Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[4570Man]

I cut a pretty good pile of firewood today. This is mostly tree guy logs that were delivered to my place. I sure got more cut with my 372xp than my helper did with his Stihl. Ok I like bashing Stihl, but in all fairness my saw is double the CCs his was.

 

[Jstpssng]

I am sure SR and MossRoad can work with long forks like they say but like I said - Not For Me because I have trouble. For grabbing round bales and stacks of lumber they are great but the forks always seem to be in my way and way to cumbersome for use as a grapple. And if I want to grab a log on the end like SR shows I have to grab it 4 times before I get it dead center so it doesn't ride up the forks or s..t out the bottom. I am just not cut out for them.

gg

As Moss said; besides, if I can do it with my el cheapo Titans, you can. I do have enough steel to move the forks wider which will help with balancing trees; I'm not so sure about my welding ability though. Yet I still will probably go with a single lid EA grapple for several reasons.
- I have a lot of small stumps, rocks, et al that I am going to be moving. Even people who have grapples are saying that smaller things fall through.
-Price. I haven't found a grapple for my forks which are much less than the EA unit.
-Convenience. This summer we will be cleaning up my Father's estate. I can have my grapple here and leave my forks on his L2800, which is 200 miles away.
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SR is rather proud of his fork grapple as he should be, it's a nice setup. Yet his Agco loader could probably pick my little 'Bota up and toss it over the woodpile.

 

[lpigott]

let us know how the stump grinder works. i've been wanting one, but instead i save up a lot of stumps and then go rent a stump grinder, pick it up at 5 fri and as long as i have it back mon at 9 and use less than 8 hrs they only charge me one day

Will do, I have lots of work for it. For most this one would work best with HST tractor since the travel speed each pass over the stump needs to be slow. My tractor is over the power rating of the grinder but I plan on running it in E-PTO and I have creeper gears which I think is going to work well with this unit.

 

[square1]

Watch this:
Starting at 05:38

I'm worn out from watching!
There are some large (>1") cables partially buried in the creek bank out in the woods. They're part of the remains of a late 1800s / early 1900s mine. It had never, until watching that, dawned on me that someone had to cut those to length without power tools

 

[PhysAssist]

I'm worn out from watching!
There are some large (>1") cables partially buried in the creek bank out in the woods. They're part of the remains of a late 1800s / early 1900s mine. It had never, until watching that, dawned on me that someone had to cut those to length without power tools

Yep- even with a decent hack saw, that would be a nightmare...

 

[Paystar]

Doing some firewood at home with both my Toyota powered home made splitter and my son with the 25 ton Forest King, the B2620 and my 2004.5 Polaris Sportsman 500 H.O. (when Polaris used to be good, not like my 2 new lemons that I only use when I have to.)

 

[Paystar]

And some deadfall cleanup last spring.

 

[Paystar]

And to get the wood, you gotta make the roads.

 

[4570Man]

I got most of the logs I had on hand cut up. I got all the little stuff which I hate dealing with cut and the last sawmill throw away log which was about 24" diameter cut.

 

[goeduck]

I got most of the logs I had on hand cut up. I got all the little stuff which I hate dealing with cut and the last sawmill throw away log which was about 24" diameter cut.

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You sure have a lot of nice covered space to work your wood. jeolous. :sigh:

On the small stuff I cut it all the way down to the size of my forearm. I call it arm wood and use it to start a fire with a piece of fire starter. I do not use kindling or paper.