Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

We had a good steady rain this afternoon, so I finally got to use my splitter shed. It worked pretty good. I was able to split a bucket load and stack it in the woodshed, in about 40 minutes, all while staying very dry.

I patched up the canopy top on my loader tractor, with a combination of Flex-seal and Gorilla tape, before I put it back on last week. That kept the seat dry while it was parked outside to load and unload. The wide overhang on the woodshed kept me dry as I unloaded and stacked.

It looks like I’ll be needing to add a little air to those front tires on the John Deere. I loaded the bucket pretty heavy, so that I could fit it all on one load, because I was a little pressed for time.

It’s kind of cool, how what was formerly my least favorite part of making firewood (stacking it), is now my favorite part. There’s nothing worse than stacking firewood outside, except maybe unstacking it, in the winter when it’s covered with snow. That new woodshed made all the difference.
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It’s kind of cool, how what was formerly my least favorite part of making firewood (stacking it), is now my favorite part.

I know the feeling, I used to love working in the barn on a rainy day

gg

 

[sd455dan]

Edit;
Clean up job about 10 miles from home, power company decided some trees had to go, should make good fire wood, so loaded up the trailer with the 55HP Rhino 554 grapple on the FEL and box blade on 3 point, the saws and got started.

Got the first load home and was able to drag the entire pile off the trailer with the FEL on the Ford.

I should have bought a backhoe years earlier... Sure is handy as a second tractor.

I couldn't believe it but one log jammed and the Ford drug the truck And trailer back about a foot before the load slid again. Drug them as a group to next to where I wanted them.

Then repositioned and transferred them into a pile using the fixed thumb on the backhoe. Plans still in the works to hydraulically actuate the thumb.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Clean up job. power company decided some trees had to go, should make good fire wood so loaded up the trailer with the Rhino the saws and got started.

Got the first load home and was able to drag the entire pile off the trailer with the FEL on the Ford. I should have bought a backhoe years earlier...

Then repositioned and transferred them into a pile using the fixed thumb on the backhoe. Plans still in the works to hydraulically actuate the thumb.

Keep the old iron working I like seeing that.

gg

 

[sd455dan]

Keep the old iron working I like seeing that.

gg

Thanks,
That old Ford has been ridden hard and put away wet way too many times before I got it, BUT, it just doesn't have enough common sense to die.

Darn happy with it for the $8k- welds ,leaks, worn bushings, and all.

Something to be said for just running every time it is needed and doing it without a fuss, no matter how old and ugly it may be.

 

[Jstpssng]

Thanks,
That old Ford has been ridden hard and put away wet way too many times before I got it, BUT, it just doesn't have enough common sense to die.

Darn happy with it for the $8k- welds ,leaks, worn bushings, and all.

Something to be said for just running every time it is needed and doing it without a fuss, no matter how old and ugly it may be.

I'm going to show my age here. When somebody mentions "Old Ford tractor" I think 8N, Jubilee... MAYBE the 640 series.
That machine of yours is barely broken in!