Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[4570Man]

The small stuff isn't so bad in whole tree form. Once it gets cut up loaded on a dump truck and dumped out its a real pain to deal with. I just burn a lot of it. I usually don't take it unless I get paid. They delivered this so its easy enough. And the covered work area nice.

 

[dragoneggs]

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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Absolutely love that first pic!

 

[Jstpssng]

The small stuff isn't so bad in whole tree form. Once it gets cut up loaded on a dump truck and dumped out its a real pain to deal with. I just burn a lot of it. I usually don't take it unless I get paid. They delivered this so its easy enough. And the covered work area nice.

Every fall when I was growing up we used to hook the trailer up to the 8N and help the older couple down the road get the firewood in which they had cut in the spring. They would go out into their old grown in field, cut and put up second growth red maple. While he cut with the old Homelite XL12 she would cut the limbs up with an axe, all of the way down to the size of your little finger.
He was from Sweden, where you are required to take everything if you cut a tree.

 

[Thomas]

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Sooo little snow.

 

[Gordon Gould]

This is the size I hate. Way to much time to work it up w/o being set up for small wood. But it burns. This is road side clean up after the power line crew can through and trimmed out the line.





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[Paystar]

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Sooo little snow.

Some are old pics. It's snowing again right now. Wish it would go away, LOL. But then again when it does I'll have to deal with mosquitoes.

 

[BrokenTrack]

This is the size I hate. Way to much time to work it up w/o being set up for small wood. But it burns. This is road side clean up after the power line crew can through and trimmed out the line.

I agree with you 100%...

They are so small that it seems almost a waste to put a choker around them, yet for me (who clears land), leaving them means they make a mess when they are bulldozed into a pile. I fabricated a homemade feller-buncher to deal with this size trees, just to get it off the land, yet chunked up into firewood so it has some use. I'll use it to clean up the margins of my fields too, but have yet to build the firewood chunker for it. I have to build a rotary stick rake first, then will get to fabricating the firewood chunker. When I get these (2) machines done, firewood will be 100% mechanized for me. I have been waiting for 43 years for that!

 

[BrokenTrack]

This is a firewood chunker...

 

[BrokenTrack]

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.

I am not sure how far away you are from the house, but you can always swing by and check out my forks. They are homemade, but use very little steel and have worked flawlessly for 20 years. If you need help welding them up, I could help you. I am a retired welder, though Bath iron Works welders don't have the greatest reputation. Still every ship I build is still floating.

 

[Oldpath05]

I am not sure how far away you are from the house, but you can always swing by and check out my forks. They are homemade, but use very little steel and have worked flawlessly for 20 years. If you need help welding them up, I could help you. I am a retired welder, though Bath iron Works welders don't have the greatest reputation. Still every ship I build is still floating.

I'm still welding there, 31 years and counting, I can assure anyone there are some great welders at BIW, second to none especially the tig pipe welders, I tried that and didn't pass the die test so I stayed in the machine welding of bars and shell plates. Some of these guys I work with weld .045 solid wire vertical up and it comes out like perfectly stacked dimes and lot of it, every day, all day long, me I go to Dual Shield flux core for up welding. Every inch of weld is spatter free and a lot of welding is done with mirrors<<<that will separate the men from boys really quick.