Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[wolc123]

I got another “rainy day” project lined up. My wife wanted a new light fixture for our spare bedroom/office. I put that up but the old ceiling fan light still worked good.

I’m hoping it will do ok on a 15 amp circuit, out in my splitter shed. I’m going to mount it directly above where I keep the splitter, when I’m working in there. I do most of my splitting in the summer. If the wind is blowing at all, I usually get a nice cross breeze in there, when I open the west side man door, and the east side double swinging doors. The ceiling fan will be nice on the hot and still days. The extra lighting will be nice if I ever want to split at night.

The fixture has 3 speeds on the fan. I tested it before removal and everything works on it. I don’t know if we ever even used the fan, in the 20 or so years it was up. That side of our house had good central air conditioning.

I also have plenty of 1/2” conduit, wire and a ceiling box, just might need to pick up a couple conduit fittings from HD. I’m going to wire it to the central LED light (on a 15 amp breaker) that’s already out in that shed, switched from just inside the pole barn back man door.

The light and fan are controlled from the fixture by chain switches. I’ll put (3) 60 watt equivalent LED bulbs in the light and leave it on most of the time, just use the fan when I need it.

 

[dodge man]

I mounted an old decorative ceiling fan from our house to my shop, it works pretty good. I just removed the fancy light fixture from it.

 

[wolc123]

I mounted an old decorative ceiling fan from our house to my shop, it works pretty good. I just removed the fancy light fixture from it.

I changed my plan a little for my splitter shed ceiling fan. I couldn’t see an easy way to hang it just inside the swinging doors on the east side, so I think I’ll just swap it out with the single bulb fixture that’s currently in the center. That will be about a half hour job, with no new parts needed, compared to an “all day sucker” to shop for parts and hang it closer to the door.

The fan will also work better in the center. I’ll just move the splitter in a little further, on the warm calm days, when I use the fan.

It looks like there is plenty of clearance, above my tractor canopy, to hang the fan from the existing center ceiling box. That will also greatly simplify the wiring.

 

[BackRoad]

All you need to add now is an easy chair!

"...How come it took you 4 months to split a face cord?..."

 

[WinterDeere]

Doesn't look like a ton of space between slope of rafter and top of tractor canopy. Hope your drop tube is just the right length, on that fan, if your goal is zero new parts!

 

[wolc123]

It’s going to be a tight squeeze. Might have to remove a few bucket fulls of gravel from the floor in the splitter shed. That might get me a free driveway extension around back. I’ve been wanting to extend it around to the side porch so that I can park my truck camper out there for the summer anyhow. Might be a win win deal.

 

[WinterDeere]

lol... most would adjust height of fan, not height of floor!

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

You may need to miss the beam. Or:

 

[Rockbadchild]

well the wood shack will be too small this year as well lol …

I rotated my fire wood around this year it was two year old now so it was time my poplar is nice and dry…. I cord it cross sectionally instead of longitudinally this time i think it will be better . i got my damp wood at the ends also the bottom of second row with two half row of burch on top, the two center row will be dry wood and the rest all stack around … I’ll get there at some point!!

 

[wolc123]

Quite a few easily accessible ash came down in my parents woods recently. I need about 3 more cords to top off my 8 cord capacity woodshed. It shouldn’t be a problem getting that done in the next 3 or so months.

Dropping the dead ones with a chainsaw is very dangerous because they are so unpredictable. I mostly just wait for the wind to bring them down. I’m thinking I’ll be dealing with them for about another year or two, then hopefully I can get back to burning more cherry, oak, hickory, and maple.

One nice thing about burning the dead ash, is that it don’t take much if any aging time. Once I start cutting live trees of those other species again, I’ll need to stay (3) seasons ahead. That’s why I made my woodshed hold (8) cords, we burn (2) per winter. I won’t be able to “slack off” when I run out of the EAB killed ash. I’ll have to keep up and fill that woodshed as I empty it.