8's, but i could only comfortably get one 2x12 along with some 5/4,
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I ended up with a "miscut" that i threw under the forks, but that will used builting a goat feeder a friend asked me to help him build,
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Anyway, here's what i got out of "this" log, 3x8's, 5/4 boards and one 2x12...
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And here's all the lumber i milled, loaded on my wagon, mine on the right and my customer friends on the left,
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Well, i'm chipping away at the materials list i have to fill, and it's been one loooooong list!!
DM