Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

How would a manure spreader work on unloading dirt/rock and gravel? Inquiring mines want to know......

 

[Jstpssng]

I'm not getting that at all, I lift my FEL all way up I can get at most everything including battery, battery box, battery cables, batrry microwave battery coffee maker and filters. I'm sure my tractor would be more nimble to but useless I'm constantly using the FEL for something. Level ground, whats that??????????

How do you keep it from coming down though? I believe that in the past you have mentioned something on the loader pistons to keep them from retracting.
My 275 didn't have a detachable loader, so I would raise the bucket as high as it would go and lean it against a tree. The only way it could drop on me then was if the loader failed and the tree fell over, both at the same time.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

How do you keep it from coming down though? I believe that in the past you have mentioned something on the loader pistons to keep them from retracting.

The better loaders come with a formed pieces of angle, that strap on the piston rod, to stop them if the loader tries to fall...

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Oh sure, it will work, and in fact it was probably one of the best things we ever did for firewood production.

For us, we went one step further and put our woodsplitter on the hitch, driving it with a PTO Prince Hydraulic pump. In this manner after cutting rounds off the firewood pile, we would pick up the wood, split it, toss the split wood into the bed of the manure spreader with beaters and axle driven bed-chain unhitched, then back into the woodshed, and using a hand lever on a cam, would crank the wood back to us instead of moving forward to grab the wood.

It really reduced handling of firewood.

I just reduce the work even further, by splitting right into the spreader.

The splitter pushes the splits right off the end, right into the spreader, so even less handling of the wood.

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

How would a manure spreader work on unloading dirt/rock and gravel? Inquiring mines want to know......

It works on a spreader that's in good shape, but it's quite hard on the chain ect. as the dirt grinds away on everything.

SR

 

[hunt4570]

100 hr motor oil change, brand?

100 hr change?? Kubota of course!!

 

[hunt4570]

I hate getting stuck with no FEL on!!

Totally agree!!

 

[hunt4570]

I hate getting stuck at all, but the times I've been stuck the hardest it wouldn't have come out without the loader pulling on a chain, with the other end on a solid tree.

I just push mine out with the loader.. hasn't let me down yet...

dang!! never should have said that!

 

[hunt4570]

I'm not getting that at all, I lift my FEL all way up I can get at most everything including battery, battery box, battery cables, batrry microwave battery coffee maker and filters. I'm sure my tractor would be more nimble to but useless I'm constantly using the FEL for something. Level ground, whats that??????????

I can get to all of that with the loader on the ground!

 

[Shutesbury]

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Load 2 this afternoon.
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Boy are they strict in NY! In MA we don't have to put flammable placarding on our firewood!! :laughing: