I'm lucky because the forks on my tractor slide so I can easily close them together and at that point are probably only 24" or so apart. It does take some getting used to but cutting at waist height is the only way I want to cut any more. I would be lying if I told you I have never hit any part of the forks but it's only ever been minor (just enough to get my attention.) I run a 24" bar most of the time but will say it becomes cumbersome when I have the 32" bar on the saw. I don't have a thumb so the log just rests on the forks which means you can only take 1 or 2 cuts on one end before having to switch to the other side which isn't a big deal at all. I absolutely love cutting on the forks!
Beauty from a couple different places. This was our old vegetable garden, I planted wildflowers a couple years ago when weeds got so bad. I thought the flowers and logs were pretty together. Another kind of beauty is a friend you can trust with anything. This is Mike, our neighbor and life long friend. He went with us up to Hancock county clean up job, checks on the place and feeds the animals when we go on a trip. He is a trip to be around, always cutting the fool. I had just cut that hickory stick and he was sitting on the big hickory stump cutoff. I told him he was the "Mountain Man"...I could him the key to my house and never worry...
FINALLY Front end Back end Got the big shed full...5 cords drying...primo oak and hickory This small rack has the culls, crooked and uglies. It will hold 1.25 cords. We will burn this in the stove, firepit or at mom's.
Looks beautiful! Even the uglies have their charm. We're never really done making firewood, but it feels great to fill the shed!
Looking good T.Jeff Veal . Nice feeling to fill her up., but as Midwinter said, we're never really done, are we?
I guess that is one place to store. Paint roll (maybe), yellow paint spray, and bug dope. Looks good Jeff and Carol.
I see what you are talking about. I think the pink thing is a roll of string?? Other can is spray lube we put on the splitter beam.
A friend messaged me early this morning that he needed a mix of BBQ wood for a pig in a couple weeks...my hunny and I hooked him up this morning. Let the TSC 30 TON BEAST slice up this tough hickory crotch stump By lunchtime we had him a good mix CSS... Hickory on the right, pecan in the middle, oak on the left...ready for pick up.
WOW! you guys must have some serious pigs down there! I know pigs eat practically anything, bit have never heard of them eating wood! Does it make the meat tougher or more tender?
He wants to buy this wood and I'll be working probably. Gonna include some BBQ in the price though...
...we gots serious piggies down here in the swamps... that's why we can't keep'em in a pen...they eat their way out...giv'em hickory to make'em tough, then the pecan for sweetness, acid in the oak blends it together....
Well, my HUNNY and I SPLIT UP yesterday... it's so sad... She sent me to the wood pile, I sent her to the lawnmower....each of us was happy... Got a few logs out and bucked up...yes, I actually noodled 3 blocks to see how the saw would do with 25" bar, full depth. Did very well. Where I started from. The small rounds are crabapple. Crabapple is pretty Rain and time caught up with me still got the big oak rounds to finish.
Great looking work and wood as always my friend! Do you noodle down to fireplace size or to a manageable chunk for the splitter?
Don't normally noodle at all, just did that one log. I can roll a big round to the vertical splitter, if I noodle then I have to flip or tote it...lol...
Well, my hunny has been at the wood pile while I'm at work again. She had to get our friend, Mike, to help her get the splitter vertical, then she finished up the bigger oak pieces that I had noodled and one big oak round, and she stacked it. This is the one above that I stopped on about half way up, more oak and hickory. Said she was going to the pool now...lol...
