Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Sawyer Rob]

Do you have a source for the hydraulic filters?

I do not, mine are clean and so I haven't even looked for one. If I needed one, I'd just call TW dealers until I found one...

SR

 

[MIkeWard]

My wife asks how I get matching bruises and scabs on my shins in indentical spots, I say it's from the splitter, as the log falls it hits my shin right above the top of my boot, every time...

Every year I split 10 or 15 cords and by the time I'm done my shins are all full of cuts and scabs healing!
When I'm wearing shorts the kids and grandkids ask what happened to you.

I sit down when I split and most of the rounds dropped off by the tree guys are 18 to 36 inches. So they are not real liftable and of course siting down and splitting vertically is the right way to split! Well the splits always seem to topple over and hit me in the same spots of both shins.

So last year after I cut up my shins and finished splitting I thought of catchers shinguards, soccer shin guards etc. Had to have Velcro/elastic straps etc
Too expensive searched eBay and found cheap $3.00 ones and what the heck ordered a couple of pairs.
Laughed when I finally got em cause the looked like they would fit a 6 year old.

Well I started splitting and after a couple of hits to the shins decided to see if they would when fit.
Well they are small and thin but they work well and cover the area between knee and ankle pretty well.
I can also slide my jeans over them

 

[hunt4570]

Every year I split 10 or 15 cords and by the time I'm done my shins are all full of cuts and scabs healing!
When I'm wearing shorts the kids and grandkids ask what happened to you.

I sit down when I split and most of the rounds dropped off by the tree guys are 18 to 36 inches. So they are not real liftable and of course siting down and splitting vertically is the right way to split! Well the splits always seem to topple over and hit me in the same spots of both shins.

So last year after I cut up my shins and finished splitting I thought of catchers shinguards, soccer shin guards etc. Had to have Velcro/elastic straps etc
Too expensive searched eBay and found cheap $3.00 ones and what the heck ordered a couple of pairs.
Laughed when I finally got em cause the looked like they would fit a 6 year old.

Well I started splitting and after a couple of hits to the shins decided to see if they would when fit.
Well they are small and thin but they work well and cover the area between knee and ankle pretty well.
I can also slide my jeans over them

I agree splitting vertical is the way to go, but we are in the minority here!! I, a lot of times, will wear my tall snake boots while splitting just to save my shins some!

When I first glanced at your picture thumbnail i thought you were showing bloody shins!!!:shocked:

 

[Gordon Gould]

Every year I split 10 or 15 cords and by the time I'm done my shins are all full of cuts and scabs healing!
When I'm wearing shorts the kids and grandkids ask what happened to you.

I sit down when I split and most of the rounds dropped off by the tree guys are 18 to 36 inches. So they are not real liftable and of course siting down and splitting vertically is the right way to split! Well the splits always seem to topple over and hit me in the same spots of both shins.

So last year after I cut up my shins and finished splitting I thought of catchers shinguards, soccer shin guards etc. Had to have Velcro/elastic straps etc
Too expensive searched eBay and found cheap $3.00 ones and what the heck ordered a couple of pairs.
Laughed when I finally got em cause the looked like they would fit a 6 year old.

Well I started splitting and after a couple of hits to the shins decided to see if they would when fit.
Well they are small and thin but they work well and cover the area between knee and ankle pretty well.
I can also slide my jeans over them

Not a bad idea at all MikeW !!! Most of my bunged up shins come from cut off blocks rolling off the pile when I cut them. Back in the day we used to say - curly toes and holey knees, you must be a roofer so maybe scabby shins, you must cut wood ?????????????

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

I agree splitting vertical is the way to go, but we are in the minority here!! I, a lot of times, will wear my tall snake boots while splitting just to save my shins some!

When I first glanced at your picture thumbnail i thought you were showing bloody shins!!!:shocked:

Snake boots, ummmmmmmmm. You may be on to something there, kill two snakes with one stone, I always need footwear and now appears I need shin protection to, I'll have to check this out.

Now if you mean vertical is better then horizontal your right IF you mean vatical as in upright, the vertical ground models are a pain in the back/side, these vertical upright splitters I wouldn't mine having. This video gives a good demo on two points, one point is obvious the second point is obvious to me, shows how USELESS log lifts are, with a crane one/me could just throw the tongs on the block and winch them right up on the table with no picaroon and or roly-poly, heavy blocks dont roll good over other wood or with me...................... Upright wood splitter - YouTube

 

[hunt4570]

Snake boots, ummmmmmmmm. You may be on to something there, kill two snakes with one stone, I always need footwear and now appears I need shin protection to, I'll have to check this out.

Now if you mean vertical is better then horizontal your right IF you mean vatical as in upright, the vertical ground models are a pain in the back/side, these vertical upright splitters I wouldn't mine having. This video gives a good demo on two points, one point is obvious the second point is obvious to me, shows how USELESS log lifts are, with a crane one/me could just throw the tongs on the block and winch them right up on the table with no picaroon and or roly-poly, heavy blocks dont roll good over other wood or with me...................... Upright wood splitter - YouTube

Looks like you still have to pick up the logs to put them on the splitter with that one... defeats the purpose! I just dump them close and roll them on the pad and split.. done deal

 

[Oldpath05]

Looks like you still have to pick up the logs to put them on the splitter with that one... defeats the purpose! I just dump them close and roll them on the pad and split.. done deal

So thats what wrong with ya, no one wants to work on the ground are you crazy, I take that as a yes. I been there done that, put mine horizontal 15 years ago and that where it stays now, I prefer stand up work, some even say I'm a stand up guy..........

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Looks like you still have to pick up the logs to put them on the splitter with that one... defeats the purpose! I just dump them close and roll them on the pad and split.. done deal

I just dump them on a trailer and roll them on the splitters beam!

WAAAY easier on the back and cuts out a lot of up and down!

SR

 

[Oldpath05]

I just dump them on a trailer and roll them on the splitters beam!

WAAAY easier on the back and cuts out a lot of up and down!

SR

I totally agree with that procedure, you need to say something else so I can disagree, we dont want the poles to collapse...........

 

[shooterdon]

I just dump them on a trailer and roll them on the splitters beam!

WAAAY easier on the back and cuts out a lot of up and down!

SR

I have seen pictures of your method and cannot come up with a better way of splitting rounds. But it requires the rounds either be cut over the trailer or lifted into the trailer. Might not wotk for everyone.