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.

 

[WinterDeere]

...my opinion is that the mass works better cooling in the summer than holding or absorbing it (heat) in the cooler times.

Yes. My prior house, a stucco over brick Victorian with walls that were 22" thick brick, had no air-conditioning. I remember distictly how cool the house would stay on the first day or two of a heat wave, as long as you kept it sealed up with doors and windows closed. But by the third day it would start warming up, and then when the heat wave passed, you continued to bake in that house for a day or two after the heat wave had passed.

Keeping the place sealed up when the temperature spiked, and then opening the doors and windows after the heat had passed, worked pretty well.

Our current place, much larger and all stone, has always had air-conditioning. I feel like our cooling costs are pretty low, considering we're cooling about 8000 square feet with very poor roof insulation (valted ceilings, exposed 2x6 or 3x6 rafters), but really have no basis for comparison.

 

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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.

Yeah, but it’s a beautiful home and you probably won’t have to leave it to live by the beach.

 

[arrow]

Just have to finish a couple of walls

 

[Windblown]

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.

Yeah... but I've been hunting in northern Maine and you all think 40 degrees is shorts and T-shirt weather!

 

[Loaderman22]

@WinterDeere your posts are cracking me up. Been a Philly burbs boy all my life...

I have to travel I-81 all the way to the southwest corner of Virginny to get to the property on which I tractor... that too can be an adventure with all the 18 wheelers, hills and valleys in the Shenandoah...

I expect all can relate to crazy roads in their areas. Have you ever been on I5 in San Diego?

I-5 anywhere on the West coast feels like a 50 lane highway that's either going 100 or 0 at any given moment!!

 

[LouNY]

I feel that way anytime I get on the Northway and especially the Thruway.

 

[FullMetalBucket]

Yeah... but I've been hunting in northern Maine and you all think 40 degrees is shorts and T-shirt weather!

I’m not in Maine but I will admit to shoveling snow in flip flops

 

[LouNY]

Nothing like stepping out in the morning with just slippers and a robe to clear a bit of snow off the windshield before starting a vehicle to warm up while I enjoy a cup of coffee before getting dressed.

 

[deezler]

This week I upgraded from the Red Runner Deluxe wood processor to their Super Deluxe model

Increase in log size from 16” to 18”
Hydraulic log clamp
Hydraulic adjustment of splitting wedge
Better saw dust discharge
20 HP Honda vs 13 HP B&S
Improved infeed and outfeed conveyors.
Improved ergonomics.
15% increase in output.

If tariffs are imposed, I will avoid a 25% price

Don! How about some pics of the new machine and how you set it up to run.

 

[Loaderman22]

I feel that way anytime I get on the Northway and especially the Thruway.

Northway up past Albany isn't bad, less traffic up that way. But you're right, the Thruway is a different story. Or worse, go out I-17 doing 60mph and then BAM, traffic light!!