Moved my log pile today

One of the joys of living down the road from my parents is the ability to bum their tools. I've had my father's new-to-him Bobcat S185 out on my property for the past week. Well, he wants it back, so I rented a rock grapple type attachment this morning to do the last pre-winter heavy machine work.

I moved roughly 4-5 cords worth of log length wood onto a couple skids in the backside of the property where I plan on bucking and splitting. I don't know how you guys can get perfect stacks of log-length wood. Mine is more of a "pile" than a stack, with logs sticking every which way . My main intention was getting 95% of it off of the dirt and into a central & permanent location for processing.

I still have random felled trees here and there that I didn't get to before I had to get back to the day job. So those will have to get bucked and thrown into a trailer to haul to the back.

This is addicting...

Hopefully I can get some pictures of my mess tomorrow and start doing some bucking, splitting (my favorite part), and stacking.

Don't you just love hydraulics ?
Will speed up the processing & be easier for sure

4 - 5 cords is more than a days work, have fun.
Almost feel sorry for you to have to move some with a trailer, but I don't LOL

The process all the way to stacking should create several pictures

My thought exactly Dave.
He's got cool equipment, some property, a bunch of trees........or so he says.

Haha, I'd go out and take pictures right now, but sadly I don't have electrical service out there yet. Thus, the pictures would be solid black at this time.

I hope I'll be pardoned if I produce pictures tomorrow

We will consider the pardon after we see the pics. Tell us about your dog. We know he exist from the pic. Looks like a mix between a Rot and a cattle dog, or something like that. Cool.

Here is another way to move logs if you don't have the bobcat. This cost me less than $10 to build.

He is an Australian Cattle Dog. Not registered, but he is pretty close to being a purebred. Quite the smart guy.

Most of my logs are in the 6-10" range. That sled might work decent if I put a half dozen on it. Might need to put a couple side rails on the front to do that.

Skidsteers rock! I love them!

A man of my word, I am.

For reference, here is my last post that showed where my log pile was before, as well as the slash pile before it was moved into the clearing:
http://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/my-pile-o-junk-land-clearing-pictures.92678

With the driveway behind me:


Turning to the right a bit:


Truck is to the right of this picture:


Path to the new wood pile location:


Some of the mess I didn't get to along the above path:


Like I said, I suck at making stacks of logs:



More of the soon-to-be processing area that still needs more clearing and cleaning:


Looking away from the wood pile area:


The house will be built right around where that slash pile is now.

Shane, if you look closely at the picture you'll see that there is a ratchet strap holding the logs on. For smaller logs, it will work the same; just strap it on. If need be, one could put 2 straps on but I doubt you would need it.

How do you get those monster logs on that thing anyways?

EDIT: with the right tools many times what appears to be hard work is child's play.

Great pics Shane.
That's gotta' be exciting.
When do you plan for the build to start?

Thanks Dave. We'll be getting 1/2 mile of power ran out to the property next year, along with the well and septic. Spring of '14 we'll get a construction loan to do the rest. Trying to avoid going in more debt than we have to.

That's a good plan.