Sawyer Rob
Super Member
My Top two choices are, Wallenstein and Farmi.
SR
SR
Skidding logs is just the start. Then what?
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CobyRupert
Super Member
This thread got me thinking and counting on how many times I handle a piece of wood by hand after cutting a round from a log. They say wood heats you twice, but it's more like 4-6 (to 8, 9, 10!) times:
1) Ground to woodsplitter. (And really this could be multiple times if a big piece. Also there's often a pre-step 1 (ground to ground) when collecting a 10-20 minute supply around the splitter)
2) Woodsplitter to trailer
3) Trailer to outdoor (next year's) woodpile.
then a year later
4) (Next year's) outdoor woodpile to trailer.
5) Trailer to (this year) woodshed
6) Woodshed to wheelbarrel
7) Wheelbarrel to house
8) House to woodstove.
Whew!
I guess I really need a second woodshed to eliminate/combine steps 3-5 and knock the number of handling times down to only 6!!
But's it's my exercise program, double saving me a gym membership and fuel oil!
1) Ground to woodsplitter. (And really this could be multiple times if a big piece. Also there's often a pre-step 1 (ground to ground) when collecting a 10-20 minute supply around the splitter)
2) Woodsplitter to trailer
3) Trailer to outdoor (next year's) woodpile.
then a year later
4) (Next year's) outdoor woodpile to trailer.
5) Trailer to (this year) woodshed
6) Woodshed to wheelbarrel
7) Wheelbarrel to house
8) House to woodstove.
Whew!
I guess I really need a second woodshed to eliminate/combine steps 3-5 and knock the number of handling times down to only 6!!
But's it's my exercise program, double saving me a gym membership and fuel oil!
Musdalen
Gold Member
Of course, this is the way I do my firewood. The ONLY way.
adventure bob
Platinum Member
First I thought I was the only guy who paid $40K for an orange logging buck...
Made me review how I'm doing this as well. I have a grapple, and used to slash the logs where they fell. Realized it was more work to get the slash out of the woods than it was to slash it all in one place and just grapple the slash into the pile. Lot less trips.
1. Tree fell to log (3 cuts per tree)
2. Drag to landing (one chain wrap)
3. Limb (however many limbs are on the tree)
4. Buck (as many firewood size pieces in a tree)
5. Pile slash (grapple from tractor)
6. Pile firewood
7. Run slash through chipper
Made me review how I'm doing this as well. I have a grapple, and used to slash the logs where they fell. Realized it was more work to get the slash out of the woods than it was to slash it all in one place and just grapple the slash into the pile. Lot less trips.
1. Tree fell to log (3 cuts per tree)
2. Drag to landing (one chain wrap)
3. Limb (however many limbs are on the tree)
4. Buck (as many firewood size pieces in a tree)
5. Pile slash (grapple from tractor)
6. Pile firewood
7. Run slash through chipper
dickfoster
Elite Member
That's why I was looking at handling the wood on pallets. Split it and stack it in a pallet then haul the pallet to the woodshed with forks and again to get it to the house where you sit it down and unload it as you burn. Then keep shuffling pallets using the empty ones to load up at the splitter the next season. It would cut down a lot of handling, loading and restacking.
aarolar
Platinum Member
How much you got in those pallets and how long do they last?I load my splits into half cord boxes that I build,
that I can move with my tractor,
It's a HUGE time and back saver to cut the logs over a trailer, so don't overlook that.
BTW, my skidding winch lifts the logs high enough, that I have no need for a grapple.
SR
mohead1
New member
Nice tractor and equipment. I have a Kubota just a size smaller, would like to have a nice grapple but them things are high!!! Maybe some day
Sawyer Rob
Super Member
I build them myself, from 2x4's milled out of the low grade "top logs", and some screws and nails, so not much.
Some times I use PT wood for the bottom runners, if I find some for free someone is throwing away, because it's left over from their project.
I built the first one several years ago, and it's still going just fine, although they have evolved a little from the first one.
SR
Rustyiron
Super Member
I'm just about convinced myself to build a bunch of them Rob. Do you stack right into them off the splitter to dry? That would be my plan, eventually I'd need a few dozen+. That sure would save a lot of time for me, by the time I need it, my stacks are under snow & ice, and a chore just to get that stuff off the top. I do top cover with old barn metal, but my stacks are 6' tall. The pic say's it all!
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aarolar
Platinum Member
I have access to a lot of 4x8 wood skids from work I built one yesterday and it's a little less than a 1/2 cord finished size bit I don't think my tractor will handle a full cord of hardwood.
