Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Creamer]

I have a few good friends and we share all of our vehicles/tools/etc. I just took my box scraper down to a friend's place and spent the day grading his gravel drive. But if he'd have wanted to do it when I wasn't available, I'd have just given him the implement.

The only reason I didn't take my whole tractor down is because my trailer hasn't arrived yet. But when it does, I wouldn't hesitate to hitch the trailer to my truck, load the tractor and implements on it, and hand the keys to him. I know that he'd do the same for me. For instance, if my wife decided that we needed to spend the day cruising one of the local lakes, I bet that I could drop by his place and hitch his boat to my truck anytime he's not using it.

Another friend of mine has a modified Subaru STI and a Miata he's done an engine-swap in. Every year or two, I'll take one of those and he'll take my M3 or Lotus for a couple weeks. We both get some more variety by enjoying each others' toys.

I believe that everybody's life gets a lot better if we all try to work together!

That is wonderful! I wholeheartedly agree with your last line.

 

[aeblank]

I have a few good friends and we share all of our vehicles/tools/etc. I just took my box scraper down to a friend's place and spent the day grading his gravel drive. But if he'd have wanted to do it when I wasn't available, I'd have just given him the implement.

I believe that everybody's life gets a lot better if we all try to work together!

I love friends like that. Probably somebody you could say "hey, I need a grand" and you'd have it.
Speaking of which, I need more millionaire friends....

 

[cartod]

Began next winters splitting and stacking.

 

[Phil48]

I believe that everybody's life gets a lot better if we all try to work together!

Great spirit!

 

[Phil48]

I believe that everybody's life gets a lot better if we all try to work together!

Great spirit!

 

[Budweiser John]

I'd be concerned that the bags would restrict airflow around the wood and ****** drying.

I've not found that to be a problem. The bags are a very heavy duty poly material woven with slits so air can circulate and moisture can escape. Since the wood is tossed randomly in the bag the surface contact between each split is much less than with stacked wood and setting the bags on pallets every piece dries and is burnable.

 

[Buggs67]

Or a friend who looks after good equipment when loaned to them, so that it comes back as good equipment too.

I don't tend to borrow tools. And there are some things I won't loan, like my chainsaw or logsplitter. Partly cuz I don't want someone to get injured thru inexperience. When you get my log splitter,you get me to operate it.

 

[KiwiBro]

I just show them my somewhat truncated finger and most decide against borrowing my splitter

 

[Jim Timber]

17" butt end, the top 12' was still stuck in the other trees from breaking off as I dragged it down from being snagged.

 

[kiotiken]

In at least one of the links I saw, the bags were vented all the way around. I don't have enough tractor to pick one up full of wood, but my father-in-law does. I'm thinking about ordering a dozen for him as a gift to see how they work.

That might have been me, I've been using these bags for about 5 years. I can say wood dries better in them than wood that was stacked. I don't know about those poly bags but they'd be much nicer to fill. My supplier sells the mesh bags in 200 bag bundles but has split bundles for me in the past. 50 was the minimum I ever ordered though, not sure you'll find only a dozen.