Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

^^^^ Did you ever think about putting removable stakes on your Carry-All

gg ?

 

[wolc123]

^^^^ Did you ever think about putting removable stakes on your Carry-All

gg ?

I’ve had sides on them before, but they get in the way far more often than they help with anything. A 2x4 ran along each side seems to work the best for me. That keeps the big rounds from rolling off and lets the carryall hold plenty for the tractors to lift.

I bolted a little chain loop on the back bottoms center of this one, which works very good for a chain attach point for dragging logs out. Note all the poison ivy on this ash log. Knock on wood, I haven’t gotten infected by it yet. I wore gloves while handling and washed up good after, with cool water and soap.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I’ve had sides on them before, but they get in the way far more often than they help with anything. A 2x4 ran along each side seems to work the best for me. That keeps the big rounds from rolling off and lets the carryall hold plenty for the tractors to lift.

I bolted a little chain loop on the back bottoms center of this one, which works very good for a chain attach point for dragging logs out. Note all the poison ivy on this ash log. Knock on wood, I haven’t gotten infected by it yet. I wore gloves while handling and washed up good after, with cool water and soap.
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I agree skakes or sides get in the way sometimes. I meant removable stakes like this -

gg

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Sunny 60's here today, so it was a good time to split this load of big oak along with some others I had around,

So I used my little tractor to bring them to the splitter,

Even though most of them were "quartered", they were still quite big,

I ended up with about 3/4 of a cord of splits in the boxes.

SR

 

[MadJack]

The firebox on our woodstove in the house will take up to 19” pieces, straight across. I usually aim for 16-18” when I am bucking. I never measure or mark and occasionally, I’ll cut one a little too long.

When I split those, I make them into smaller pieces that can be placed diagonally in the firebox, and/or use them for campfire wood.

We have a lot of those in the summer. Our new outside firepit (great great grandad’s old concrete silo base) will take 10 footers straight across:



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I just tape off and spray paint a 1/2" line on the splitter beam. Anything over goes to the firepit pile right off.

 

[BackRoad]

Mr. SawyerRob, what RPMs do you operate your tractor at with the splitter? Does the PTO turn a hydraulic pump with your setup?

Today on Marketplace, I happened to see a homebuilt 3pt splitter running off the tractor hydraulics, but not sure that is a very efficient set up?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Mr. SawyerRob, what RPMs do you operate your tractor at with the splitter? Does the PTO turn a hydraulic pump with your setup?

Today on Marketplace, I happened to see a homebuilt 3pt splitter running off the tractor hydraulics, but not sure that is a very efficient set up?

I have a 3 point splitter that runs off the tractors remotes, but the one in the pictures above has it's own pump. The difference between the two is speed!

Having it's own pump really speeds the ram up and it's plenty fast even at the aprox 1400 RPM I generally run at.

SR

 

[WinterDeere]

Running off tractor hydraulics is going to be very slow, given the available output from the CUT's common to most people here. PTO has much higher power output.

If you're aiming for perhaps 15 - 20 GPM, you really only need 8 - 12 hp to drive the thing, but your tractor PTO horsepower is probably at least double or triple that at "PTO speed" RPM. I suppose that you could buy a much larger PTO pump (e.g. 30 - 40 GPM), and just run the tractor at a lower RPM to achieve the desired 15 - 20 GPM throughput, to save fuel, noise, and wear on the tractor.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Running off tractor hydraulics is going to be very slow, given the available output from the CUT's common to most people here. PTO has much higher power output.

If you're aiming for perhaps 15 - 20 GPM, you really only need 8 - 12 hp to drive the thing, but your tractor PTO horsepower is probably at least double or triple that at "PTO speed" RPM. I suppose that you could buy a much larger PTO pump (e.g. 30 - 40 GPM), and just run the tractor at a lower RPM to achieve the desired 15 - 20 GPM throughput, to save fuel, noise, and wear on the tractor.

That's aabsolutely not always true, it all depends on what pump is on the splitter.

SR

 

[Loaderman22]

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