Tractors and wood! Show your pics

deezler · Nov 6, 2024

ning said:
Is there anything like a carport you can hook on to the side of a shipping container? I know there are things that will span two, but I only have the one and could use a carport there. A kit would hopefully be cheaper than a DIY...

Free Standing Metal Lean-To - Midwest Steel Carports

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Doesn't necessarily have to hook onto the shipping container, right? There's free-standing options - "lean-to metal carport"

cmyoung2 · Nov 6, 2024

deezler said:
They generally do hold up "ok" for stacking. But after 5-6 years of use, they are getting a little bent out of shape - primarily because I cut all the fronts out of them for easy unloading. And also due to my occasionally careless operation with the forks, doh. I am often moving full crates around on uneven ground, sometimes missing my fork slots in the dark, etc. But of course never after a couple beers.... lol.

So whereas a top crate used to slip perfectly into the bottom one (they are designed to be stacked), now they kind of fall-in a bit on one side or the other. No danger for stability or issues with fork access yet. When my backhoe is mounted and the wood is dried out, I can even carry two stacked together around on flat ground if needed (sketchy tho).

Carport was well worth the 3 grand (delivered and assembled), but of course I wish I went bigger in all directions.

One caution, make sure you either have very flat ground or a bigger tractor to stack. My L3600 is not heavy enough, even with rear ballast and loaded wheels. It will tip, lucky there was a building to catch me. (No harm, No foul, cheap lesson learned.. When I'm splitting green wood I can't pick a crate up more than about a foot. But our ground is not level, anywhere.

deezler · Nov 7, 2024

cmyoung2 said:
One caution, make sure you either have very flat ground or a bigger tractor to stack. My L3600 is not heavy enough, even with rear ballast and loaded wheels. It will tip, lucky there was a building to catch me. (No harm, No foul, cheap lesson learned.. When I'm splitting green wood I can't pick a crate up more than about a foot. But our ground is not level, anywhere.

Having the proper stability and loader lifting capacity is the primary reason I upgraded tractors from my old Cub Cadet (now my neighbor buddy's machine) to my Kioti CK3510. It easily lifts a full IBC tote bin of green split wood up to 6 feet in the air. Will tip forward without any ballast on the rear, so obviously that is key. With my backhoe mounted, the lifting capacity is quite impressive. With just a rear blade or land-plane, its still acceptable. But yes, I only stack totes on nice FLAT ground.

gstrom99 · Nov 7, 2024

I had a dead pine fall over in my "grove". I used the JD to pull it and push it (whole) into the burn pile. No pic of the tractor, since it was already put away. Sorry.

Jstpssng · Nov 7, 2024

gstrom99 said:
I had a dead pine fall over in my "grove". I used the JD to pull it and push it (whole) into the burn pile. No pic of the tractor, since it was already put away. Sorry.
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I can't wait for pictures of the fire!

gstrom99 · Nov 7, 2024

Jstpssng said:
I can't wait for pictures of the fire!

Okay, but that pile has been bigger before. It'll be awhile before it gets lit again.

Gordon Gould · Nov 7, 2024

Two years ago we had a big wind storm that took down some nice pine.

I wanted to salvage it. But in order to get to it I had to go through a wet spot. We had a dry late summer and fall and the wet spot was pretty good when I started in early November. But by the time I was done it had started to be rainy and it looked like this by the time I was done.

The normal drainage is down hill from right to left but the deep ruts I made formed a dam and held water. My intension was to fix it up in the summer of 2023. But both '23 and '24 were so wet that the surface water never dried up and the ruts stayed full of water. Until this fall which has been warm and dry. So I figured it was my best chance to at least open up the drainage which I did yesterday with the dozer. The dozer tracks exert 5.5 psi of ground pressure but it was still way to wet to do blade work. I tried to use it to flatten things a little and put in some new drainage ruts in the right direction. I took this pic this morning. Not pretty but better. Hopefully it will dry next summer for a proper fix.

Got the worst of it off the tracks.

gg

Hoobie · Nov 8, 2024

Gordon Gould said:
Two years ago we had a big wind storm that took down some nice pine.

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I wanted to salvage it. But in order to get to it I had to go through a wet spot. We had a dry late summer and fall and the wet spot was pretty good when I started in early November. But by the time I was done it had started to be rainy and it looked like this by the time I was done.

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The normal drainage is down hill from right to left but the deep ruts I made formed a dam and held water. My intension was to fix it up in the summer of 2023. But both '23 and '24 were so wet that the surface water never dried up and the ruts stayed full of water. Until this fall which has been warm and dry. So I figured it was my best chance to at least open up the drainage which I did yesterday with the dozer. The dozer tracks exert 5.5 psi of ground pressure but it was still way to wet to do blade work. I tried to use it to flatten things a little and put in some new drainage ruts in the right direction. I took this pic this morning. Not pretty but better. Hopefully it will dry next summer for a proper fix.

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Got the worst of it off the tracks.

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gg

White pine I assume Gordon. I had the same thing happen last December on a rainy windy day. Freak unpredicted winds came up and caused damage. Snapped off old fir. But it uprooted some big pine which I can't remember ever seeing. Pine limbs snapping off in ice and wind is common. But uprooting pine is a new one. The ground was saturated and not frozen too.