Back once again asking for more advise, this time log splitters.

[MossRoad]

There's two things I can think of that I don't want to run off of my tractor..

1. Log splitter
2. Generator

I often use the pallet forks on the tractor as a table to load large rounds onto the splitter, so I don't want it tied up for that.

And the few times I had to use the generator was when there was severe weather, and I needed the tractor for storm cleanup or snow removal.

 

[4570Man]

There's two things I can think of that I don't want to run off of my tractor..

1. Log splitter
2. Generator

I often use the pallet forks on the tractor as a table to load large rounds onto the splitter, so I don't want it tied up for that.

And the few times I had to use the generator was when there was severe weather, and I needed the tractor for storm cleanup or snow removal.

I load big logs with the forks and I keep the pile pushed close to the splitter. Sometimes I have another guy working and I’ll cut wood while the helper splits wood. I need the tractor to cut wood. The only way I’d have a 3pt splitter is on my B7200 with a pto pump.

 

[Brimfield]

There's two things I can think of that I don't want to run off of my tractor..

1. Log splitter
2. Generator

I often use the pallet forks on the tractor as a table to load large rounds onto the splitter, so I don't want it tied up for that.

And the few times I had to use the generator was when there was severe weather, and I needed the tractor for storm cleanup or snow removal.

X2

I use the bolt on forks to move wood or skid crates and I use the tractor for moving snow if it gets bad.

 

[dougtrr2]

I heat with wood and use 4-6 cords a year. I also run into pieces too big to pick up and put on the splitter. I don't like the vertical mode so for quite a while I would have the rounds in my loader and lift it up to chest high. Then I could pick them up and get to the splitter. I finally figured out a few years ago that I could set an 8' 4x4 on the lower web of the I-beam on my splitter and roll the rounds up. It works really well and is simple.

Doug in SW IA

 

[Deere Dude]

Here is my log lift. Roll on and roll off.

 

[oosik]

Back when I burned wood it didn't take too awful long to figure out that it was just a whole lot easier to work up smaller trees. Everything was just a lot easier all the way around.

I have Ponderosa pine - only. Many are in the 32" to 38" diameter category. Many of us know how difficult a 38"D x 16"L chunk is to handle.

Before I decided - nothing bigger than 20" - I would dig a trench with the FEL bucket and roll the splitter into the trench. With any luck this would bring the splitter beam level with the surrounding ground and no lifting required - only rolling.

 

[Rat Rod Mac]

Oosik, you are right. It is a lot of work. Day before the timber crew showed up I went around the edge of the fields brush hogging the corn stubbles down about 50 yards into the fields so when we fell the Ash trees that grew along the fields we could drive right up to them and not trip over the stubbles. Also brush hogged a large area for the timber guys to use as a staging area for loading the logs. I just used an old Massey- Ferguson Diesel 35 and a 5' Woods brush hog and it was 2 degrees out that morning. That was a long 3 hours. Boy that was cold. Especially with the field being a flat area, but on top of a hill. That wind was wicked. A lot of the trees are down in the woods and some (a lot) are in a ravine and the cut firewood will have to be carried up and out by hand. I think I will mention it to them and in the mean time I'll cut and clear all the brush and small limbs from the trees so they can pick out which tree they want to cut on and drive right up to them. We'll see how many weekends they show up. Maybe when they get enough for themselves they will help with the other guys (or maybe not). LOL. There are four guys involved here. Oh well, I'm going to get started on it and do what I can to get them cut up. Splitter could come in real handy though. See ya, RRM

 

[motownbrowne]

Back when I burned wood it didn't take too awful long to figure out that it was just a whole lot easier to work up smaller trees. Everything was just a lot easier all the way around.

I have Ponderosa pine - only. Many are in the 32" to 38" diameter category. Many of us know how difficult a 38"D x 16"L chunk is to handle.

Before I decided - nothing bigger than 20" - I would dig a trench with the FEL bucket and roll the splitter into the trench. With any luck this would bring the splitter beam level with the surrounding ground and no lifting required - only rolling.

I don't mind the big rounds so much. Not oak, anyway:

Splitting a big oak round - YouTube

 

[MossRoad]

I heat with wood and use 4-6 cords a year. I also run into pieces too big to pick up and put on the splitter. I don't like the vertical mode so for quite a while I would have the rounds in my loader and lift it up to chest high. Then I could pick them up and get to the splitter. I finally figured out a few years ago that I could set an 8' 4x4 on the lower web of the I-beam on my splitter and roll the rounds up. It works really well and is simple.

Doug in SW IA

I usually build a small ramp with pieces of split wood up to the horizontal beam and roll them up, too. However, once in a great while, I'll do someone a favor and remove a large tree fall from their yard, and some 36" + rounds are hard to roll up there, hence the forks. I can still do it by hand, but its my belief damage to my spine is cumulative. I don't have anything to prove anymore. And I have a really nice little forklift that can do it easier.

 

[4570Man]

I don't mind the big rounds so much. Not oak, anyway:

Splitting a big oak round - YouTube

That looked like a nice log. I’d have probably taken it to the mill. In either case there was a lot of wood in that tree.