I am also thinking about welding up a small set of brush forks to mount on the reinforced Farmall Cub snowplow frame, after I pull off the plow for the off-season. My hedgerows are loaded with dead ash trees and that would allow me to quickly process them into firewood, and clear the fields, as they fall.
I prefer to let those dead ash trees fall on their own, because they are too unpredictable to try and fell with a chainsaw. I’ve heard of several experienced woodcutters who were killed while doing that.
The brush forks would let me push the small limbs out of the fields and into the hedgerows. I can drag the firewood logs up next to my bucking trailer with chains using the Cub’s drawbar. Most in the hedgerows are 10-20” diameter at the base, perfect size for firewood. There’s some 30 inchers in my woods and I’ll just let them rot where they fall.
I’ve been using my larger tractors with forks bolted under the bucket for that job, but it is a pain taking my bush-hog off of that, for dragging logs from the back.
Global warming has put a stop to my winter firewood making season. This is the second consecutive winter where the ground never froze. I don’t suppose I’ll ever see that again. That means I got to get all of my firewood made in the dry part of the summer, which is also peak bush-hogging time.
With a little set of forks on the front, the drawbar on back, and a nice chainsaw/chain box on the side (I already made that), that Cub should be pretty handy for summer firewood duty.