Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[4570Man]

The best traction is 100 percent irrelevant to transmission. That’s a tires, weight, ground condition game. I’ll chain your L3400 to my M59 anytime even with my R4 tires. You can’t overcome the 2x1 weight disadvantage. As to percent of engine power put to the ground yes a gear wins by a little bit. But I don’t care about that. I’m a lot more worried about my back power not put to the ground. If I can do a precise job the geared can’t do that’s a huge win in my book.

 

[Oldpath05]

Do you want to bring your gear tractor over and see how good you can back fill a garage? I see a lot of shoveling or laying block back in your future. I used an excavator on this one because it was the best option I had but a geared tractor would be about the worst. After you get done doing that we can dump some septic rock. You’ve already failed and so did my backhoe because it’s stuck but the tracked skid kept on working. Even if the conditions were dry dumping the gravel to avoid a lot of shoveling is pretty precise work.
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So you saying your hydro got stuck and you need a gear tractor to pull you out, that sounds about right. Back filing is precise work and only a good operator can do that, I see some precision excavator work on road crews, they are good at what they do. So you should stick go-pro up on the next job and show how precise you really are, oh I forgot cameras makes you nervous too.

Whats the picture on the right with wet dirt about?

 

[Oldpath05]

I'll finish correcting you tomorrow hydro man................

 

[4570Man]

So you saying your hydro got stuck and you need a gear tractor to pull you out, that sounds about right. Back filing is precise work and only a good operator can do that, I see some precision excavator work on road crews, they are good at what they do. So you should stick go-pro up on the next job and show how precise you really are, oh I forgot cameras makes you nervous too.

Whats the picture on the right with wet dirt about?

That’s where the backhoe was “stuck”. It wasn’t stuck but it couldn’t work. It’s hard to do anything when the front axle is on the ground. The tracked skid didn’t have any problem working.

 

[VroomVroom]

Yea I left that hydro part out of the first part. Even if it had a loader that dry clutch with only a few gears to make matters worse would still be completely useless for me.

I'd imagine a clutch in a hydro transmission would last much longer than in a geared tractor. but I never hear of that being so. Once you push in the clutch that first time to shift the tractor into gear, the clutch is engaged and stays engaged no matter if your changing directions forward and back. And you can even stop the tractor to a dead halt and the clutch is still engaged, eliminating the need to engage the clutch again when you need to move again.

 

[hunt4570]

You can have all of those you want. Anything without a loader is useless to me.

Definitely agree with that one.. Other than a little guy with a dedicated mower on it would be nice.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I was driving along last Friday and I saw this. So I stopped to see what was going on. An 85 year old gentleman came walking across the road to check me out and tell some stories. He said one thing he always wanted to do was put all his tractors all in a line to see what they looked like all at once. He said I should have come by a few days ago because all 14 of them were there but he couldn't leave them long because he had a lot work to get done. All early 50's vintage working IH/Farmall tractors and a story for each one. Like -"I traded a gallon of maple syrup for that one. Then my wife went wild when I spent $1000 on a new injection pump. I use it for pulling wood".



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[Jstpssng]

I was driving along last Friday and I saw this. So I stopped to see what was going on. An 85 year old gentleman came walking across the road to check me out and tell some stories. He said one thing he always wanted to do was put all his tractors all in a line to see what they looked like all at once. He said I should have come by a few days ago because all 14 of them were there but he couldn't leave them long because he had a lot work to get done. All early 50's vintage working IH/Farmall tractors and a story for each one. Like -"I traded a gallon of maple syrup for that one. Then my wife went wild when I spent $1000 on a new injection pump. I use it for pulling wood".



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That could be Soundguy with all of his Fords... except that each would also have an attachment hooked up.

 

[Thomas]

I was driving along last Friday and I saw this. So I stopped to see what was going on. An 85 year old gentleman came walking across the road to check me out and tell some stories. He said one thing he always wanted to do was put all his tractors all in a line to see what they looked like all at once. He said I should have come by a few days ago because all 14 of them were there but he couldn't leave them long because he had a lot work to get done. All early 50's vintage working IH/Farmall tractors and a story for each one. Like -"I traded a gallon of maple syrup for that one. Then my wife went wild when I spent $1000 on a new injection pump. I use it for pulling wood".

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That TD dozer would fit your needs.

 

[shooterdon]

Just an update on our firewood progress this year.

I reported a while back that I rented a processor and my fiancé and I took 12 loggers cords and turned them into splits in 15 hours. Not bad for our first attempt and should do better next time. Here is a picture of what it looked like:



Using our our modified IBC totes we have it stacked and ready. The totes in front of the garage sit on the south facing wall and get sun most of the day to speed drying. Those totes should last us this season.



The rest are under a large oak tree and will be enough for most of next year. We will rent the processor in the spring and do another 10-12 cords.



We decided we would not bother cutting rounds and splitting the usual way after our experience with the processor. Sold the splitter for $650 and glad to see it gone. Our cost to rent the process was $450 for 16 hours. Due to weather, we only put 15 hours on it but it worked out very well.

We use forks to move the pallets into the garage before winter and a pallet jack to move them inside the garage. It works very well.

I am working on a method of filling the totes without having to manually stack the splits. It will reduce capacity but it means NEVER touching a piece of wood until I carry it into the house. By manually stacking, we get about .45 cords in a tote. With splits randomly dropped into the tote we will be just under 1/3 cord.

I will be 70 in a few weeks and needed to find a way to keep heating with wood as I get less capable of doing the hard work needed. I no loner scrounge wood from what the loggers leave when they harvest trees. I was able to heat for a while with "free" wood but those days are gone or soon will be. Even with buying loggers cords, and renting a processor, I can heat for 1/2 the cost of propane and propane is cheap now ($1.19/gal). I remember it costing over $2.50/gal.