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Don't move them in the winter?

 

[4570Man]

Don't move them in the winter?

That doesn’t seem like a very useful solution since it’s firewood.

 

[aeblank]

That doesn’t seem like a very useful solution since it’s firewood.

Somewhat smartassed, I know. You showed more restraint than I'd have had. Hehe.

Though, really..... I lose my loader in the winter due to my snowblower. I move that winters wood into the woodshed and position other "backup" pallets before winter sets in.

Putting a sacrificial pallet down first is likely your best solution without changing the way you do everything.

 

[Creamer]

I am not sure why I did not think of using a pallet but why not. they shouldn't freeze hard together.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I hate using pallets under things, sooner or later you will leave a nail or three behind... At least in our winter weather that's the way it happens...

I'd just put a piece of firewood under the corners, and pick it up later to burn...

SR

 

[4570Man]

I cut and split a trailer load of wood for my grandpa. It’s a 5x8 trailer so a tad less than a cord. People were probably questioning my hauling method.

 

[Creamer]

I cut and split a trailer load of wood for my grandpa. It’s a 5x8 trailer so a tad less than a cord. People were probably questioning my hauling method. View attachment 535176View attachment 535177

Not at all. Much easier to throw it in a low trailer than up into a truck.

 

[4570Man]

Not at all. Much easier to throw it in a low trailer than up into a truck.

Way easier to load, but way harder to unload. I don’t unload his though. I just back the trailer up to the porch and leave it until it’s burnt. The other problem in that instance is my truck would have been stuck. I pulled the trailer in and out with the tractor.

 

[motownbrowne]

Been working on a job for a good friend. Took down about a dozen oaks of various sizes that were dead from oak wilt. Now we're bucking and splitting. Just like Sawyer Rob does it, we're loading logs onto the trailer, bucking and then rolling/scooting to the splitter. From there it's just a pivot down to the beam with a round in hand. Works pretty good. There were three of us today, so one guy stacking splits from the pallet table they get pushed onto, one guy alternating between stacking and moving rounds to the splitter, and me splitting.

 

[Loaderman22]

When I store my full pallets out of the way until I am ready to burn them, I do what Sawyer Rob suggested, I toss a split log under the corners before I load them. This does two things for me, one it keeps the pallets up out of the frozen mud, but also I move these all season long, so the extra height under the pallet gives me a greater margin of error with the pallet forks in the deep snow. I'm less likely to put a fork tine through the pallet, learned that the first year the hard way. Much less damage to ground or machine if a rogue log is left behind, you only drive over a log, not an entire pallet.