About a week and a half ago I got a load of Oak in log length. Today was the first time I have been able to spend any time with it. Spent the first half of the day chewin' on the first 24 or so logs resulting in the start of a pile to feed the splitter. Felt good to have at it, but in no real rush as this is 2016/17 hoard. Put the 55 that I got from KLR onto and she cuts like a bandit. His dome piston conversion is awesome.
Looks good Rotti. There's some splitter food. I gotta ask... does that pile of logs look like it's ready to avalanche or ? That kind of stuff makes me nervous as hell. I had my little pile of logs I cut last spring move on me many times before I got it down to where it couldn't anymore. I'm sure you're aware of it... and it prolly looks worse than it is.
Yeah Stinny she could be hairy for some. I learned along time ago to back up alongside the pile parallel to it and then use the loader to bump the pile forward down to a safe level. That way you and the tractor are safe from the avalanche.
Nice work rotti. Gonna' get all that cut, then split, or cut and split as you go? Stinny, I took a stick or a rake or something and used it to push the load down as I cut. Sometimes just gave 'em a gooder shove or 2. Then, before I was done for the day, I'd pull it down again and watch the logs cascade to the ground.Pretty easy to read. Stand at the end of the logs, and not much chance they'll come back on ya'. Kinda' like leaving an escape path with a tree.
Tractor definately makes it easier to topple for sure. Good idea dumping the logs at the end of a session PD... nothin left then for kids to crawl around on...
Livin' out here in the boonies there is and should be no one around. There are no kids in this area. The reason I live out here is because 3000 other people don't............LOL
Rotti, I'm betting it felt great to be out there cutting and it looks like some mighty fine wood too. As for the pile toppling, we used to say, stay on the end with the cant hook, give it a roll and run like crazy! The only time I remember anyone getting hurt doing this is the time a friend of mine had his cant hook slip and he fell down hard. Got a pretty good bump on his noggin and hurt his pride a bit but that was all.
That's why I get my logs laid out flat. I have great respect for gravity and a fear of getting crushed or rolled over. But the n again a truck like what you got usually comes with about 30 pieces so it is possible to do that.
Dang, that is a pretty site. Love to see tree length stacks, rounds and stacks - all that potential energy just waitin' to push back on winter. Ya got a good start on the logpile, rotti.
Probably swing over and split and stack that pile. No sense rushing it as that pile is supposed to be my entertainment for the winter. I retire Feb 1st so I will want to have something to do. Won't be able to get in the bush then because of the snow no doubt.
One of the body shop owners I visit from time to time tells me he is retired......"I was tired yesterday and I'm retired today" so he says.
Last load I had took me about 2.5 years to get processed. It was nice to be able to go out in Feb. and cut logs. Turned the snow a funky Oak color.
