Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[MinnesotaEric]

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With at least one fleeting timber wolf looking on, I set my slash piles on fire!

 

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That is just the long term wood lot. By the time I burn firewood, it has been cut for at least two years. Once in the spring, and once in the fall I top off one half of my wood shed which is located 10 feet outside my walkout basement. One half of the wood shed lasts me pretty close to a year, so I refill one half in the spring and burn it the next winter, and the other half I try to top off in the fall from summer burning. I often can not get through the "summer" half of the wood shed though.
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Firewood is usually in here close to a year before it gets burned.

As you can see it is a family affair. We all love working outside together.

From there, my firewood (now seasoned to approximately 8%) or less goes into my state of the art, Froling Turbo 3000 indoor, wood gasification boiler. I use it to heat my home, and domestic hot water year round. I have an 800 gallon storage tank in my basement with close to 200k btu of heating coils inside it. One coil is dedicated to domestic hot water. In the summer, I burn approximately 100 pounds of wood (in one, weekly burn) to produce all of our hot water needs for the week. Most winter days I burn approximately 80-100 bounds a day. In the last week or so, I have been pushing close to 160-180 pounds a day. It is -14 outside today, but my house is 72.

I have not bought oil for my oil furnace since 2011.

Here is a pic of my wood boiler.
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I did say don't get me started...

What is your tally for wood use for the entire season?

 

[dieselcrawler]

Spent about 4 hours in the lower field today. Dropped a standing dead maple, about 24" at the butt... if the log is worth sawing, it's about 16' long. The rest got cut into firewood, and hauled out. More than a truck load, stacked. Chains on all 4's, truck crawled up the hill like a tank. Dropped a small locust and ash that was close by as well. Still need to haul up a few larger rounds, and split some... when my wife's cousin comes over with his splitter, he's getting some of it.

 

[Loaderman22]

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This is how I move my firewood around.

 

[MossRoad]

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This is how I move my firewood around.

Articulated brethren! :laughing:

 

[Gordon Gould]

Diesel-C, your landscape looks a little bleaker this time of year. Where did your nice green hills go

gg

 

[Loaderman22]

Looking good MossRoad. A lot of fun aren't they, just seem to get in & around everything! I use the log arch to bring the logs out of the woods, then cut to length @ the splitting area, @ stack right into these pallet crates, then use the swinger to move the pallet right outside the basement door. I scored 8 of them from a job site. We did a stone patio & it all came in these crates. They are pallets on the bottom, & 1x4 pine sides. I cut one side off & they work pretty good. I can also throw them on the 3 pt & run them right into the woods for the smaller stuff. I don't know about you guys, but the less times I have to move the wood the better for me.

 

[plowhog]

Hiker, that's a nice looking wood fired heater setup. But if that's an exhaust vent above it -- that would not pass code in my area. 45 degree max bend on those around here.

 

[dieselcrawler]

Diesel-C, your landscape looks a little bleaker this time of year. Where did your nice green hills go

gg

The green is hiding under all the weeds I didn't get the chance to brush hog last year... the fields in the background haven't been mowed since summer of 2015. I spent what time I had in 2016/17 on the other side behind the house, and still have more to cut/clean up before I can get back to this one. But the other side was/is grown up far worse, and is broken up in smaller areas more than the one pictured above.

I got new blades for the brush hog for Christmas, that should help cut quality a lot.

 

[MossRoad]

Looking good MossRoad. A lot of fun aren't they, just seem to get in & around everything! I use the log arch to bring the logs out of the woods, then cut to length @ the splitting area, @ stack right into these pallet crates, then use the swinger to move the pallet right outside the basement door. I scored 8 of them from a job site. We did a stone patio & it all came in these crates. They are pallets on the bottom, & 1x4 pine sides. I cut one side off & they work pretty good. I can also throw them on the 3 pt & run them right into the woods for the smaller stuff. I don't know about you guys, but the less times I have to move the wood the better for me.

Yeah, this little critter can fit through a 48" gate, or in the back of a standard pickup truck bed. Goes pretty much anywhere, like right up onto the car hauler to bring off the rounds.

We own 20 acres of land about 9 miles from our home, so, unfortunately, there's more times I have to handle the firewood in loading and unloading the trailer to get the wood home. I'm thinking of putting some sort of boom on the trailer to load full length wood so I don't have to hand-load the rounds out at the property. Then I could just cut it off the trailer and drop it right at/on the splitter.