Tractors and wood! Show your pics

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My hookaroon just has a plain tip, not the odd-shaped tip that a good pulp hook has. For that reason, it's not the greatest for picking up logs. It does work great for sliding wood out of a trailer.

Personally, I prefer tongs for lifting roundwood (they don't work so well on spit wood). A buddy I sometimes cut firewood with swears by his pulp hook. Neither of us has much use for the hookaroon for anything other than trailer unloading, but perhaps we just haven;t found the right technique.
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,182  
Tom Seller wanted me to periodically update on my Split Second splitter. It has exceeded my expectations. It has split everything I asked it to. I thought I thought I may need to keep my old hydraulic splitter around but I was wrong. I sold it a few weeks after getting the split second. I can go over 5 hours on a gallon of gas, yes a gallon. The log lifter is a must have. Even if the wood is not too big to pick up, it makes a great staging table. The only regret I have is not getting one sooner.


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   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,183  
My hookaroon just has a plain tip, not the odd-shaped tip that a good pulp hook has. For that reason, it's not the greatest for picking up logs. It does work great for sliding wood out of a trailer.

Personally, I prefer tongs for lifting roundwood (they don't work so well on spit wood). A buddy I sometimes cut firewood with swears by his pulp hook. Neither of us has much use for the hookaroon for anything other than trailer unloading, but perhaps we just haven;t found the right technique.

There are several different styles of hookaroons. Peavy manufacturing makes I don't know how many.
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,184  
If they were swapped to reverse for clearance, that wouldn't have reversed the tread. Looks to me like they were just switched side for side. I'd reverse them just to avoid the comments here. :laughing:
True dat
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,185  
Here's my little Massey Ferguson GC1710 SCUT with a load of madrone wood. Also in the picture is some gravel I spread using the tractor.

In the distance, you can see a peek-a-boo slice of our pond. It's above the driver side loader arm.

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   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,186  
Here's my little Massey Ferguson GC1710 SCUT with a load of madrone wood. Also in the picture is some gravel I spread using the tractor.

In the distance, you can see a peek-a-boo slice of our pond. It's above the driver side loader arm.

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Gorgeous area! that red tractor is just the right color for that background - nice shot!
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,187  
I made this from an old log hook which had a broken 4' handle. It's turned from white oak, only decent thing I had around. Works well for moving rounds to the log lift without too much bending.

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Wishing everyone some relaxing time over the holidays.
Jim
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,188  
Very nice job on that log hook Jimmy.

gg
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,189  
Thanks. The knob at the handle end is part of a 1-1/4" union I threaded onto the oak - hope it stays on. Cheers
 
   / Tractors and wood! Show your pics #4,190  
I used my tractor to lift oak logs over my wagon this morning,

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It REALLY cuts out all of the lifting of big wood! Cutting logs on the ground, just to have to lift them to load them and again onto the splitter is a huge waste of time and energy,

Soon I had a pretty good load on my wagon,

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And some of those oak block are pretty BIG,

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Next job will be to roll those blocks right onto my splitters beam!

ooooh, did I mention that I LOVE my Jonsered 2260? lol

SR
 

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