Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[two_bit_score]

A nice woman told me to become a vampire.
She offered but I didn't like the look of her teeth.

Are you sure she wasn't peeing on your leg?

 

[arrow]

Are you sure she wasn't peeing on your leg?

No she didn’t
But her dog did.
What was this thread about again?

 

[hunt4570]

Played tennis my whole life including D1 college and never had tennis elbow until now, when I am older......from firewood....LOL!

Well maybe its firewood elbow!

 

[groundcover]

Got the tracked Cat tractor to load me a trailer load , back to tractors and wood !

 

[wolc123]

No snow here in upstate wNY, but at least it’s staying cold enough to keep burning firewood in the house. I’ll maybe hit my average of 6 face cords this winter. I’ve gone thru 3-1/2 so far.

I’ve been hauling up about 1/2 face cord a week lately, from the woodshed to the house porch. My tractor bucket and that porch each hold half a cord.

It’s always dark, when I’m hauling the wood, because I work full time and it’s dark when I get home. I had been leaving my tractor run, so I could use the headlights and keep the battery charge topped off, when I’ve been loading the bucket.

This has been the first usage, where I might have benefited from a cleaner burning tier-4 model. I’m getting sick of breathing those dirty exhaust fumes, so I moved a lamp out into the woodshed today. I’ll use that and shut the tractor off while loading from here on out, and play the odds on the battery charge. If worse comes to worse and it don’t start on a cold day, I’ll jump it or put a tender on it.

I see there’s a little bit more cherry coming up when I get to the next row. I can’t wait to get to that. Im getting sick of cleaning the ashes from all the ash I’ve been burning the last couple weeks.

 

[keony]

For all you "face cord" folks, I translate that as 1/3 cord...am I far off?

 

[wolc123]

A face cord is 4 ft x 8 ft x 17” (+/- 1”), so you are just about right on the money.

For all you "face cord" folks, I translate that as 1/3 cord...am I far off?

 

[Williy]

I wasan't aware of some facts on cord wood

Cord Sizing - Firewood Terminology - Michigan Fuelwood Products

Asking yourself, "How big is a cord of wood?" A cord occupies a volume of 128 cubic feet typically measuring 4 feet by 4 feet by 8 feet.

michiganfuelwoodproducts.com

willy

 

[shooterdon]

No snow here in upstate wNY, but at least it’s staying cold enough to keep burning firewood in the house. I’ll maybe hit my average of 6 face cords this winter. I’ve gone thru 3-1/2 so far.

I’ve been hauling up about 1/2 face cord a week lately, from the woodshed to the house porch. My tractor bucket and that porch each hold half a cord.

It’s always dark, when I’m hauling the wood, because I work full time and it’s dark when I get home. I had been leaving my tractor run, so I could use the headlights and keep the battery charge topped off, when I’ve been loading the bucket.

This has been the first usage, where I might have benefited from a cleaner burning tier-4 model. I’m getting sick of breathing those dirty exhaust fumes, so I moved a lamp out into the woodshed today. I’ll use that and shut the tractor off while loading from here on out, and play the odds on the battery charge. If worse comes to worse and it don’t start on a cold day, I’ll jump it or put a tender on it.

I see there’s a little bit more cherry coming up when I get to the next row. I can’t wait to get to that. Im getting sick of cleaning the ashes from all the ash I’ve been burning the last couple weeks.

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i keep a tender on tge battery all the time.

 

[Duds13]

Well maybe its firewood elbow!

Sure seems to be!

 

[dodge man]

Wolc123, I like that lamp. A chair and a couple of magazines and you have a place to hang out.

 

[ning]

That looks like the perfect setup as far as protection short of a cab with your risers. I can't tell from the picture, is that still FEL capable?

EDIT. I clicked on the link and it looks like it is. Do you have a skid plate on it?

Not my tractor, not my other-forum post...

 

[Jstpssng]

There are a few members who are set up with limb risers and improved protection.
Wouldn't you know, the one I am sure about doesn't have the username I thought he did.
Another member, now retired from TBN had his Kubota set up like it was a skidder... complete with winch on the roll bar for when the load was too much for his 3 pth.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Today was a picture perfect day. Shipped some stud-wood to the log yard.

This load is 565 BF by my measure. Mostly 12's with a couple 14's.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

Today was a picture perfect day. Shipped some stud-wood to the log yard.


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This load is 565 BF by my measure. Mostly 12's with a couple 14's.


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gg

That's a good load on your truck, especially with them sticking out the back.
Probably close to 3 tons, fir is heavy this time of year.

 

[keony]

So I finally got done what was supposed to be my October project (life got in the way) all the wood is off the ground now. First time I tried dropping into totes, I usually stack it:

 

[dodge man]

What’s your plan for getting it out of the totes.

 

[keony]

What’s your plan for getting it out of the totes.

Oh, hard to see but each one has a door cut into the side, I put the doors together while filling so wood wouldn't fall out.

 

[goeduck]

I noticed these two blowdowns a few years back and finally got to them today before the super bowl. Nice to deal with some smaller trees for firewood.

 

[deezler]

Burned through about 3.5 face cords here in southern Michigan so far this winter. Really only had about 10 days of actual deep winter, during late January.

I normally toss my logs into a pile and cut away at them over time (see behind the tractor). But I had a bigger diameter maple log my neighbor gave me, so figured I would hold it up in the air to cut - definitely easier on the back.

I'm not a huge strong guy, so picking up 100 lb rounds off the ground is not something I ever plan on doing. First time trying this method of just plucking them off the ground with my forks, worked very well! Just a lot of getting on and off the tractor.

I'm not sure why my log splitter decided to puke some hydraulic oil.... didn't do it for very long so I just kept running it. Pretty badly neglected machine overall, I'm embarrassed to say. A few ounces of gas into the tank, one shot of ether into the intake, and it fires right up and runs fine to split logs.

And not exactly tractor related, but some of my firewood goes into boiling sap. Earliest maple sap season that anyone can recall around here.

I like to build a refridgerator for storing my sap. Not sure it's really necessary, but it feels like the right thing to do to keep it fresh until I boil. Anyone else?