One of Dads friends Rod has a steam engine that he displays at the Lake goldsmith steam rally. Lake Goldsmith Steam Rally Another of their friends Roy has a farm with a big windbreak of 100 year old sugar gum eucalyptus trees, and Roy wanted to cut some firewood for Rod's steam engine, some firewood for his house and another of their friends Jeff wanted some firewood as well. So what's a hoarder to do? Yep I spent the morning felling some beautiful Aussie hardwood and the afternoon bucking and loading the biggest rounds. I left the warm house at 8:30am in to the freezing -4C / 25F weather to hook up my trailer. Yea I know you blokes don't think 25F is cold but for us Aussies this is. Frosty trailer. Next I headed to the gas station to fill up my fuel can, then drove over the ridge to the next town, I did notice how well my truck pulled in sub freezing weather, cold air defiantly helps turbo diesels. The fog cleared and it was a clear nice drive down to the farm. We drove down the windbreak to the spot where Roy had marked out the trees he wanted felled and I proceeded to put on my helmet, chaps and gloves then pulled the saws out of the truck to fill with fuel and oil. I was shocked at how long it took to fill the saws with oil, it was that thick. Did I mention it was cold! I did not count how many trees I dropped but they were big 20" DBH and tall. Roy with his beautiful John Deer holding one of the smaller trees while he cuts blocks and Rod with his 024 stihl cutting some branches. Some of the trees were dead standers and Dad did a lot of splitting of them for Rod and helped him load his trailer. Roy filled his tandem trailer as well as the back of his ute (truck) and Jeff filled the back of his ute. Sorry I didn't get pictures. Rod, Roy and Jeff were very impressed with my timber tongs, none of them had seen them before because they are a rarity down here. Roy, Rod and Jeff did a lot of limbing, they must have because I did not do any, I was pouring gas through my MS 660 bucking the biggest trunks with a 20" bar and 8 pin sprocket, man is that thing fun. I used almost 4 litres of fuel in my saws 1 us gallon most of which probably went in the 660. We filled my trailer to the brim, with all or the big rounds on the bottom and some splits to fill in the gaps. Could not have fit another stick in her. Notice how close the tyres are to the guards! Then it was Dads turn to have his trailer filled. I had to put my hand truck on top of his load because it would not fit in mine. The sun was setting as we drove home, and we unloaded both dads and my trailers at my place for splitting tomorrow/next week. I got about 2 Cords of beautiful Sugar gum for our work. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looks like a nice days work! Always great when you can get right up on top of it! And it really is amazing how.much more power diesels have in the cold. My 425HP Cat in my wrecker felt like it had at least 50 more HP in the cold.
Nice work leoht For sure we like it around 25 degrees for wood cutting here. Can still work up a sweat in that so still have to be careful. Not good to sweat when it is cold out as then the wet clothing really can make you feel cold.
Looks like a great day's work and perfect weather for it! I love all of the pics except this one....you're driving on the wrong side of the truck and road! Better be careful if you're gonna make a habit of that
25ºF is too cold to be outdoors without a jacket even though we often see temperatures below 0ºF here in winter.
Dennis, your a cold weather guy!! Yup layers, t shirt, flannel shirt, wind breaker on top in morning. By noon just a long sleeve shirt! I would call you a northerner, but in leoht work you go north to get warm!!
Well I can tell you, I started the morning with my Milwaukee heated jacket and Driza-Bone vest. When I put my safety gear on I swapped the heated jacket for a hoodie and old vest. It was starting to warm up as the sun got higher and not long after the work started I was down to my t-shirt. When we stopped for lunch I put my jacket back on. After lunch I was back to a t-shirt again until the sun was starting to set and all the heavy lifting was done. I put my hoodie on for the drive home and continued to wear it while unloading the trailers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
