Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

Thanks OP, I do have other trailers, but this firewood is being cut a year + ahead and I sure don't want to tie up a trailer for more than a year. I like to have 10 cords ready for winter...

What I do, is to leave it uncovered/piled to dry out much of the moisture, then in the dry time of summer of my burn season, it get's put in "half cord boxes" to finish drying.

My wife has a stressful job and she absolutely loves to go out on a nice day and fill these boxes at her own speed and absolutely refuses to let me help her...

Anyway, the splits finish out nicely in the boxes and they are easy to move with my tractor,

Usually a few weeks before we need the boxes, they get covered with a blue tarp that I pretty much get for free and those tarps last two or three years as I keep them out of the sun when not in use.

In the winter, it's easy to sweep the snow off and move the box to the house, to be thrown down through a basement window...

It all works out perfectly and the splits burn hot and creosote free......

SR

Those are great boxes and I think that's the best way to store extra firewood, in fact that's the way I'm gonna start doing some of my extra wood. I dont want to make a wood shed I'd rather stack the extra wood in boxes like yours and blue brown grey green tarp it, then move to the house with tractor when needed. I think my tractor can lift 1/4 cord, so 8 boxes for two extra cord, and that can be done when I get to it instead trying to get 9 cord at once, taking care of 7-8 cord of tree length firewood in one month is becoming just a little to much for me myself and I not counting the two extra.

 

[Oldpath05]

My cable is 8mm, seems so if I get a cable cutter big enough for 3/8 that would do it, anyone use one of these types of wire rope cutters>>> Heavy Duty Wire Rope Cutter 24" New in box SFD 7616531465 | eBay I like to have a good way to cut cable down in the woods, usually when I break my cable I have about 6' of fryed cable to try to whin back up so I can get the sliders back on, got to be carefull when looking at these cutters cause some are only made for alluminum and copper not steel wire rope.

 

[dragoneggs]

Anyone use one of these wire rope cutters>>> Heavy Duty Wire Rope Cutter 24" New in box SFD 7616531465 | eBay I like to have a good way to cut cable down in the woods, usually when I break my cable I have about 6' of fryed cable to try to whin back up so I can get the sliders back on, got to be carefull when looking at these cutters cause some are only made for alluminum and copper not steel wire rope.

I can't vouch for these, but a whole lot cheaper. Hoping someone could endorse them as I have reached for them at HF but never pulled the trigger. I would only need for once a year or less use.

24" Bolt/Cable/Wire Multicutter

 

[rdl]

I don't take nearly as many pictures as before, but this was one of my favs

 

[Sawyer Rob]

ALO loader, ALO grapple, NICE!!

SR

 

[goeduck]

I don't take nearly as many pictures as before, but this was one of my favs

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That yellow lid almost looks like a mirage, I can not see the support.

 

[dragoneggs]

That yellow lid almost looks like a mirage, I can not see the support.

No kidding... I'm still confused.

 

[rd_macgregor]

I didn't even notice the "floating" grapple...I was busy wondering where you got an all-grey Kubota L5740.

 

[BrokenTrack]

My cable is 8mm, seems so if I get a cable cutter big enough for 3/8 that would do it, anyone use one of these types of wire rope cutters>>> Heavy Duty Wire Rope Cutter 24" New in box SFD 7616531465 | eBay I like to have a good way to cut cable down in the woods, usually when I break my cable I have about 6' of fryed cable to try to whin back up so I can get the sliders back on, got to be carefull when looking at these cutters cause some are only made for alluminum and copper not steel wire rope.

I use a 4-1/2 inch angle grinder with a metal cut off wheel. The friction semi-melts the steel wire keeping it from fraying as bad as bolt cutters, and it is just a matter of putting the portable generator into the tractor bucket with an extension cord.

That might not suit some people I guess, but having a skidder, my days of wailing away on a sledgehammer against a guillotine cable cutter are over, especially with 5/8 high-strength cable!

 

[4570Man]

My cordless grinder is one of the more useful tools that I own. It's no replacement for a corded grinder but it would make quick work of a 5/8 cable.