Split/stacked a cord today....now sitting by a warm fire and enjoying a scotch waiting for the better half to get home for dinner.
Classify these as good times.
Follow up on the "Dead Man Walking" tree.
Looks like fun Mr. g. What have you got going on there? Pull from a log pile and split & stack by the stove?Doin a little firewooding today myself...
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Yep. My goal is always minimal handling. I'd have logs dumped right there by the stove but the wife thinks it looks bad. She's not wrong, but she isn't the one dealing with it. I have gotten good using the log tongs on the loader. I can usually snag what I want without getting off the tractor. Just have to jump down to unhook them. So it's not that bad.Looks like fun Mr. g. What have you got going on there? Pull from a log pile and split & stack by the stove?
We have 30 acres west of Indy, it is 99% woods. Some years ago before we bought it it was logged, not horribly but there are still crowns laying around. The benefit from that is the logging lanes they left that meander around the entire property. They are wide enough for the gator (maybe a Jeep too?) and they really saved me A LOT of work clearing stumps and whatnot. Not so many years ago non-tillable property outside of the doughnut counties was selling at around $2,800-$2,900 per acre. Most sellers are asking north of $3,000 per acre nowadays. This property is the best investment I've ever made in my life, as you can see we have a great time being out there.Awesome that you have some land to roam around on and use the John Deere gator.
Can I ask how many acres you have?
My friend and I are looking for some good acreage within an hour of Indy, that has a cheap house that I can redo and live in. And then enough room so he can build a house there too. Then we can share solar and a well.
Thanks for the kind words.We have 30 acres west of Indy, it is 99% woods. Some years ago before we bought it it was logged, not horribly but there are still crowns laying around. The benefit from that is the logging lanes they left that meander around the entire property. They are wide enough for the gator (maybe a Jeep too?) and they really saved me A LOT of work clearing stumps and whatnot. Not so many years ago non-tillable property outside of the doughnut counties was selling at around $2,800-$2,900 per acre. Most sellers are asking north of $3,000 per acre nowadays. This property is the best investment I've ever made in my life, as you can see we have a great time being out there.
Land is out there, set your goal and search every day. It took us 4 years to find our corner of heaven. Good luck!!
Neighbor had a couple standing dead trees in a fence row about a half mile away that needed taken down. With the cold and snow, Saturday was as good a time as any to cross his chisel plowed field and snag them. My goal is always minimal handling so any time I can drag whole logs right up to the pile next to the boiler I will do it.
This video is not my best work, but it's my favorite technique for hauling whole logs around...
After I got these home the neighbor kid and me took the truck back and got a whole truckload out of the tops. The neighbor kid was skeptical of working in single digits, but he managed to break a sweat by the time we were done.
After we got back I started cutting/splitting the two logs. One was a silver maple. It split the second the wedge touched it. The other log, I am guessing, was elm. The 21 ton splitter grunted ALL the way through it and even then I couldn't rip it apart. I turned it 90 degrees and did it again, and again, and again. Still too stringy to rip apart. I just hooked a chain to it and drug it out behind the barn to fight with another day. I have plenty stack up to get through this cold spell and beyond.
Cool way to haul logs.. looks like a great way to do it. what size is your tractor??
I don’t mind the cold and like working in it.. just have to not break a sweat.
I cut a elm up but didn’t need to split it. Just chunked it up and load. That’s how I try to do it. Only split what won’t fit in the boiler door.
The ash I took down was about 25” across and I cut most of the rounds in the 12-15” range. Some longer as the tree narrowed. Those will burn most of the day. Thanks for sharing your video
Understand! I have a 950 30hp and a lot smaller. I don’t use it much for tree removal but about too. It’s 2wd and doesn’t do well in the snow so right now I don’t need it or try to use it much. I can get most places with the ranger and trailer and fell a tree and pull up to it and load.John Deere 2020. It's about 50 horsepower. With the filled rear tires and blade on the back it weighs a little under 10K pounds. Two logs like those with snow on the ground, it doesn't even work it very hard.
When you hook up multiples and have no snow, it's a little more challenging. Especially without the blade out back for additional ballast...
I too have burned tons of elm. This was my first attempt to split any. I used to just chunk up big pieces and muscle them through the door. But the older I get, the smaller I want them to be.