Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[two_bit_score]

The dollie isn’t a lot short of the center of the load and they probably blocked the truck for the picture.

Are they even connected? Looks like they just backed the truck in for a picture.

 

[4570Man]

Are they even connected? Looks like they just backed the truck in for a picture.

I don’t see any trailer jacks so they’ve done some degree of planning but I’m thinking the picture is as far as they got. If they actually did move it was probably just a 100 yard shot for a commercial.

 

[Molalla1]

I ended up with about 5 cords of ash mostly big stuff. A lot of the rounds were over 3+ foot diameter.

Nice looking pup by the way . . .

 

[Jstpssng]

Strike's over and OldPath must have been called back to work tonight.

 

[Oldpath05]

I later decided I did not like the pin hitch. It did not allow enough flex when driving through ditches and waterbars, so I had a local fab shop use the factory hitch as a pattern, and make me a receiver hitch that mounted the same way. I ended up pinning it on, rather than bolting. It tends to rattle more now when going over bumps, but I can put it on and off in seconds, without any tools. I had this receiver tube made short, to reduce the cantilevered loads hanging off the back of the winch (not an issue when pulling my log splitter, but the tongue weight on my firewood trailer can get heavy at times). The short tube requires shortening my receiver inserts and redrilling the hole for the hitch pin, but those same inserts also fit the shortened receiver I had made for my Coot (an antique UTV I sometimes use for firewood or splitter hauling). Show here with an insert to use with a pin hitch, since one of my firewood trailers is set up that way.

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I've seen pictures on here where people found a spot in their butt plate where they could safely cut a hole and weld in a receiver tube. This is nice because you don't have to have a lot of "hardware" hanging off the back of the winch, just a bit of receiver tube poking out. (I remove my receiver when doing a lot of winching or skidding, so I don't end up beating it up with the logs.) welding in a receiver tube was not an option for me, due to the center rib. I would have had to make the hole way off-center due to the rib and the location of the "works" on the other side of the butt plate.

If cutting a hole and welding in a tube is not possible on your winch, you could always weld some tabs or a piece of channel on and do something like mine.

If you get tired of hide&seek with trailer hitch pins, I bought one of these>>> MASTER LOCK 1465DATSC Towing Pivot Lock Hitch Pin,5/8 In | eBay
Where do you store your hitch when not in use?

I have the swing type hitch and storage is almost as important as fresh home made donuts.

 

[Oldpath05]

Strike's over and OldPath must have been called back to work tonight.

I'm with the am crew........

 

[Oldpath05]

I decided not to wait for the 200hr air filter change and went with the 140hr change, its was ove a year anyways. The outer one has been sucking up way to much dust lately so maybe its time any ways, the inner one should go 200 or 300hr, I think.................

 

[hunt4570]

I ended up with about 5 cords of ash mostly big stuff. A lot of the rounds were over 3+ foot diameter.

That tractor is awful shiny for 2000 hours!

 

[John_Mc]

Thanks for the good wishes.
Working my woods without a winch has meant just been nibbling around the edges and not being able to access much of the timber.
The winch will open up a lot more woodland once I cut some carefully situated skid roads into the depths of the woodlot that I can use to reach otherwise inaccessible trees
That will be a job in itself as much of my land is sidehill and ravine. Should be an interesting and fun fall just prepping the woodlot.

If you don't already have a self-releasing snatch block, start shopping. They aren't cheap, but they greatly increase the utility of a logging winch. Being able to winch the log around a corner without having to go back to release a manual snatch block partway through your pull is a real time-saver. Here's a video from Labonville of the self-releasing snatch block in action (The link is set to bring you in at the 2 minute mark, right before the snatch block use.)

Here's a link to the snatch block Labonville sells. There are other brands which work just as well, this was just the quickest for me to find.

 

[hunt4570]

I decided not to wait for the 200hr air filter change and went with the 140hr change, its was ove a year anyways. The outer one has been sucking up way to much dust lately so maybe its time any ways, the inner one should go 200 or 300hr, I think.................

Yeah, it seems like those inner ones never get dirty.. I need to have a look at my outer..