Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[John_Mc]

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

The noisiest thing was the sound of the hydraulic pump.

 

[LD48750]

A friend of mine bought a cheap (reason #1) Harbor Freight electric splitter for use INSIDE (reason #2) his garage.
Quiet is a bonus.
We were/are both surprised how good it works.
He also runs an extension cord out to his wood pile & splits some out there.

 

[fruitcakesa]

I bought a 50 foot extension cord and have another 25 footer for my electric Ramsplitter and have 220volt outlets on my shop outside wall and in the garage so I can get to my woodpiles. I really like the the low noise and no fumes.
It is not a toy; I split 6 to 8 cords a year and have been using it regularly for the past 10 years.

 

[Jstpssng]

A friend of mine bought a cheap (reason #1) Harbor Freight electric splitter for use INSIDE (reason #2) his garage.
Quiet is a bonus.
We were/are both surprised how good it works.
He also runs an extension cord out to his wood pile & splits some out there.

I was looking at them in TSC this week, thinking it would be good to use inside. It was small, 8 tons or something like that but I only burn wood that splits easily anyways, and it was only a few hundred dollars.

 

[LD48750]

I was looking at them in TSC this week, thinking it would be good to use inside. It was small, 8 tons or something like that but I only burn wood that splits easily anyways, and it was only a few hundred dollars.

It may only be rated for 8 tons but it splits some mighty nasty & big stuff.

 

[Oldpath05]

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

:thumbsup: Ah you got that, guess your not hibernating........

 

[Oldpath05]

The noisiest thing was the sound of the hydraulic pump.

The nosiest part on my splitter is me when I drop a stick on my toe, the motor is loud to........

 

[Gordon Gould]

I got a thing here that I'm not sure is worth mentioning or not. Hopefully it will benefit someone, maybe you guys that are just starting to pull wood with your tractors. Anyway, I cut a small hitch that was made up of bent over trees so they were arch shaped. The iron wood (hophornbeam) tree on the top hooked way out and around to the right so that it was sticking out to the side at right angles to the rest of the hitch. Something like that can be a real problem. Often when a tree like that hits something solid or goes thru a narrow spot it will get pulled out of the hitch, or try to push the rear of your tractor around as it levers against the rest of the hitch, or the worst case scenario is hooking something tall and dead pulling it down on top of you from behind. So you shouldn't just leave it unless you are in a field. You could just cut it off or easier, cut it part way through so that it folds back when it meets some resistance like you can see happened in this hitch. You can do the same thing if you are pulling out tops with wide splayed forks. Cut partially thru one side of the fork so it folds back into a more compressed form. You save on setting chokers, get more in a hitch, and they are easier to pull.





gg

 

[fruitcakesa]

I got a thing here that I'm not sure is worth mentioning or not. Hopefully it will benefit someone, maybe you guys that are just starting to pull wood with your tractors. Anyway, I cut a small hitch that was made up of bent over trees so they were arch shaped. The iron wood (hophornbeam) tree on the top hooked way out and around to the right so that it was sticking out to the side at right angles to the rest of the hitch. Something like that can be a real problem. Often when a tree like that hits something solid or goes thru a narrow spot it will get pulled out of the hitch, or try to push the rear of your tractor around as it levers against the rest of the hitch, or the worst case scenario is hooking something tall and dead pulling it down on top of you from behind. So you shouldn't just leave it unless you are in a field. You could just cut it off or easier, cut it part way through so that it folds back when it meets some resistance like you can see happened in this hitch. You can do the same thing if you are pulling out tops with wide splayed forks. Cut partially thru one side of the fork so it folds back into a more compressed form. You save on setting chokers, get more in a hitch, and they are easier to pull.

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gg

Great suggestion, thaks.
I have lots of those "sweepers" in my woods and I have encountered most of the scenarios you mention and never once thought of partially cutting through to help out

 

[Oldpath05]

I got a thing here that I'm not sure is worth mentioning or not. Hopefully it will benefit someone, maybe you guys that are just starting to pull wood with your tractors. Anyway, I cut a small hitch that was made up of bent over trees so they were arch shaped. The iron wood (hophornbeam) tree on the top hooked way out and around to the right so that it was sticking out to the side at right angles to the rest of the hitch. Something like that can be a real problem. Often when a tree like that hits something solid or goes thru a narrow spot it will get pulled out of the hitch, or try to push the rear of your tractor around as it levers against the rest of the hitch, or the worst case scenario is hooking something tall and dead pulling it down on top of you from behind. So you shouldn't just leave it unless you are in a field. You could just cut it off or easier, cut it part way through so that it folds back when it meets some resistance like you can see happened in this hitch. You can do the same thing if you are pulling out tops with wide splayed forks. Cut partially thru one side of the fork so it folds back into a more compressed form. You save on setting chokers, get more in a hitch, and they are easier to pull.

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gg

Those are some crooked trees, what you doing with white birch? over here theres a mill that pays big bucks for white birch.

A few years ago I left a big 6"x 10' long limb on a oak log, when I winched it up the limb stayed vertical and thought no sense notch in to it, it will stay vertical, well that limb didn't stay vertical, I was going along in 4 low and when I came to the first corner, all of a sudden the front end went up in the air, it was an attention getter, I looked back and that limb swung down hooked on to a tree. I notch the limb then tried to winch, it wouldn't budge, didn't want to risk breaking cable so I cut in a little more, I winched again then the limb broke off, I ended up putting a chain on the limb and winch that up