Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[shooterdon]

Is the plastic tub used in totes UV resistant? I always store my tote inside (used to haul water, not wood).

That is a good question I had not considered. I am not sure if they are UV resistant but I expect they are as I have seen many stored outside. I am hoping to find a green paint (to match my building roofs) that will adhere to the plastic so they look better. The paint should address UV concerns as well.

 

[hunt4570]

I have a small ish house, about 2000 sq ft, I like the bedrooms cool so I mainly heat the living/kitchen area. I have a small free standing stove with wood storage underneath that I can keep a day or so's wood in, I built a rack out on the covered front porch to keep wood, its about ten steps from the stove inside..works for me.
And yes the rack is empty, and the storage space in the stove is storing the heat driven fan etc till heating season as its still in the 90's here.

 

[jk96]

This seems to work best for me. I hated picking everything up off the ground multiple times. With this setup everything is done at waste height other than setting the log on the splitter.

I usually use the graple and cut the logs to length right next to the splitter. An old 8ft plastic table gives me a place to push the splits onto and then once full into the cages.

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[Oldpath05]

We drop our firewood into the basement through a window,

where it stays right where it lands, near the woodstove. Next time anyone touches it, it's picked up and thrown in the stove...

SR

To me that would be a ideal situation for a 8' conveyor, and speaking of which, I cant seem to recall someone anyone here doing conveyor fire-wooding, maybe I'm the only one that thinks a firewood conveyor is handy dandy.....................

 

[Molalla1]

To me that would be a ideal situation for a 8' conveyor, and speaking of which, I cant seem to recall someone anyone here doing conveyor fire-wooding, maybe I'm the only one that thinks a firewood conveyor is handy dandy.....................

Oldpath I'll wager that Rob just needs it dropped down where it lands to use it because his stove is close by, and if his basement windows are anything like mine, they are hinged from the top.

 

[s219]

To me that would be a ideal situation for a 8' conveyor, and speaking of which, I cant seem to recall someone anyone here doing conveyor fire-wooding, maybe I'm the only one that thinks a firewood conveyor is handy dandy.....................

I would love one to get firewood on my front porch. Otherwise I have to carry it an armful at a time down a 25' sidewalk, up 5 steps, and to the corner of the porch. I keep telling my wife that once I get older and more eccentric, I am building some sort of crazy conveyor belt to get firewood up to the porch.

 

[Oldpath05]

Oldpath I'll wager that Rob just needs it dropped down where it lands to use it because his stove is close by, and if his basement windows are anything like mine, they are hinged from the top.

Just looked to me that a conveyor would do away with most of that bend over work, I hate bend-over work.................

 

[Oldpath05]

I would love one to get firewood on my front porch. Otherwise I have to carry it an armful at a time down a 25' sidewalk, up 5 steps, and to the corner of the porch. I keep telling my wife that once I get older and more eccentric, I am building some sort of crazy conveyor belt to get firewood up to the porch.

40 years ago I worked at a small fab shop and the boss had a 8' electric conveyor, it was single V trough with a hay conveyor chain going up the middle, made of 11 ga steel so wasn't to heavy. So one fall day when showed up to work the boss had me and another guy do exactly what SR is was doing, in short that thing work slick, just crab a stick and drop it, the stick would roll right into the v channel on the chain, ever since then I always thought some day and now I'm still saying that...................

 

[Jstpssng]

To me that would be a ideal situation for a 8' conveyor, and speaking of which, I cant seem to recall someone anyone here doing conveyor fire-wooding, maybe I'm the only one that thinks a firewood conveyor is handy dandy.....................

We used to the elderly couple on the corner get their firewood in each fall, going into the woods with a trailer behind the 8N and hauling it about 2/10 of a mile to the house. Their setup was quite similar to SR's. In the time that it took 3 of us to go load up the trailer (about 2/3 cord per trip), bring it down and unload it, his wife would have the previous load in the cellar. They lived there until he died at 80 with no central heat or running water, so I know that she didn't bring out a conveyor while we were gone.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Oldpath I'll wager that Rob just needs it dropped down where it lands to use it because his stove is close by, and if his basement windows are anything like mine, they are hinged from the top.

You are right, the splits land close to the stove.

The window frame ect. is steel, and the window is easy to take out and it doesn't get in the way.

When "I" throw the splits down, I get on my knees, so not much bending over for me. The truth is, my wife like throwing the splits down, so that's one job I don't do much of.

SR