Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[4570Man]

I cut a pretty good pile of firewood today. This is mostly tree guy logs that were delivered to my place. I sure got more cut with my 372xp than my helper did with his Stihl. Ok I like bashing Stihl, but in all fairness my saw is double the CCs his was.

 

[Jstpssng]

I am sure SR and MossRoad can work with long forks like they say but like I said - Not For Me because I have trouble. For grabbing round bales and stacks of lumber they are great but the forks always seem to be in my way and way to cumbersome for use as a grapple. And if I want to grab a log on the end like SR shows I have to grab it 4 times before I get it dead center so it doesn't ride up the forks or s..t out the bottom. I am just not cut out for them.

gg

As Moss said; besides, if I can do it with my el cheapo Titans, you can. I do have enough steel to move the forks wider which will help with balancing trees; I'm not so sure about my welding ability though. Yet I still will probably go with a single lid EA grapple for several reasons.
- I have a lot of small stumps, rocks, et al that I am going to be moving. Even people who have grapples are saying that smaller things fall through.
-Price. I haven't found a grapple for my forks which are much less than the EA unit.
-Convenience. This summer we will be cleaning up my Father's estate. I can have my grapple here and leave my forks on his L2800, which is 200 miles away.
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SR is rather proud of his fork grapple as he should be, it's a nice setup. Yet his Agco loader could probably pick my little 'Bota up and toss it over the woodpile.

 

[lpigott]

let us know how the stump grinder works. i've been wanting one, but instead i save up a lot of stumps and then go rent a stump grinder, pick it up at 5 fri and as long as i have it back mon at 9 and use less than 8 hrs they only charge me one day

Will do, I have lots of work for it. For most this one would work best with HST tractor since the travel speed each pass over the stump needs to be slow. My tractor is over the power rating of the grinder but I plan on running it in E-PTO and I have creeper gears which I think is going to work well with this unit.

 

[square1]

Watch this:
Starting at 05:38

I'm worn out from watching!
There are some large (>1") cables partially buried in the creek bank out in the woods. They're part of the remains of a late 1800s / early 1900s mine. It had never, until watching that, dawned on me that someone had to cut those to length without power tools

 

[PhysAssist]

I'm worn out from watching!
There are some large (>1") cables partially buried in the creek bank out in the woods. They're part of the remains of a late 1800s / early 1900s mine. It had never, until watching that, dawned on me that someone had to cut those to length without power tools

Yep- even with a decent hack saw, that would be a nightmare...

 

[Paystar]

Doing some firewood at home with both my Toyota powered home made splitter and my son with the 25 ton Forest King, the B2620 and my 2004.5 Polaris Sportsman 500 H.O. (when Polaris used to be good, not like my 2 new lemons that I only use when I have to.)

 

[Paystar]

And some deadfall cleanup last spring.

 

[Paystar]

And to get the wood, you gotta make the roads.

 

[4570Man]

I got most of the logs I had on hand cut up. I got all the little stuff which I hate dealing with cut and the last sawmill throw away log which was about 24" diameter cut.

 

[goeduck]

I got most of the logs I had on hand cut up. I got all the little stuff which I hate dealing with cut and the last sawmill throw away log which was about 24" diameter cut.

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You sure have a lot of nice covered space to work your wood. jeolous. :sigh:

On the small stuff I cut it all the way down to the size of my forearm. I call it arm wood and use it to start a fire with a piece of fire starter. I do not use kindling or paper.

 

[4570Man]

The small stuff isn't so bad in whole tree form. Once it gets cut up loaded on a dump truck and dumped out its a real pain to deal with. I just burn a lot of it. I usually don't take it unless I get paid. They delivered this so its easy enough. And the covered work area nice.

 

[dragoneggs]

I got most of the logs I had on hand cut up. I got all the little stuff which I hate dealing with cut and the last sawmill throw away log which was about 24" diameter cut.

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Absolutely love that first pic!

 

[Jstpssng]

The small stuff isn't so bad in whole tree form. Once it gets cut up loaded on a dump truck and dumped out its a real pain to deal with. I just burn a lot of it. I usually don't take it unless I get paid. They delivered this so its easy enough. And the covered work area nice.

Every fall when I was growing up we used to hook the trailer up to the 8N and help the older couple down the road get the firewood in which they had cut in the spring. They would go out into their old grown in field, cut and put up second growth red maple. While he cut with the old Homelite XL12 she would cut the limbs up with an axe, all of the way down to the size of your little finger.
He was from Sweden, where you are required to take everything if you cut a tree.

 

[Thomas]

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Sooo little snow.

 

[Gordon Gould]

This is the size I hate. Way to much time to work it up w/o being set up for small wood. But it burns. This is road side clean up after the power line crew can through and trimmed out the line.





gg

 

[Paystar]

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Sooo little snow.

Some are old pics. It's snowing again right now. Wish it would go away, LOL. But then again when it does I'll have to deal with mosquitoes.

 

[BrokenTrack]

This is the size I hate. Way to much time to work it up w/o being set up for small wood. But it burns. This is road side clean up after the power line crew can through and trimmed out the line.

I agree with you 100%...

They are so small that it seems almost a waste to put a choker around them, yet for me (who clears land), leaving them means they make a mess when they are bulldozed into a pile. I fabricated a homemade feller-buncher to deal with this size trees, just to get it off the land, yet chunked up into firewood so it has some use. I'll use it to clean up the margins of my fields too, but have yet to build the firewood chunker for it. I have to build a rotary stick rake first, then will get to fabricating the firewood chunker. When I get these (2) machines done, firewood will be 100% mechanized for me. I have been waiting for 43 years for that!

 

[BrokenTrack]

This is a firewood chunker...

 

[BrokenTrack]

As Moss said; besides, if I can do it with my el cheapo Titans, you can. I do have enough steel to move the forks wider which will help with balancing trees; I'm not so sure about my welding ability though. Yet I still will probably go with a single lid EA grapple for several reasons.
- I have a lot of small stumps, rocks, et al that I am going to be moving. Even people who have grapples are saying that smaller things fall through.
-Price. I haven't found a grapple for my forks which are much less than the EA unit.
-Convenience. This summer we will be cleaning up my Father's estate. I can have my grapple here and leave my forks on his L2800, which is 200 miles away.
>
SR is rather proud of his fork grapple as he should be, it's a nice setup. Yet his Agco loader could probably pick my little 'Bota up and toss it over the woodpile.

I am not sure how far away you are from the house, but you can always swing by and check out my forks. They are homemade, but use very little steel and have worked flawlessly for 20 years. If you need help welding them up, I could help you. I am a retired welder, though Bath iron Works welders don't have the greatest reputation. Still every ship I build is still floating.

 

[Oldpath05]

I am not sure how far away you are from the house, but you can always swing by and check out my forks. They are homemade, but use very little steel and have worked flawlessly for 20 years. If you need help welding them up, I could help you. I am a retired welder, though Bath iron Works welders don't have the greatest reputation. Still every ship I build is still floating.

I'm still welding there, 31 years and counting, I can assure anyone there are some great welders at BIW, second to none especially the tig pipe welders, I tried that and didn't pass the die test so I stayed in the machine welding of bars and shell plates. Some of these guys I work with weld .045 solid wire vertical up and it comes out like perfectly stacked dimes and lot of it, every day, all day long, me I go to Dual Shield flux core for up welding. Every inch of weld is spatter free and a lot of welding is done with mirrors<<<that will separate the men from boys really quick.