Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[John_Mc]

Not very exciting. Wood shed at the cabin was getting low. On the hunt for some birch for next year and some standing dead spruce for this year. Not really that far ahead, but don't burn more than a cord through a typical winter.
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That sounds like decoration heat, must not take long get a winters supply out with winch, I go through 8 cord from Nov-June. Looks like an electric wood splitter out in the middle of the woods, probably solar powered.

Well, he mentioned it was "at the cabin", so I'm assuming it's not a full-time residence. I have several friends with "woods cabins" around here that use a cord or less a year.

I used to own a 16 ton electric woodsplitter. It was Ramsplitter that was basically their 16 or 20 ton gas splitter with a 2HP electric motor in place of the 5 or 6 HP gas engine. It worked fairly well, and was quiet enough that I could split wood and still keep an eye on the kids when they were little running around the yard and catching frogs in the pond. When my wife complained about the wood chips piling up in the area, I started using it in the woods with a generator (a good excuse to get my generator some exercise). I eventually sold it for a larger, gas-powered splitter with a hydraulic lift. It's 15+ years old and still going strong to the friend I sold it to. He mainly buys round wood and splits it himself right near his woodshed. Neither of us has done a thing to it for maintenance since it was new other than changing the hydraulic fluid once.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I didn't go out yesterday in the rain to look for mud but this morning things are stiffened up and pretty icy on the main road. My woods roads aren't bad though, either bare or crusty.



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[Greenland South]

The cabin property is definitely a part time residence. Maybe 6-8 days a month during the winter.
The wood splitter used to be used when we owned a home on 5 acres. Never needed anything bigger because all I ever cut was poplar. But it will split about anything I can find in this area. And now its at the cabin but a generator is required as the place is off grid.

 

[Oldpath05]

Can you quiet it down in here! I'm trying to hibernate!!

SR

Hibernate, wife said you eat like a bear so no you is one but dont we have wood to cut for something or did you get rain out to..............

 

[Oldpath05]

Yup, that did the job!:thumbsup: Hibernation is over..

Yup I knew I had his number, didn't even have to use his area code on the front of his tractor..........

 

[Oldpath05]

Jstpssng Got a good view of the moon tonight? If you look close you might see ET, the weather man said the moon aint full til 12:12 AM or 12-12-12:12 AM. The first pic was at 4:45, next was now-ish.

 

[Jstpssng]

I got a good look at it coming out of the woods tonight. I could almost shut my headlights off and drive without them... almost.
This is also supposed to be one of the best weeks to watch the meteor shower.

 

[Oldpath05]

Well, he mentioned it was "at the cabin", so I'm assuming it's not a full-time residence. I have several friends with "woods cabins" around here that use a cord or less a year.

I used to own a 16 ton electric woodsplitter. It was Ramsplitter that was basically their 16 or 20 ton gas splitter with a 2HP electric motor in place of the 5 or 6 HP gas engine. It worked fairly well, and was quiet enough that I could split wood and still keep an eye on the kids when they were little running around the yard and catching frogs in the pond. When my wife complained about the wood chips piling up in the area, I started using it in the woods with a generator (a good excuse to get my generator some exercise). I eventually sold it for a larger, gas-powered splitter with a hydraulic lift. It's 15+ years old and still going strong to the friend I sold it to. He mainly buys round wood and splits it himself right near his woodshed. Neither of us has done a thing to it for maintenance since it was new other than changing the hydraulic fluid once.

You think an electric splitter uses less electricity then a 5hp Briggs splitter uses gas? I dont know how big of tank is on mine but I easily use over half tank on one load of wood or 1/2 cord to fill my Rhino and trailer. Of course quiet wood splitting wood be nice and sounds great............

 

[John_Mc]

You think an electric splitter uses less electricity then a 5hp Briggs splitter uses gas?

No idea, but energy usage was not why I bought it anyway. My two main reasons: one less gas engine to maintain, and quiet. Eventually, the "one less gas engine" lost out to "I need to use this in remote places, and hauling a generator around is a PITA."

 

[hunt4570]

You think an electric splitter uses less electricity then a 5hp Briggs splitter uses gas? I dont know how big of tank is on mine but I easily use over half tank on one load of wood or 1/2 cord to fill my Rhino and trailer. Of course quiet wood splitting wood be nice and sounds great............

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NO!! It doesn't sound at all!!