Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[jetdriver]

My Wood Fence In Ontario, Canada.

 

[SpringHollow]

It amazes me that the wood dries for the people that shrink wrap it like that. Are the ends of the split wood exposed on yours? I have seen plenty where they are shrink wrapping it with the wrap run horizontally and it surprises me that the wood dries.

Ken

 

[TerryR]

My stuff for firewood

It is great to see your Farmall M, Kevin. We had a couple of M's and three or four H's on the farm where I grew up in northern California in the late 40's through early 60's. We used them for planting, cultivating, etc. row crops.

From the spring under the seat and the roller on the drawbar, this looks like a late model M. Are the fenders original? I've never seen them on an M before.

Terry

 

[motocephalic]

here is my set up. It has been working great until I recently broke my ankle as I slipped on some ice. I am laid up now, no longer able to cut any firewood, but this site makes for some good reading.

 

[Deekes]

Well it really ain't free but from the yeilds of your labour. A great satisfying thought though that the oil man doesn't even know your there.

 

[terryknight]

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i like the fence

here is my set up. It has been working great until I recently broke my ankle as I slipped on some ice. I am laid up now, no longer able to cut any firewood, but this site makes for some good reading.

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that sucks. i feel your pain though i just broke both bones in my wrist sat, i'm out for 2months

 

[SGBotsford]

One pic is my new wood shed. The neat stack is only done because I had to get the pile out of the way to put on the roof. The second pic is my usual way of handling wood.

Stacking is such a pain. Doubles or triples the amount of time you are dealing with wood. At a minimum in adds one more handling step. The floor of my woodshed is covered in pallets, so air can circulate through the stack. Consider that a wood stack is a lot more air leaky than a house, and a house will have an air change every hour or so. I don't think that more air than that will dry the wood any faster. The limiting factor is the movement of water inside the wood to the surface.

So I stack some at the edges so I can make the pile higher, but mostly I don't stack.

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Normally wood collecting is done in late fall. This year we had a burglary and life has been chaotic. And we've had twice the normal snow



I need to use the snowblower to move the tractor anywhere. With the ground still thawed, it's really easy to get stuck. Even the road side ditch once took me over an hour to get out of.

So I'm spending two hours a day felling, cutting and splitting by hand, and sledding it out with a calf sled. Keeps me fit.

 

[Deekes]

All wood is good. Some is just better than others. When someone offers me wood, I just say yes. Find out what kind after. Got a load of hemlock last year. Haven't use it yet but still looks pretty piled up.

 

[coalguy]

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Nice wood fence Jetdriver!

 

[dwillis4]

First we fell and cut it up in the woods, then use the bucket to move it to the trailer staged at the edge of the woods:



Then we haul out with that



and unload / stack at the house.



If we need to split something, we do it at the house. But even so, it's only split if it's too heavy to lift. Otherwise it goes into the furnace WHOLE.

 

[coalguy]

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Nice wood fence Jetdriver! Must be a pain to stack...

 

[coalguy]

It's an Italian Pasquali tractor. 4wd, articulated, 20hp 1 cylinder diesel. Popular in vineyard applications, I believe. Quite common in Europe, not so much here in the States.

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Nice little tractor. And you are doing a good job restoring it. Are the parts hard to find?

 

[bythebay72]

Use these wood holders with dollies to put dry wood in garage attached to the house. made from old slate pallet.

 

[PHPaul]

Nice little tractor. And you are doing a good job restoring it. Are the parts hard to find?

Well, I haven't had to come up with anything too involved yet, but I expect drive train parts and main castings and such would be roughly as common as hen's teeth. There is an online place that has quite a bit of support for them.

Lombardini diesels are still being produced and there is support out there for them. Whether that extends to the particular model in my tractor, I couldn't say.

And I fervently hope not to have to find out...

The engine seems to be in excellent shape. I've started it without starting aids in single digit weather on a number of occasions. In fact, it starts much better than my John Deere 750.

 

[PWH]

Great ideas in this thread....especially like the old Farmall setup!

Here's a few shots of my wood lot...I have a Wallenstein WP820, SurgeMaster Splitter, CountryMfging 2 ton wagon, Kubota L3010, BX25, and T-Rex trailer.

I highly recommend the Country Manufacturing 2 ton wagon....I added a cylinder to it and load it with split wood directly off the wood processor. It has no problem dumping a full load of wood.

 

[Kodthree]

We drag our truck-bed trailer (1 ton chassis) behind the tractor into our property or surrounding forest, staging it in an accessible area if we need to skid logs. After dropping the standing-dead tree or trees, we buck on site or skid (but as little as possible!), fill the bucket on the ground and load the parked trailer from the tractor until full. Sometimes we can park the trailer next to the downed tree and simply roll the rounds of mainly Doug Fir, Birch, Larch, and some Rocky Mountain Maple right up a HF motorcycle ramp into the bed. We then rehitch to the trailer and either fill the bucket with rounds, but usually rocks and boulders for my .5 and drive back to the shop area. We wheel the Craftsman 27T log splitter out and split right out of the trailer and into my truck for transport back to my home , or we simply stack into the 10' "bays" of the lean-to off the shop if it is to stay at the cabin. Wood that stays at the cabin is seasoned a minimum of three years, two years if it goes to my place.
We split the wood for the cabin over several splitting parties, but it never touches the ground...we split right into the bucket and transport over to the cabin deck. We roll the hand-built wood racks to the stairs at the end of the deck and load them from the tractor bucket, then roll them into place on the deck for the winter. Pictures of our racks being built can be found in my thread history.

Handling wood multiple times sucks, so we do as little of this as possible.

 

[tthopskin@yahoo.ca]

i like that save the back lol

 

[beenthere]

Fell the trees in the woods, and buck them to 90" length (divisible by 5 to give 18" blocks). Leave tops under 3-4" in the woods.
Use FEL forks to move the 90" logs to the splitting site.
Stack logs on slight slope above splitter and buck them as needed for the splitter. Use FEL bucket to lift large blocks to splitter height 3-4 at a time
When splitting, stack onto pallets of about 1/5 cord each. Stack the pallets two high for two years drying time. Drape a 4x4 piece of rubber roofing over each stack of split wood to shed snow and rain over the two year period.
Move the pallets as needed to the garage for easy access to the inside wood boiler. This winter using about 1 pallet every 4-5 days.
Easy one man operation.

 

[beenthere]

Added a protective screen to the front grill guard to keep sticks and such from puncturing the hyd. cooler and radiator.

 

[DB24]

My ideas:

1) I have tried mesh log bags, see photo, but found them to be too easily torn. They do last a bit longer if stacked on pallets and moved on the pallet rather than using the haul loops.

2) I got fed up bucking by hand and splitting last year so my neighbour (who is a wood merchant) brought his Posch S350 firewood processor over - what a difference in output rate! You can see an S350 working on this video Posch Spaltfix S-350 firewood processor - YouTube , sadly at $30-40,000 I will not be buying one any time soon...

Have fun,
Duncan