Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[skyhook]

noodling....sounds like a viagra commercial.

 

[Baby Grand]

When I did the really big ones, for that matter I do all logs this way, I roll them over to the splitter which I have set in vertical mode. I don't pick up any log. My back is too old and has had too many spinal surgeries for lifting all day.

^That's what I do, too.
Roll all the rounds too heavy to comfortably lift to the splitter, which is set vertical.
Halve or quarter all the big rounds first, making noodles I can lift (thanks for that word).
Then flip the splitter horizontal and reduce them all to firewood and stack on pallets.

 

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^That's what I do, too.
Roll all the rounds too heavy to comfortably lift to the splitter, which is set vertical.
Halve or quarter all the big rounds first, making noodles I can lift (thanks for that word).
Then flip the splitter horizontal and reduce them all to firewood and stack on pallets.

You lucky guys with the vertical splitters. This is probably why you can't see a horizontal splitter at any of Box stores. It's as if they are going the way (oblivion) of the stick shift car and the geared tractor.

 

[Oldpath05]

I used to split my firewood like that on the earlier video, before I got a vertical wood splitter 25 years ago. I stood my blocks up on ends, saw down halfway, but I found it faster to wait until it's 10 below 0, then go outside with a tee shirt on, the wood is froze so it will split easier, and I'm froze so I'll split it faster.

 

[Oldpath05]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OaT40_K-A&list=UU5l0eo-1rmjqfxAt2LoegeQ&index=8
This is half the video with my L3400dt doing a little winching last year. Mele Kalikimaka

 

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Boy OPath I didn't realize how fast those little winches are. A cable skidder has very little over these speed wise to the 3 pt ones. One of the advantages however was that you didn't have to "dismount" the skidder to dog stems back up. I loved using cable skidders. Never got to drive the grapple ones as they came after I retired but I'm not sure how much I would like it because you couldn't unravel to gain a better purchase with the skidder like you can with the cable. I think I'd miss that too much.

 

[oldpilgrim]

^That's what I do, too.
Roll all the rounds too heavy to comfortably lift to the splitter, which is set vertical.
Halve or quarter all the big rounds first, making noodles I can lift (thanks for that word).
Then flip the splitter horizontal and reduce them all to firewood and stack on pallets.

Why go to horizontal? Pull up a 5 gal bucket, put a small pillow on it and split everything sittting down.

 

[NHbotanut]

VroomVroom, Yes those winches can go on the small tractors. here is a picture of my 24HP B7610 with a load this spring. The smaller tractor is just limited to the 3pt lifting weight. Using the winch is one of my favorite tools. I have used the winch to move some very big rocks, pull 2 cars out of ditches and move a shed.

 

[NHbotanut]

Heres the other one.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

My time as a logger precluded using the grapple type skidders almost everyone has now as opposed to the cable line skidders I worked with. If I can enlarge the scale, some things might be applicable to the smaller tractor skidders and again some may not. From guys I talk with now that transitioned into grapples, I get mixed reviews. Youngins who know of no other, don't seem to mind them calling them maneuverable and able to manipulate a hitch at will as far as picking and placing. Older guys seem to prefer the cable type with the biggest advantage of dropping the load to gain better purchase and traction for the skidder, and then reeling it all back up to the skidder once that has been accomplished. Where an aspect might not be applicable comparing cable to grapple for smaller tractors is the ability to carry multiple stems. A skidder grapple has a pretty wide maw and as a result, can take a wide bite of stems. This may or may not present a problem with a small compact type grapple depending on the diameter of the stems or the size of the grapple. One of the largest advantages of the grapple is not having a guy or the driver having to unmount to relieve chokers on the landing. Other complaints of the skidder grapple is of dropping stems that might not have pressure against them with an errant bite of the grapple on a larger hitch. For a home owner? I guess it all depends on how a guy logs his property or how long a return might be if one cannot grab multiple stems. Sure might be handy not to have to dismount to unhitch on short skids.

I like my cable winch. I sometimes turn 5 or 6 8 foot log sideways chain them and lift them out of the ground and go to the landing keeping the log clean. Also I find the cable winch is good for hung up trees. I also have a log trailer that hitches to my the winch. I winch them in and onto the trailer. I arrive at the landing with at least 1/2 cord of clean 8 foot logs