Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Molalla1]

Brought over 3 cords of wood into the garage today. Should be set for the year.

Love my covered totes.

Had some wood in face cord bulk bags that should have been easier to move than the totes that hold almost half a cord. Note to self….put the bags in decent pallets…moron!

We all keep on learning shooter . . .

 

[mike0000]

Brought over 3 cords of wood into the garage today. Should be set for the year.

Love my covered totes.

Had some wood in face cord bulk bags that should have been easier to move than the totes that hold almost half a cord. Note to self….put the bags on decent pallets…moron!

This is my second year of using covered totes. I’m a fan of them, I need to pick up a few more and I should be set. I split with a PTO tractor driven splitter, with forks on the front end loader. I’ve really cut down a lot of the extra handling and stacking I used to do.

 

[ning]

Do you ever find that small animals (mice/rats etc) take advantage of the shelter provided by the cover of the tote?
So far, I've kept my totes uncovered, which of course gets the wood at least superficially wet; I stage a few totes in my barn so that the ones I bring to my house tote-garage (small shed where they can be forked into a covered spot) are dry. I haven't found any evidence or mess, but setting up covers has been a thought... I do have a big sheet of billboard vinyl that I could probably turn into a decent number of tote covers, or something else?

What does everyone use to cover their totes?

 

[shooterdon]

Do you ever find that small animals (mice/rats etc) take advantage of the shelter provided by the cover of the tote?
So far, I've kept my totes uncovered, which of course gets the wood at least superficially wet; I stage a few totes in my barn so that the ones I bring to my house tote-garage (small shed where they can be forked into a covered spot) are dry. I haven't found any evidence or mess, but setting up covers has been a thought... I do have a big sheet of billboard vinyl that I could probably turn into a decent number of tote covers, or something else?

What does everyone use to cover their totes?

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Cut the bottom off and zip tie top to tote. Holds just under half a cord.

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[BackRoad]

I use the cut off bin tops when storing the wood outside. Just throw a couple of splits on it to keep it intact.

I remove it when the bin is under the porch roof, but have it handy if lots of snow is in the forecast. Harbor Freight moving dollies are handy to maneuver the full bins on the porch.

 

[mike0000]

I use the cut off bin tops when storing the wood outside. Just throw a couple of splits on it to keep it intact.

I remove it when the bin is under the porch roof, but have it handy if lots of snow is in the forecast. Harbor Freight moving dollies are handy to maneuver the full bins on the porch.View attachment 2178951

I do the same as far as cutting the tops off and weighting them with a few pieces of wood, but wife won’t let me set a tote out front. I fill the back of the RTV and stack it in a log ring on the front porch.

 

[BackRoad]

After 48 years of marriage, we're adept at negotiations. I had that same discussion with my wife regarding a tote on the porch...she too was suggesting a log ring!

I gave her the choice, either a tote on the porch or, I would put it where she desired, and she could handle bringing in the wood and fire duties.

And it's only for 3 or 4 months after all!!!

I was flexible either way she chose.

 

[WinterDeere]

I use the cut off bin tops when storing the wood outside. Just throw a couple of splits on it to keep it intact.

I remove it when the bin is under the porch roof, but have it handy if lots of snow is in the forecast. Harbor Freight moving dollies are handy to maneuver the full bins on the porch.View attachment 2178951

I love this. It is the only system I have seen that I think is better than mine. If I were to start over, with the tractor I have today, I would probably use this system.

My system was better for me at the time, I had a Deere 855 that had a pinned bucket and was probably too light to safely transport these bins on FEL forks, and the fixed ROPS height wouldn't have allowed me to set the bins on my patio with the 3-point forks. So I bought the wagon, which works pretty well, but I think these bins would be even faster and more convenient than loading seasoned wood from sheds into wagon.

Perhaps the ONLY advantage of my system is that I do get to shake out the ubiquitous mouse nests and borer dust, before bringing the splits up to the house. We already get too many mice in our basement, I catch at least 1 per week thru all of November and December.

 

[mike0000]

After 48 years of marriage, we're adept at negotiations. I had that same discussion with my wife regarding a tote on the porch...she too was suggesting a log ring!

I gave her the choice, either a tote on the porch or, I would put it where she desired, and she could handle bringing in the wood and fire duties.

And it's only for 3 or 4 months after all!!!

I was flexible either way she chose.

I wanted a tote near the porch, wife said no, fire ring only, here’s how we “compromised”. 30 years of compromising here

 

[5030]

I have a steady diet of mostly hardwood blow downs and limbs from my wooded non tillable land that I haul out and cut into handable lengths that for some reason I cannot ever get rid of and wind up roasting them in the burn pile. Try as I may putting free ads on FB marketplace and wood related forums, no one ever calls or comes so I burn the stuff every year. At my age, I don't want to heat with wood at all and while we do have a pair of biomass stoves, we mostly heat with propane, much easier and we can afford it.

I spent all summer roasting saw logs last year including 3 overgrown and partially dead apple trees and I still have a gob to incinerate. It's amazing how long large unsplit rounds of hardwood smoulder. When they start to die down, I go out with my cordless blower and agitate them...lol Have a pile of ashes about 2 feet high by 8 x 8 from last years roasting. Soon as the weather breaks, I'll be roasting again. Being a closet pyro at heart I do find it enjoyable however. Have a couple large maples that are enroaching on my equipment barn that I'll be taking down this summer and of course, grinding out the stumps as well. I dislike stumps and my Erskine stump grinder makes pretty short work of them. Used to dig them out and then have to fill in the holes and burn the stumps but it's much easier to grind them below grade, backfill the indentation with the ground off wood chips and call it good. The chips turn into mulch in a year or so and then grass grows on them.