Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

That saw has ridden so many miles on that hood, it probably knows how to hang on for dear life as the tractor is moving. lol

SR

Reminds me of a saying we have about old barns, the only thing keeping them standing is habit....

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My wife helps with splitting wood too, she always says, "it keeps my butt warm too".

SR

 

[LD48750]

Wives just don't understand how much help that really is.
They think it is just a "token" effort.

 

[Yogi05]

A lot of fooling around with other projects lately but finally got my landscape timbers ready to bring home.
Not the prettiest load of wood, but an amateur has to start somewhere.
Now the real work begins.
Have a local machine shop making kind of a miniature pallet lift for me. Which reminds me, I have to go pick that up.
(Something like this but a foot wide, 10 inches high.)
Edit: this is it after I ran out and picked it up - not "something like this".

Then clear some of my yard for my trailer load.

 

[Yogi05]

OMG..... I didn't post for a week and when I finally do I KILLED the thread !!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, it was time to go cut/split those firewood logs I skidded out the other day, so I got everything loaded up, and picked up a helper,

Once on the job, I did my normal thing of having my helper do the cutting while I moved the logs to my trailer with my loader tractor,

This ash must have been 40' long,

Once the pile grew a bit, I could have my helper cut them down to size, and then I set the rest on top of the pile for him to finish cutting them, while I went for another log,

Anyway, with all the logs cut, I moved the splitter into place and we started rolling the big rounds right onto the splitters beam, NO lifting at all this way,

and pushed everything through the splitters 4-way wedge,

until we had all the logs turned into great firewood!

SR

 

[arrow]

Just about perfect Rob.
With three crushed vertebra discs, I'm looking for some kind of "table" myself. My days of picking up 150 lb rounds are over.
When we had 'firewood days" at my logging job, we had a conveyor belt at the base of the splitter to upload them into a stake body.
Bet you'd appreciate such as you load your bins..
You could also benefit with a pickaroon and/or a pulp hook to manhandle the rounds on the trailer.
I have to invent something like you have even if on a smaller scale.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Just about perfect Rob.
With three crushed vertebra discs, I'm looking for some kind of "table" myself. My days of picking up 150 lb rounds are over.
When we had 'firewood days" at my logging job, we had a conveyor belt at the base of the splitter to upload them into a stake body.
Bet you'd appreciate such as you load your bins..
You could also benefit with a pickaroon and/or a pulp hook to manhandle the rounds on the trailer.
I have to invent something like you have even if on a smaller scale.

I have a hookaroon, and they are handy...

As for the bins, this was a paying job and all I REALLY had to do, was let the splits drop to the ground in a pile. But they are so easy to take off the grate and toss into those bins, it would have been a sin to stick the owner with the job of picking them all up off the ground.

He has a pile of those bins and is taking more out there to fill.... AND once again, he offered to give me a bunch. I'm thinking this time, I will accept, as I've thought of an easier way to unload them so they just might now be useful to me.

SR

 

[4570Man]

Just about perfect Rob.
With three crushed vertebra discs, I'm looking for some kind of "table" myself. My days of picking up 150 lb rounds are over.
When we had 'firewood days" at my logging job, we had a conveyor belt at the base of the splitter to upload them into a stake body.
Bet you'd appreciate such as you load your bins..
You could also benefit with a pickaroon and/or a pulp hook to manhandle the rounds on the trailer.
I have to invent something like you have even if on a smaller scale.

I’d really like a conveyer at the end of my splitter. I have an old hay conveyor but it needs work and I’ve never got around to fixing it. I’ve also got 3 tread mills that I was planning on putting in a row to make a conveyor but I’ve never done that either. A lift on the splitter takes the back work out of it and it makes a nice table to hold the pieces that need re split.

 

[4570Man]

Loved these pics.
Wondering how large an excavator needs to be in order to lift an 1800 lb stem in the manner your pic demonstrates.

I’d say this log is around a ton. Here’s as far as I could hold it over the side without tipping.