Vintage Skidoo for hauling wood

[FrankG]

Although tons of images of a vintage sled are not really "otherpower" related there is a section on a trailer that was built for hauling wood out of the bush...

The link below is how I've been trying to gain enough distance from the failed HD generator to return and face starting from scratch...

http://www.theworkshop.ca/ruralskills/Skidoo/skidoo.htm

In actual fact I've been doing a run of castings as well as other jobs...

[willib]

frank , what is ironwood? never heard that term before..

[nelson]

I used to cut wood, I never liked cutting ironwood trees.

I swear you can see sparks coming off your chain saw blade

when cutting them. Guess, thats why they nickname iron wood.

Have good day

[Fiddlehead44]

The American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) is a small hardwood tree in the genus Carpinus. American Hornbeam is also occasionally known as blue-beech, (ironwood), or musclewood. It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario east to Maine, and south to eastern Texas and northern Florida.

                Fiddlehead44.

P.S. I cut some last spring. Burns nicely.

[FrankG]

We had Iron wood "Back-Home" in central Ontario (when I was a kid), but it grows like a weed out here in eastern Ontario.

It's a very very dense hardwood, that may grow to 20ft tall, not quite as knarly as oak, but does tend to have a twisted knobby appearance by times...

I too have heard the myth about seeing sparks, but the only sparks I've seen is from a tree that grew through a fence, and I found the old wire the hard way.