Adding to the hoard today. The first 24 feet are going to the sawmill. You can see the logs in the picture below. Cut up the top for firewood. Splitting some of it with the pup. I put a gage on my logsplitter just to see what types of pressures i get when i am splitting stuff. It rarely gets over 1000 psi. The gage was $14 on amazon and i got the fittings at hydraulics direct. They have sold me stuff a couple times and it is cheap and arrives quickly. Here is a good picture of the stump. It was pretty rotten in the middle so i plunged it and stuck in some wedges. Tickled the back and down she went. Also, i think someone notices some small beeches on my place in a previous picture. Here is a good pic of one of the bigger ones. Great weather here today, started out at 26F and got up to 45F. Sun all day. Hope everybody had some good hoarding!
Spencer It looks like you, the pup, the stihl, and the deere had a great day in the woods! Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.
Nice work Spencer, I was out this morning splitting/stacking a solid face cord with the fire pit and some Eagles on the Alexa. Beautiful weather today...
Got all my splits from a red oak and the maple shown above out of the woods and stacked on skids. I think there is about a cord there. My helper was with me as always. Every trip i made into the woods with the UTV, she followed right behind. She was exhausted at the end of the day lol. I put all my wood on pallets as my wooded property is not where my house is (where i burn a majority of my wood, i do burn some in my cabin down at the wooded property). I use my tractor and forks to load the pallets up on my trailer and then stick the pallets on my porch at my house. Reduces the number of times i have to touch the wood for sure.
Yeah there are so many splits in those large rounds! Next time i get into a big tree like that i need to count the number of splits.
Spencer you have a good setup and a beautiful woodlot too. Although I hate pallets, I may borrow your idea to some extent for moving wood from the stacks up to the barn as it might shorten the job a bit and the tractor can do the work easily.
I would love to have a mill quartersaw that beech. I have one about 2/3 that size that I keep an eye on, if it ever gets the bark disease it is going to the mill. QS beech has the ray fleck of white oak, but not the heavy grain, and tends to be very light pink to tan in color when finished. Really pretty wood. Sycamore, when QS, is similar.
Yeah I have not QS any beech, but have done a 2,000ish bdft of sycamore for all the walls of my cabin. I really like it, it looks good without any oils/stains/poly done to it. I will keep my eyes on my beech trees and see if there are any i should cull, and QS those suckers into boards. Thanks for the info.
