Weekend wood

[F.L. Jennings]

Cut a nice White Ash down by the Middle Fork weekend before last. Got part of it split and hauled then and finished up this past weekend. Also got a nice Hickory cut up on the high ground and started splitting that yesterday.

I've added a 12-14" high removable fence made of 1/2" pipe, on the back of the bucket and removable heavy forks about 18" long on the bucket cutting edge. These forks are spaced at about 14" apart and are used to help carry logs, firewood & etc. The fence fits into a couple of pipe sleeves welded to the bucket, and is kept in place with a 5/16" through bolt at each side.

The bucket bottom edge also has a grader blade welded on to stiffen and increase life of the cutting edge.

The add ons give extra capacity that is really beneficial when making trips to transport firewood over a half mile round trip. I have the backhoe mounted splitter mounted and after the wood is all split up I just turn around and load up every chunk of wood I can carry. I estimate that I doubled the volume of wood I can load with these additions.

The pipe brace on the bucket is a handy place to
carry an ax or other long handled tool. A bungee cord straps it in place.

I always fear that river since it has a nasty habit of claiming anything left there, but managed to get all of my labor hauled out with no loss to high water. I have just shy of 1000 hours on my L4200 and it has enabled me to do things I could never have done otherwise. It's amazing how many tasks you can think of to be done with a tractor. The older I get the more things I think of for it to do.

Heading out of the bottoms now, around the tail of the old river channel and back up through Cedar "holler" to home on ridge 100 feet above the River.

 

[schmism]

wouldnt a small utility trailer serve you better? a 4x5 or so... you could rig up a ball attachment on your BH bucket.

dont get me wrong i haul wood in my bucket also but its usually just short trips were hooking up my larger utilty trailer wouldnt justify it.

but in your case with the long distance and mulitipul trips required via bucket, id seriously consider a small utility trailer... espeically if you could find one on the cheep from your local craigslist

 

[F.L. Jennings]

wouldnt a small utility trailer serve you better? a 4x5 or so... you could rig up a ball attachment on your BH bucket.

dont get me wrong i haul wood in my bucket also but its usually just short trips were hooking up my larger utilty trailer wouldnt justify it.

but in your case with the long distance and mulitipul trips required via bucket, id seriously consider a small utility trailer... espeically if you could find one on the cheep from your local craigslist

Actually I have one and intend to hitch it to the BH so that I can use both the FEL and the trailer. and cut no. of trips. Just haven't hitched it up yet - too many irons in the fire.

 

[Youare]

Nice load of fire wood !! Looks like a trailer could cut the number of trips.

I argee the pipe brace is a great place to store a rake, shovel, or what. The bunge cord is a good idea. I had a rake in there once and it slipped out a little and I didn't see it get cought on some thing as I raised the bucket, I beheaded the rake.

Randy

 

[F.L. Jennings]

Nice load of fire wood !! Looks like a trailer could cut the number of trips.

I argee the pipe brace is a great place to store a rake, shovel, or what. The bunge cord is a good idea. I had a rake in there once and it slipped out a little and I didn't see it get cought on some thing as I raised the bucket, I beheaded the rake.

Randy

I've sheared off a pile of long handled tools like that - esp if the bungee cord pops off and I don't notice. I will hook up my trailer by and by but sometimes out in the woods they are not easy to manuever, especially abacking up around trees, stumps etc.