Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

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.

It is kinda hard to get a tractor with FEL and back-hoe really stuck, although you did miss a good photo opp.

 

[Oldpath05]

I never heard of loggers cord before it's probably cheaper then a farmers cord. If I had totes I'd put a door on one side to eliminate bend over work, I dont like bend over work it's like to muck work...........

 

[hunt4570]

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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

Looks nice but seems those totes would be a pain to unload.

What is a loggers cord? not heard that before.

Any pictures of that processer you rented?

Couple years ago propane was $4 a gallon here... then I added my wood burner..

 

[Molalla1]

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:

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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.

View attachment 666411

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.

View attachment 666413

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.

That's your fiance' Don . . . :thumbsup:

 

[Gordon Gould]

Just an update on our firewood progress this year.

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Seems like you got your system pretty much zeroed in to the way you want. All those totes lined up look pretty neat !! :thumbsup: By logger cord I assume you mean log length wood delivered on a self unloader log truck. What kind of processor do you get for $450 that will do almost a cord an hour ? I wish you had a picture of it - probably to busy I'm sure.

gg

 

[Molalla1]

Seems like you got your system pretty much zeroed in to the way you want. All those totes lined up look pretty neat !! :thumbsup: By logger cord I assume you mean log length wood delivered on a self unloader log truck. What kind of processor do you get for $450 that will do almost a cord an hour ? I wish you had a picture of it - probably to busy I'm sure.

gg

I would like to see myself Gordon . . . after my latest back surgery I'm into the easiest way for myself . . .

 

[4570Man]

It is kinda hard to get a tractor with FEL and back-hoe really stuck, although you did miss a good photo opp.

I drove out without any clawing from the backhoe but it was obvious I couldn’t continue farther. But I’ve buried the m59 and the 310 pretty bad before and never had to get assistance to get out. I buried an excavator past the bottom of the weight and I had to have assistance to get out from that. It doesn’t take a lot to get a tracked skid stuck once you get to that point but they can work conditions a lot worse than other equipment can.

 

[VroomVroom]

That TD dozer would fit your needs.

I would like my fathers old "m" and maybe an " A " or a cub. They had three of those and when all the greed started they sold the two smaller ones. I never had any dealings with those tractors. Or even saw them much. More from the old farmer down the road. And then I only saw him pulling woods wagons with it. Now I think they wish they had those still in the family. I think I know the guy who has the " A ". I see it there but not sure if it was the one my grandfather owned. He is an older man himself now, I have a mind to ask him if I can buy it if he ever decides to sell it. Think it is just nostalgia. I like hearing the engines in those farmalls. We ran a sawmill off a farmall engine on blocks of wood too. So I still hear the sound in my head.

 

[hunt4570]

WOW, that would've jumped me, it must of shook the house. Seems so the lightning would only effect the well pump if the pump was running at the time, summertime is a good time to loose a pump if there was such a thing as a good time, hopefully yours is ok. I dread the day if my pump goes in the winter, I put the Goulds pump in back in late 80s, I dont know how long they'r suppose to last but if it was replaced now I bet it wouldn't be of the same quality.

The pump doesn't need to be running, just hooked up so the surge can run through the wires to it. Spent part of the day yesterday checking on all things that were plugged in... treadmill, big saws out in the garage etc, I have a list for the guys coming out tomorrow to test stuff.

 

[nhbubba]

Bet that tractor is maxed out on lift, looks like ash, nice picture :thumbsup:

I知 betting poplar.

Nope. Worthless junk eastern pine. That trunk was on the ground for almost a year before I finally just bought a tractor to move it. I put a bunch of wood on the ground clearing some land last year thinking I was still 20-something and would move it all with a wheelbarrow. Turns out I'm not and between work and kids I only got about half of it cleaned up before I decided I needed some hydraulics in my life. ... Cleaned up most of the rest of the mess in about 6 hours.

For the sports fans keeping track that is half the work done in call it 10 months picking away a few hours at a time with my weekends. Then the other half the work done in two 3 hour sessions behind the stick of the loader over the course of two weekends. Force. Multiplier!

Yeah, the tractor was maxed out. I was planning to cut this trunk in half or skid it but was just delighted when the machine *just* lifted it to carry height. Perfect!