chopping and hauling firewood

[randyo]

[airshot]

  Nice to see pics of our machines at work and play. Thanks for posting. Any particular reason for dragging the sled vs a wheeled trailer? Just curious here.....

[randyo]

sled tows much easier than a wheeled trailer in the woods and can haul more weight , too many ruts, stumps and rocks that act as wheel chocks

my first sled Shappell Jet Sled XLhttp://www.shappell.com/sleds.html saw much lighter duty and lasted my 5 seasons and hauled over 30 cords of wood, the sled was light enuf, that it could be pulled by hand if necessary



my current sled is an Otter Pro Magnum,  way to heavy to pull by hand, the load you see is probably 900-100 lbs
( replaceable hyfax runners)https://www.otteroutdoors.onlineofficesystem.com/details.php?prodID=105

4 years and 20-25 cords of wood and its still like new, prolly have to replace the runners next year

[airshot]

   Now that is quite interesting, never thought of the woods creating wheel chocks!!  I have a smaller version of a similar sled used for ice fishing, but never thought of pulling it over land. By the way the scenery looks great, wish I had something like that in my backyard...

[randyo]

   Now that is quite interesting, never thought of the woods creating wheel chocks!!  I have a smaller version of a similar sled used for ice fishing, but never thought of pulling it over land. By the way the scenery looks great, wish I had something like that in my backyard...

I have the Jet Sled Jr, that I use to drag my felling equipment



I only have 2 acres, and its mostly eastern white pine, yet I have managed to find 3-5 cords of hardwood firewood for the past 35 years, and I still have plenty left, I did one pine harvest about 20 years ago, I cut 13 trees and had about 11,000 feet of lumber milled, enuf to build my barn

planning on another similar sized pine & hemlock harvest, may be an oak or 2 as well, I want to build a wood shed, gazebo and small cabin

[airshot]

  You have an awesome looking site there. I have 5 acres but just open field with a small sprinkle of trees and a pond.  Anything with a woods in my area is really, really big bucks!

[randyo]

  You have an awesome looking site there. I have 5 acres but just open field with a small sprinkle of trees and a pond.  Anything with a woods in my area is really, really big bucks!

I have a goal to dig a small pond, I would have to line it with some type of impermeable barrier to keep water in as well as dig a well for a water supply, no problem getting water though as I am adjacent to a shallow gravel pack aquifer

I have been improving my timberstand, and have several eastern white pine that are at "king's mast" proportions, many are too big for what saw mills want to take for milling into dimension lumber, I don't have any 200 footers, but getting close

timber harvest I have planned will take down a couple 150'+ pines that are a little over 30"dbh