Mikejeakins
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Nice setup.
Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Jim Timber
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C'mon, do you know how fun it is to stretch chain? :laughing:
I still need to take a pic of what my FX85 did to some regular strength 5/16" chain when I was using it as a choker to rip saplings out. No clue what it's yield strength is rated at since the chain came with my truck (previous owner had a couple loops on the receiver hitch because the stock 11.5Klb hitch loops are too thick for little trailer's clips), but it's certainly not high test.
A long time ago I had posted a pic of pallet of wood I had on my FEL and I said it was approximately a 1/2 a cord (it may have been 4/10 a cord). The naysayers on here said it was not half a cord and that a CUT would not lift a half a cord.
My wood splitter came on a really big pallet. So I could safely stack a 1/2 cord on it unlike the other one I had stacked really tall.
So here it is, 6' long, 3' high, and 3 rows of 16'' long/ 48.''
My wood splitter came on a really big pallet. So I could safely stack a 1/2 cord on it unlike the other one I had stacked really tall.
So here it is, 6' long, 3' high, and 3 rows of 16'' long/ 48.''
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Half a cord is 4x4x4 = 64 cubic feet.
Your skid of wood is 6x3x4 = 72 cubic feet.
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I think I see Bigfoot in there. 
Creamer
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OK. That doesn't cut it - much to general of review. What were your first thoughts when you used them?
DieselBound
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Hmmmm...... well much quicker to load than my regular pallet with a frame, maybe half the cost of the plastic pallet with frame and canvas cover added. Expected life of the bag they say is 3 years they appear real sturdy and well built, hoping they last longer than that. I cut up a tarp to place a top cover inside the bags so water cannot mitigate down through the top. So far I loaded 2 bags got total of 6 to try will need to reorder some more, they cost $13 and change plus shipping. I like them because I think it will save me some time.
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I see SS guys post that vid quite often...
IF you want to see a REAL comparison between a SS and a TW5, you should have been at the firewood shootout a week ago in Ohio...I was there at the show and watched what happened.
The TW and SS were side by side, with the same kind and amount of wood, and this is how it looked when the TW was all done splitting,
Two guys on each machine (handing wood to the operator) and you can see what the SS had left, when the TW got finished. In the pict. the TW guys were cleaning off their machine.
Both had a few tough pieces and the TW shoved EVERYTHING right on through, the SS went into bam bam mode and that takes extra time too.
It was a timed event with each machine having someone timing and looking for cheaters, so it was fair... You will be able to read the results in the Dec. issue of Sawmill & Woodlot magazine...
NOW, that's what I call a fair comparison that "I" along with about a hundred plus others, could see for ourselves...
SR
Good post SR! I went with a TW5 after much thought about a SS and video watching.
The YouTube video comparing the two side by side isn't a fair comparison without the table grate. I had watched it a few times before.
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