Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

Welcome to TBN IansG ! Interesting tongs unit you have there.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

out in the woods bring in firewood small tractor log skidderView attachment 2928096

Welcome To TBN.

I agree, that's an interesting setup you have. Did you build it?

 

[ning]

Welcome To TBN.

I agree, that's an interesting setup you have. Did you build it?

Looks like he's Small Wood Lot Tools
New advertiser?

 

[IansG]

Looks like he's Small Wood Lot Tools
New advertiser?

not an advertiser, just customer

 

[34Willys]

I've had the same skidding tongs as IansG for six years now. For levelish ground, they work really well and you rarely have to leave the tractor seat to hook up or drop off. With the chain and shackle, you're pulling from the draw bar, so chance of flipping over backwards is greatly reduced. Much easier to connect to the 3 point than the TajFun winch I have.
I see they have a website again and have moved from the rainy side to the sunny side of the Cascades.
Patrick

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. Gordon, with your trailer loaded with splits, does it get worrisome on a side hill? It looks like a high CoG combined with the narrow axels.

This week I had (6) of the larger 330gal IBC totes filled with fresh split "green" maple and cherry that I moved with my forks. Maybe 1/3 of a cord each and it was heavy, slooow going and I kept it low out of tipping concerns.

Visually, in your "train" photo, your trailer looks like it's easily carrying more than twice that with the sides boards you added and it's stacked pretty high!

 

[wolc123]

Back when all I had were two wheel drive tractors without front loaders, I used a pair of log tongues on a three point lift boom, for skidding logs. I rarely had to get off the seat to hook them up or take them off. I could only drag one log at a time that way though.

Since I’ve had a 4wd tractor with front loader, I move the logs mostly with a couple ofheavy 4” angle iron “forks” bolted under my heavy duty bucket. I still have the tongues, but haven’t used them in about 20 years, since I’ve had the loader tractor.

 

[goeduck]

It is a standard Huskee splitter - goes vertical for big rounds. When I used it with my trailer I wanted to work closer to the trailer so that it was a short lob to throw the splits in. I modified it so that I could easily turn the beam either way on the trailer frame.
gg

Creative. Good job on the modifications!

 

[Gordon Gould]

Mr. Gordon, with your trailer loaded with splits, does it get worrisome on a side hill? It looks like a high CoG combined with the narrow axels.

This week I had (6) of the larger 330gal IBC totes filled with fresh split "green" maple and cherry that I moved with my forks. Maybe 1/3 of a cord each and it was heavy, slooow going and I kept it low out of tipping concerns.

Visually, in your "train" photo, your trailer looks like it's easily carrying more than twice that with the sides boards you added and it's stacked pretty high!

Thanks goeduck !

You are right - the trailer is narrow. The tractor too, actually. And I freight the trailer up pretty good. Not a rig to run on side hill terrain which we have plenty of. I keep my tractor on the tractor roads when in the woods. This is more of a side hill than it looks with a level tractor road running across it. A couple pics from when I started this system before I turned the splitter around.

There were a lot of old skid trails here when we first came. But I could run the tractor on very few of then. I enjoy converting them to tractor roads.

gg

 

[ning]

Looks like the trailer just has a walking beam suspension, so it shouldn't really sag sideways from gravity is my guess. The tractor of course has a tripod setup with the unsprung swivel axle in front so it may be less stable on a side-slope than the trailer?

 

[Gordon Gould]

Looks like the trailer just has a walking beam suspension, so it shouldn't really sag sideways from gravity is my guess. The tractor of course has a tripod setup with the unsprung swivel axle in front so it may be less stable on a side-slope than the trailer?

Not sure what you are trying to say. The problem we are talking about is keeping a narrow vehicle, tractor or trailer, with a high center of gravity from tipping over sideways when run on side slope.

gg

 

[ning]

Not sure what you are trying to say. The problem we are talking about is keeping a narrow vehicle, tractor or trailer, with a high center of gravity from tipping over sideways when run on side slope.

gg

With a spring suspension, or the pivot on the front axle of a tractor, there's more of a tendency to lean, which exacerbates the tippiness of a narrow vehicle. My thought is that the wagon being relatively solid may be less tippy than the tractor, but that's just conjecture and makes assumptions about the width of the track and CoG...

 

[Gordon Gould]

With a spring suspension, or the pivot on the front axle of a tractor, there's more of a tendency to lean, which exacerbates the tippiness of a narrow vehicle. My thought is that the wagon being relatively solid may be less tippy than the tractor, but that's just conjecture and makes assumptions about the width of the track and CoG...

OK, I see now. However, with the side slopes I have there is no doubt that either would tip over w/o a cross leveled trail to run on. The CoG of the loaded trailer is quite high compare to the tractor and the wheel base narrower.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

^^^^
I should have said track width not wheel base

 

[KeithT]

who makes that storage box you have your chainsaw in?

Ranch Road….

 

[Gordon Gould]

We have lost some snow in the last couple days. Enough so I can get around w/o dragging bottom. So today I broke about a 1/4 mile of trail. The next 3 mornings are going to be around 20* and I'm hoping to pull out some more firewood.

gg

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. Gordon, that looks like you got a fair amount of snow.

Would you say the snowfall was like it "used to be", or did you get less this year than historic average for your area?

Ours is way low, and if I recall correctly, Mr. Jstpssng mentioned a low snow fall in his area.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Mr. Gordon, that looks like you got a fair amount of snow.

Would you say the snowfall was like it "used to be", or did you get less this year than historic average for your area?

Ours is way low, and if I recall correctly, Mr. Jstpssng mentioned a low snow fall in his area.

We are running 5% higher than the historical average so far this year in the St Johnsbury area.

gg

 

[WinterDeere]

Ours is way low, and if I recall correctly, Mr. Jstpssng mentioned a low snow fall in his area.

That terrible drought that killed lawns and everything else last fall, seems to still be in effect. This is one of the driest starts to spring I can recall, so far.

I have been looking at an increasing amount of exposed dirt where there used to be lawn, with a plan to overseed this spring. But if the present weather continues, I think that'd just be wasted money.

Anyone remember the extended drought of 1998-1999, that ended with the big bang called Hurricane Floyd? Almost feels like we could be in a similar situation, this year.

 

[TN8Man]

Some spring cleaning