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BowEd:
Harvesting hedge logs is hard on the body.I use a tractor with a bucket for large logs and that being able to drive up to the tree also.Dumping log onto a trailer or onto the yard.
Luckily I don't need to drive very far.
Badger:
--- Quote from: BowEd on October 20, 2022, 02:56:30 pm ---Harvesting hedge logs is hard on the body.I use a tractor with a bucket for large logs and that being able to drive up to the tree also.Dumping log onto a trailer or onto the yard.
Luckily I don't need to drive very far.
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Ed, if you were going to build a complete mobile station for harvesting and processing staves what would it look like?
willie:
--- Quote from: Badger on October 20, 2022, 05:19:06 pm ---complete mobile station for harvesting and processing staves what would it look like?
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Steve, define mobile.
Travel to different locations to process the logs into staves? in which case you would set up your splitter at a log landing and have to move the log some distance to the landing?
Take your splitter directly to the tree? In the same fashion one takes a Lucas Mill to the tree?
BowEd:
The long distance pick me up trailer Clint showed should work for large logs like that.There are electric winches with an extended arm that could be mounted into the back end of a pick up if one was serious about harvesting hundreds and hundreds of staves.Winch would get paid for itself in a month I imagine Steve.
I've found there's really no way to get around the work it takes to harvest a lot of staves at a time.I'm not one to be selling staves myself as I have other income,but I still like to keep 70 to 80 staves around anyway.I accomplish that by harvesting 6" to 12" logs at different periods of time.Handling them is easier.Replenishing the inventory periodically.
Dating staves with a magic marker.
The fencing companies in my area are always harvesting posts also showing huge piles of logs of various sizes for sale,but the old wood wasp can find those if laid around too long in warm weather too leading to more work to get to one ring.
Splitting them I keep a half dozen steel wedges around with a large sledge hammer.
Thing is when I walk away from my staves for good I'll have the bark and sapwood removed and have them shellacked back and ends.Even have them trimmed up using the band saw.That's where most of the work is anyway on collecting staves.
Getting them to the yard is only a fraction of the work.
TimBo:
It doesn't contribute anything useful to the discussion, but I keep thinking of the Super Axe Hacker when I read this thread, and I just can't resist saying so anymore...
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