What do you take wood cutting ?

Nice

Need to get an axe & a couple wedges.
List always growing. LOL

I use 5 gallon buckets & milk crates bungeed to the ATV

 

Man, I need to move somewhere that has more trees.

 

I have to drive to the trees, out a narrow road/trail, then an atv trail to the cutting area.
There I've had to make/cut trails to get to the trees.
Means I've added more "STUFF" that I take with me. atv & trailer gotta go with me now.

 

While bogey doesn't have much diversity in his stacks, the stuff he has to assemble and bring along more than make up for the lack of tree species he collects.

That's quite the operation, and very impressive. Bogey, you don't need to get on a barge to haul the wood, do you?

 

24 (+/-) miles one way, end of road, I go a few miles in the with the trailer, stop at the last place to turn around a 16' trailer.
then use the atv, about another mile to the wood.

You can zoom in & see the trail, Goog map don't recognize the trail/ rd into the woods.

Route: State Wood cutting area

 

I take me, my quad, my trailer, and my saw. That's it. It is a short ride and I can fill my trailer twice or more on one tank of gas.

 

That's quite an op you have to get wood Dave. Perty slick how you've rigged up... How far are you from Wasilla international airport...

 

I try to take my desire to cut as much wood as I can within a given time! It seems like I ALWAYS take way to much “gear” multiple cables, chains, gas,oil,saw clevises. Plus, the desire to cut a lot of wood! Yesterday, case in point, Way to much cable!I ended up using a 3/8ths 20 ft choker for the skidding chores. But, no, I took multiple cables, blocks, , for that just in case moment comes around for the “big log”. lol it never happened, all were up to 20” on the butt, and I was told, anything on the ground is for fire wood. I’ve cut wood on clear cuts, open sun, no shade, hot, dry, blistering heat, rain, snow, cold,wet,etc. yesterday was pretty shady dry, cool, enjoyable, but I felt I was still on a clock time wise. Did see a couple of deer, that was nice,I was just up behind a friends house, with in a mile or less of a paved county road. It don’t get much better than that! Even took a strap so I could skid from one tree to the next. And, I was less than 5 miles from home! I have a very reliable 4x4 pickup, that has air bags, just for that “big load” had a axe, so I could split the “big ones”. Pretty good ground, good area to skid logs through, trails, etc. can’t really complain, was home in 30 min,all on paved roads! Another plus!

Normally I’m on rocked roads, I within ear shot of other wood cutters. But, this was nice, took a lot of water, some sandwiches, tried to enjoy the moment. “ But still on the clock” I go by myself normally, to really enjoy the peacefulness, and relaxing? Part of cutting wood. NOT PUTTING MYSELF ON A TIMELINE, but I always seem to. Afterwards, to come home, pull the pickup behind the house, get the wood unloaded, splitting, stacking, then washing up the pickup, that’s the final part, cooling off , down, it don’t get much better than that, knowing I’ve accomplished my task, to get this winters wood back home, stacked, split, delivered to our house is satisfying to say the least. Oh, took my lightest saw 261 fast cutting, sharp chain, beautiful chips, couldn’t ask for more, I am truly blessed! Good health, still able to have the desire to cut wood, have “all the tools” I needed, what more could a guy ask for? Just my thoughts , and, I enjoyed it a lot! Afterwords, the sun came out,the wind come up, perfect, wood drying weather! Another great day, on GODS earth! It’s 4:10 am! Think I’ll go outside and check out my wood,lol

 

Northwest Logging Supply is a Stihl Dealer in McMinnville, Oregon, they usually have Log Dawgs on the shelf. I am sure that they would ship you some.

we used them boat logging all the time as a kid, always had a bucket of them in the boatwell at our boathouse on the Columbia River

I don’t use boats collecting firewood anymore, but picked up a handful from NWLS awhile back because I thought they might come in handy, but haven’t found a need for them yet.

Oh, and they brought back some Great memories of my childhood, so I kinda wanted a few around, but dayum these ain’t all Rusty yet, so maybe I need to leave em out in the yard for a couple months


Doug

 

The only thing I carry that I haven't seen yet on this thread is a one handed tourniquet clipped to my belt. I figure with a chainsaw loss of blood could be an issue. On Amazon search for "Rhino Rescue one handed tourniquet".