Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Creamer]

Thanks Roadhunter! I had not heard of that. I am going to dig into it more in the area of crop production/economics. How much do you make a year and what crops is it used on in your area?

As you can see you have my curiosity peaked!

 

[roadhunter]

I got hooked a couple of years ago and really enjoy working with others who feel the same way. I currently process about 100 tons of chips per month and plan to expand to 1,000 once demand increases. I also help people make biochar with thier wood waste. I am focused more on industrial uses as a replacement for activated carbon. We have done testing on things like mercure capture from coal fired power plant flue gas and also have work going on at UNL utilizing biochar as a livestock feed supplement. There are many applications. Let me know if you have more questions and i'm happy to help.

There is a biochar group over in Illinois that may be of interest to you.
Illinois Biochar Website

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Been busy. I bought my winch about 8 years ago. I had a 28 hp montana tractor when I bought it. It worked great for that size tractor as well as my 47 hp kubota. I will say you have to be careful when pulling a bit sideways because you can flip your tractor. The winch is a wallenstine made by the Mennonites in Ontario. At the time the price with pretty much $2500. The model number was fx6500 which can pull 6500 pounds. The great thing about the winch is you do not have to build so many roads and you find ways to use it more efficiently. For example I cut about a cord down and gather it all up with the winch. This way when I finished processing the wood it is in one big pile. When I go to load it into the trailer it is one stop. I like my winch and never had any problems with it.

Gaproperty, I'm in Newfoundland. Wondering where you got your winch and how much? Size hp is your tractor ? Is that what you use primarily for firewood? I also have a j5 tractor, I could build a decent tandem trailer and drive to most wood. But have been thinking of a winch for a 28 hp tractor. I thought also if I got the winch of making a 3 point for the j5 and hydro pto to power the winch so I could use either or.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

thanks. I am on the prowl for some of the cages.

Your suggestion of splitting directly to storage is spot on. I picked up some ICB metal pallet cages and split directly to them. It has saved a ton of time and handling. Nice video.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I bought that one from a tractor dealership about 8 years ago. I have never seen them sense but would like to get another one. One thing is when you go to take the chain off the log your have to pull the end of the chain all the way through the slip knot or loosen the loop and slide it over the end of the log as apposed to the hook style you can just unhook the chain at hook to get the chain of the log.

gaproperty-

Good video. Did you make or buy the the choker/clevis end?

 

[roadhunter]

Easy homemade chain chokers. I just welded half links into the hooks so the chain barely fits through. Works great.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

A friends chimney went on fire... what was the cause? H She install a new metal chimney and new stove and got a professional installer to install everything correctly just 2 months ago. She burned a chimney cleaning log one every 6 weeks as it was recommended. She burned seasoned hardwood. She was sitting in front of the stove when she heard the chimney go on fire. She had baking soda which put out the fire in the stove. The metal chimney warped so bad that she cannot light a fire because it woulds not contain the smoke. So in just two months she had a chimney fire. Can anybody tell me what went wrong here? Should the chimney warp at the connections from the fire.

 

[Creamer]

What is the set-up? A wood stove with a stove pipe going up a ways and then into the chimney or direct out of the stove into the chimney? Typically you need to have a little build-up to get a fire, i.e. you have to have something to burn. She must not have had a good draft? It also sounds like she had way too much heat going right up the chimney for he metal chimney to get that hot.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Assuming everything else was right:

Personally, I don't think those chimney logs do much of anything!

Second, I'd be looking at just how "seasoned" that firewood really was?

SR

 

[94BULLITT]

A friends chimney went on fire... what was the cause? H She install a new metal chimney and new stove and got a professional installer to install everything correctly just 2 months ago. She burned a chimney cleaning log one every 6 weeks as it was recommended. She burned seasoned hardwood. She was sitting in front of the stove when she heard the chimney go on fire. She had baking soda which put out the fire in the stove. The metal chimney warped so bad that she cannot light a fire because it woulds not contain the smoke. So in just two months she had a chimney fire. Can anybody tell me what went wrong here? Should the chimney warp at the connections from the fire.

For the chimney to catch on fire it had to have creosote built up. The chimney warped from the fire.
Was she really burning seasoned wood?
What kind of surface temps does she run? Is she one of these people that lets the stove simmer.
What kinda of stove?

"Creamer" has a good idea about the draft but I would think they should have checked it when they installed the chimney.