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Makeing Firewood Today

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Well, No big trailer loads of wood to show tonight. Spent the day blocking up the remenents of one landing, and got a big start on pulling logs out of the pile on another landing that I use in the wood lot.
Since I work alone, I have to make my firewood in phases. Fell and skid logs to landing, phase 1. Winch logs out of log pile at landing with gin pole on splitter, and block the logs at landing, phase 2. And phase 3, split and load wood onto trailer to take home from woods.
Today was a phase 2 day, pulling logs from pile with the gin pole on my 3pt splitter and blocking the logs close to the roadway. Tomarrow wil be a phase 3 day. Set blocks that I can lift on splitter, and watch split peices go up elevaror onto dump trailer. The gin pole with grapple winch picks up the heavy blocks and sets them on the splitter bed.
Loren
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You have taken some work out of this with your ingenuity but it is still a lot of work. You make that little Kabota do a lot of work for as small as it is.

There needs to be a horse there to eat all of that sawdust and make you some more fire wood.
 
Loren,in first picture, the log on the right, how long is that log? What kind of wood is it--looks like ash by looking at the bark. I have some ash 60 feet tall with no branches up 40 feet, but won't cut them until they die of old age or they get hollow and fall over. Nice system you have and good equipment to handle it all. Be careful and be safe.
 
wd9,
That log was pushing 40' long and was Ash. The tree was standing dead. I like cutting this time of year so I can see what trees are healthy, and which ones arn't. I cut very discriminently, and try to cause as little colateral damage in the woods as posible.
the Kubota B2150 works really nice in the woods, and yes, I do expect a lot from it, and it always delivers.
As you can see in pics. the 2500# winch/ginpole atop the splitter can tip the tractor over if no common sense is observed.
Loren
 
Loren, You are spot on those little Kubota's, It is amazing what they will do. I've had 5 or 6 over the last 30 yrs. I had a little 20 hp. 2cy. that was on the first boat load to come over in the early 70's (L200). It was a little beast. I have a L275 now, about 30hp.
 
Gary, unfortunately I'll bet our Emerald Ash Borer makes it to MN and your ash trees before they die of old age. I have lots to cut that fall down that have been dead for 5 or so years already. I don't need to cut any of the standing ones, there is so many that fall each year I might as well let then stand and stay dry. They last a long time standing, not so long once they hit the ground. Mine were big, beautiful ash trees, most 24"-40" and between 60-70' tall.
 
That's some nice looking firewood your making there! I cut an enormous ash the winter before last and I'm just splitting the leftover blocks this week,holy jumpins are they ever hard. Some of them I have to cut half way through with the chain saw before the 3 pt splitter will even think of going through them.
 
The tail goes with the hide. anything down to 1-1/2" is cut to length and included in the mix. Nothing goes to waste. Just happens in pic that the logs were tall dead ash and had very few small limbs left on them. I top the logs and drag the tops out also. They just wern't in the pics.
Loren
 
Short of blocking the trees where I drop them. and then haveing to lift heavy blocks and carry them to a trailer through berries and brush, and then unload them to split them, I haven't found a way to reduce handling. When the block goes on the splitter at a landing it gets split and loaded on the trailer or PU without further lifting without me touching it intil I stack it for storage. Unless you are a comercial operator makeing wood with a processor, there are no shortcuts to harvesting, processing and storeing firewood for heating purposes.
Loren
 
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