DM
04-24-2009, 07:09 AM
I already posted this in another area, but a couple folks asked me to post it here too, so here it is...
The weather has been pretty decent here lately, so i figured i better go skid and collect some red pine logs my neighbor gave me a few weeks ago. They are in a power line right away, and as you can see, they were all jammed together...
http://www.fototime.com/77CBAB50EC9CE8D/standard.jpg
I used an older MFWD tractor i have, to do the skidding, because of all the small tree stubs in the right away... I just couldn't chance having one of those stubs going through a radial tire on my loader tractor!
http://www.fototime.com/25636BB7C01A8E8/standard.jpg
I only took the bigger logs, and skidded them to the side of the road. Another neighbor will cut up the rest of the logs for his outdoor wood stove...
http://www.fototime.com/286203BBE85C228/standard.jpg
Once all the logs i wanted were at the road side, i went home, got my loader tractor and went back with my log hauling running gear... The loader made short work of getting all of the logs loaded...
http://www.fototime.com/182E176D40283FC/standard.jpg
Here's all of the logs on the running gear, i will get quite a few 2x6's out of these logs, even though they aren't "giants". That's because a bandmill only has a 3/16" kerf, so there's not much of the cut going to sawdust, and saw dust is really nothing more than waste...
http://www.fototime.com/FBA0CC0B35EDE9B/standard.jpg
Here's the load, ready to head up the road to the mill site, not bad for FREE logs...
http://www.fototime.com/DB0E0C8F2CBC10D/standard.jpg
That's it for this time!
DM
The weather has been pretty decent here lately, so i figured i better go skid and collect some red pine logs my neighbor gave me a few weeks ago. They are in a power line right away, and as you can see, they were all jammed together...
http://www.fototime.com/77CBAB50EC9CE8D/standard.jpg
I used an older MFWD tractor i have, to do the skidding, because of all the small tree stubs in the right away... I just couldn't chance having one of those stubs going through a radial tire on my loader tractor!
http://www.fototime.com/25636BB7C01A8E8/standard.jpg
I only took the bigger logs, and skidded them to the side of the road. Another neighbor will cut up the rest of the logs for his outdoor wood stove...
http://www.fototime.com/286203BBE85C228/standard.jpg
Once all the logs i wanted were at the road side, i went home, got my loader tractor and went back with my log hauling running gear... The loader made short work of getting all of the logs loaded...
http://www.fototime.com/182E176D40283FC/standard.jpg
Here's all of the logs on the running gear, i will get quite a few 2x6's out of these logs, even though they aren't "giants". That's because a bandmill only has a 3/16" kerf, so there's not much of the cut going to sawdust, and saw dust is really nothing more than waste...
http://www.fototime.com/FBA0CC0B35EDE9B/standard.jpg
Here's the load, ready to head up the road to the mill site, not bad for FREE logs...
http://www.fototime.com/DB0E0C8F2CBC10D/standard.jpg
That's it for this time!
DM