Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[shooterdon]

Seems wood would be better for a power outage??

Wood for heat...but propane for generator. I can take a long outage if need be. 10 gal/day by cycling. Always have 400 gal as a minimum. Can go over a month is things get bad.

 

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We do all adapt to the equipment available and our own personal preferences. I'll use my loader bucket or the hydraulic lift as a staging table, but for me, throwing the wood causes more problems than pulling it back to resplit. After a couple of bouts with something like tennis elbow from grabbing and throwing logs, I had to shift the way I worked. Tha one hand backhanded toss was killing me. So I went looking for a splitter that would push the logs of the end, and at the right height to feed into directly in to my trailer. Once I found a good one, I sold my old horizontal/vertical splitter. I don't really have to move to pull larger logs back to resplit. The work table on the splitter catches them. For easily manageable sizes, I move maybe a half step to reach them and pull them back. For larger ones, it might be a full step. For me, that far beats picking the split pieces up and throwing them in the trailer.

For people doing the wood game professionally, any equipment bought to alleviate repetitive movement is money well spent. "Pull backs" take a lot of time, more than people realize. Those splitters that do this on their own are expensive and not cost conducive for the average home owner. Those videos where I see guys wrestling with large chunks and having to go back and forth to keep "re-splitting" are hard to look at. Once a chunk is mounted and visits the 4 way, I don't want to touch it again. Any planning for the wood to be dealt with after the wedge where one is not touching it again, to me is the most efficient.
In my mind, one of the most effective methods is a conveyor belt dumping splits into a tote and splits never to be touched again until visiting the heating device.

For me, my attempts is to make the wood as small as possible to conveniently lift to the table.
My "pull backs" have been minimized to almost zero but it means splitting those 20" rounds first manually. I have it down pretty well and can quarter one of these in about a minute. These splits are then run through the 4 way right to where I stack.

It depends on where you want to put your work. I like to kid myself or my body into not thinking certain things.
It's a very late start for me first with back problems and now me getting over covid that needed monoclonol anitbodies. That stuff works in spades.

 

[deezler]

Just scored 8 more IBC totes for free; saw them on craigslist last night, in the same business park as my job.

Went to pick up the first pair in my pickup, and noticed a certain pungent aroma. "yeah, these held manure". The business is called "digested organics". Had a co worker help me lift and load on our lunch break just now, in our business casual attire. Some of the valves weren't shut all the way... leaking out old poo and random chunks of who knows what. Co-worker wasn't too pleased to get some on his slacks LOL.



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[Gordon Gould]

We do all adapt to the equipment available and our own personal preferences. for me, throwing the wood causes more problems than pulling it back to resplit. For easily manageable sizes, I move maybe a half step to reach them and pull them back. For larger ones, it might be a full step. For me, that far beats picking the split pieces up and throwing them in the trailer.

Why would I have to pick the pieces up to toss them into the trailer?? I have a table on the opposite side of the beam from where I stand. When I split off a piece it is already in my hand and it is a short lob into the trailer. The other piece just lays back onto the table and is in position to be resplit. Besides adding the table I also turned the beam around 180* on the trailer frame so I would be working closer to the trailer for a shorter throw in the right direction for a righty. Luckily I can still throw w/o trouble.

gg

 

[Boss 302]

Nice setup you got there Mr. Gould

 

[Smokeydog]

Labrador keeps my throwing arm in shape.

 

[goeduck]

Went to pick up the first pair in my pickup, and noticed a certain pungent aroma. "yeah, these held manure". The business is called "digested organics". Had a co worker help me lift and load on our lunch break just now, in our business casual attire. Some of the valves weren't shut all the way... leaking out old poo and random chunks of who knows what. Co-worker wasn't too pleased to get some on his slacks LOL.

If that was people poo, I would freak out too. If it was cattle poo, just part of the day.

I wish I could get free totes.

 

[hunt4570]

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If that was people poo, I would freak out too. If it was cattle poo, just part of the day.

I wish I could get free totes.

yeah, they want 65 bucks a piece here

 

[deezler]

Well thats why I didn't hesitate. Still pretty foul, haha.

Loading them up on my trailer in a couple hours here to get them home. I will have 20 total now, should be set for life.

 

[Loaderman22]

I just bought 6 more for $250 ($41.67 each) & the guys in the yard put them on my trailer for me, i just had to strap them down. Was supposed to be eight, but a couple were frozen down, not worth the effort. I could go back with just the truck for those if needed.

 

[Oaktree]

Just scored 8 more IBC totes for free; saw them on craigslist last night, in the same business park as my job.

Curiously, what do you use them for? Once in a while I've seen people hauling water in something similar, but I'm not sure I'd want to do that in something that had been previously used for "digested organics".

 

[deezler]

Curiously, what do you use them for? Once in a while I've seen people hauling water in something similar, but I'm not sure I'd want to do that in something that had been previously used for "digested organics".

Lol, agreed. Firewood storage, man. In the metal crates, not the plastic liner. I pulled the plastic liners out as soon as i got them home today.

 

[Smokeydog]

Question about hydraulic wood splitters. On the horizontal/vertical splitter the wedge moves. If stuck in a log the wedge can retract and steel bars strip the chunk of wood off the wedge and try again. On horizontal only splitters that split the wood off the end, if the wood is stuck on the wedge, how do you clear it?

Splitting large rounds vertically is where this feature really shines.

 

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I have a 20 ton wood splitter with a Honda GC 160 motor, that we can’t keep going. It starts, then sputters and dies. My friend is working on it, and he is an expert in small engines, but can’t figure out what the problem is. Does anyone have one of these motors and has a special problem getting it to stay running?

 

[shooterdon]

Question about hydraulic wood splitters. On the horizontal/vertical splitter the wedge moves. If stuck in a log the wedge can retract and steel bars strip the chunk of wood off the wedge and try again. On horizontal only splitters that split the wood off the end, if the wood is stuck on the wedge, how do you clear it?

Splitting large rounds vertically is where this feature really shines.

I would put another round behind it and cycle the machine again. If that fails a sledge hammer.

 

[4570Man]

Question about hydraulic wood splitters. On the horizontal/vertical splitter the wedge moves. If stuck in a log the wedge can retract and steel bars strip the chunk of wood off the wedge and try again. On horizontal only splitters that split the wood off the end, if the wood is stuck on the wedge, how do you clear it?

Splitting large rounds vertically is where this feature really shines.

It doesn’t happen all that often. When it does usually I grab the chainsaw and cut as much as I can before it hits the wedge. Then there’s the sledgehammer but I haven’t had to do that in years. Being able the read the piece to minimize splitting effort makes a lot of difference. Also when I’m cutting to start with I’ll put a saw cut half way through challenging pieces.

 

[Boss 302]

A short chain works really well pulling the stuck ones off

 

[Bocephous]

I have a 20 ton wood splitter with a Honda GC 160 motor, that we can’t keep going. It starts, then sputters and dies. My friend is working on it, and he is an expert in small engines, but can’t figure out what the problem is. Does anyone have one of these motors and has a special problem getting it to stay running?

How old is the gas?

Is it non-ethanol?

I'd drain it completely, fill with non-ethanol, put a properly gapped new spark plug in and try running it again.

 

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How old is the gas?

Is it non-ethanol?

I'd drain it completely, fill with non-ethanol, put a properly gapped new spark plug in and try running it again.

Did all that. Removed and serviced the carb, replaced it’s gasket, still nothing. It starts, ten dies right away.

 

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Did all that. Removed and serviced the carb, replaced it’s gasket, still nothing. It starts, ten dies right away.

I had one of these on a power washer. It was doing the same thing. I called the maker of the power washer and was told the Honda GC engines have a certain life span and that I should feel fortunate I got 11 years out of it. Perhaps it was 11 years chronologically but I doubt there was 150 hrs on the thing when it let go. It probably would have kept going w a complete rebuild of the engine but ti was not something I cared to get into.
It is not Honda's best product and it was called a "consumer" engine by the pw manufacturer.
I replaced that engine with a Subaru Robin and got even less service out of it. They no longer make stationary engines which is a good thing if they turned one of the best stationary engines made by man (Wisconsin) into one of the worst.

Your particular engine may be hydro-locked. Drain the oil and see if copious amounts come out where gasoline got into the crank case.
Re-fill it and hope the new carb rebuild doesn't drain through as the old one did. Be sure to always shutoff the fuel afterward.
You may get a bit more life out of it if a valve hasn't let go.