Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Bavarian]

It was an easy pull with the hay trailer.

 

[Rustyiron]

I knew a guy in his late 70's that heated his house solely with wood, something like 6 - 7 cords per year. He did 100% of his splitting vertical, while sitting on a milk crate, and swore by it.

Would that be Dennis, aka "backwoods savage" on a different forum?

 

[arrow]

After many years of splitting wood by hand I decided it was time to get a splitter... I had my heart set on a 3pt hydraulic splitter so I could run off into the woods to split wherever I was felling and bucking without excess moving of wood but I hadn't seen the right deal on a used one. Then I saw this 3 year old "non-running" Champion splitter with maybe two hours use on it (paint on the beam not even scratched) for sale. Some fresh oil, gas, and cleared the clogged main jet. Runs great! I'm sure I'll still drag it around with the tractor some. And best of all the spitting mauls are getting retired!

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Nice find. Love the way you picked it up so it stayed level and damage free.
The very last thing I would do is split anything while in the woods.
I know ppl do it especially if they do not have a tractor large enough to bring stems back to a landing in the ways a tractor can.
It is way safer to get the stem out of the woods and bring it to a clearing free from any ground obstructions that one can trip on.
If you’re not splitting into a container, at least split where you’re stacking.

 

[FullMetalBucket]

Bought a DR Power Pro 475 chipper on sale last year and finally put it to use. I was surprised at how well it worked. Self feeding, just chewed through the brush I put through it.

 

[WinterDeere]

Would that be Dennis, aka "backwoods savage" on a different forum?

The one and only!

Hope he's doing well, I haven't kept in touch.

 

[deezler]

Well, stick a fork in it... I think this year's burning season is done, here. We have several more mornings forecast in the 40's, but with highs in the 70's and a stone house that doesn't follow temperatures too quickly, I'm predicting it will be too warm in the evenings to bother lighting either stove the rest of this season.

Dang, you held on for a while to be honest. I gave up 2 weeks ago here in Michigan. If it doesn't stay below ~40° from the evening through morning, a fire is harder to keep drafting in my house and easily overheats the house to near 80°.

 

[Rustyiron]

I've been in those beautiful old stone houses like @WinterDeere has. Never lived in one but my opinion is that the mass works better cooling in the summer than holding or absorbing it (heat) in the cooler times.
We turned off the wood boiler and turned on the mini splits a good month ago.

 

[arrow]

Dang, you held on for a while to be honest. I gave up 2 weeks ago here in Michigan. If it doesn't stay below ~40° from the evening through morning, a fire is harder to keep drafting in my house and easily overheats the house to near 80°.

That’s a pretty well insulated house.
I burn usually into May. The old place took 5-6 cords. The new 1680 sq ft place taking about 3 cds from Oct - May.
Nonetheless, I fired up two days ago when the house got to 64* over night. By 5 pm, it was only 74* or 6* difference from your place.
This was with four splits in the Quadrafire placed in the living room.

 

[arrow]

Bought a DR Power Pro 475 chipper on sale last year and finally put it to use. I was surprised at how well it worked. Self feeding, just chewed through the brush I put through it.

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Just saw an ad for this just this morning.

Was wondering how they did. Seems they're decent by your accounts.
As much as I can’t stand pto hook ups and they're ornery ways, still strongly considering a pto type chipper.

 

[WinterDeere]

Dang, you held on for a while to be honest. I gave up 2 weeks ago here in Michigan. If it doesn't stay below ~40° from the evening through morning, a fire is harder to keep drafting in my house and easily overheats the house to near 80°.

We live in an old uninsulated stone farm house, with walls that taper from 24" thick at ground level to 20" thick 4 stories up... a big old "cave" of a house. What it means is that I can wait much longer than most to light up in the fall, the stone work tends to follow the average weekly temperature on those first cold nights in October, but also holds down at those average weekly temperatures on the first warm days of spring.

In one case, I burned every evening right thru the first week of June, but we usually throw in the towel some time around end of April or early May.