Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

I thought that as well, but in searching, I've seen skidding tongs both with and without a swivel, and lifting tongs with and without a swivel.

I use "skidding" tongs on my log arch, I skid them closer & lift up all in one motion. I also have a pair of hand log tongs for use around splitter, wouldn't split without them now. Here's a pic from today.

 

[John_Mc]

...I also have a pair of hand log tongs for use around splitter, wouldn't split without them now.

Anything like these?

 

[Loaderman22]

Anything like these?

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Yes, but green

 

[jwalk2c]

I have the Oregon brand 12in lifting tongs, and use them when I have a bunch of cut wood to pick up off ground in that size range 5 to 12 inch, and need to carry it to my pickup or trailer.

I think I bought at Baileys years ago.

Works best when you have 2 to balance load!

 

[Oldpath05]

Not really firewood season yet more like kindlenading season, this is how I avoid 52 pickup or in this case 5200 pickup.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not really firewood season yet more like kindlenading season, this is how I avoid 52 pickup or in this case 5200 pickup.

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I've never seen that done with the tiedown straps before, but it looks like a really good way of handling small wood. I usually pick up cedar ends butted off to make logs, cut them to length and hand split enough to fill the kindling box as I need them.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Yes - really neat trick Old-P. Clever !! I use butt end cut offs from all the rotten fir I make saw logs out of. If I ever get some stickers I will remember your method.

gg

 

[Mallard5Farmhouse]

Cut and split some firewood with my LS XR 4040. Here's a video New LS Tractor, Echo Chainsaw, Black Diamond Log Splitter Commercial?? - YouTube

 

[Mikejeakins]

Where does everyone carry your chainsaws and fuel bar oil on your tractor?

 

[Jstpssng]

My winch has a saw scabbard. I usually carry a gallon of gas and oil into the woods where I'm working and leave it there. My main can stays in the pickup, so I can fill up on the landing or in the woods. File and bar wrench are in the pocket on my chaps; and I have recently added a tourniquet Combat Application Tourniquet (C-A-T) | AED Superstore - 30-0001, 30-0023[ROI]+Shopping&utm_content=Everything+Else+All+Products&msclkid=70815b2757b51874d45a0094b4b3c926. Hopefully I will never use it.

 

[Rustyiron]

Where does everyone carry your chainsaws and fuel bar oil on your tractor?

A bonus from my skid plate project.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nice little compartment and that's smart carrying a spare tire for your horse too.

gg

 

[Gordon Gould]

Take a look here

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...carry-your.html?highlight=carry+your+chainsaw


You can start like this like most of us probably did



gg

 

[4570Man]

Where does everyone carry your chainsaws and fuel bar oil on your tractor?

A don’t. If it’s a brief project I carry just the saw in the tractor. If I need more than that I bring my Mule with all that stuff in the bed. There just isn’t enough room on the tractor to get everything I want to have for more than a tank of gas project. I don’t carry saws in the tractor bucket or the dump truck bed. Bad things happen to stuff that rides there.

 

[Gordon Gould]

A don’t. If it’s a brief project I carry just the saw in the tractor. If I need more than that I bring my Mule with all that stuff in the bed. There just isn’t enough room on the tractor to get everything I want to have for more than a tank of gas project. I don’t carry saws in the tractor bucket or the dump truck bed. Bad things happen to stuff that rides there.

I never had a problem except the times I forgot it was there and used the bucket. But it was a good learning experience and a way to start. Is this better ?



I guess what I am trying to say is carry your stuff anyway you can. Use some ideas you see on here maybe - there are tons of good ones. Pretty soon you will work out a system that works for you.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Take a look here

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums...carry-your.html?highlight=carry+your+chainsaw


You can start like this like most of us probably did

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gg

Yeah the old saw in the bucket trick.........When I first got my tractor 11 years ago I thought like everyone here that a FEL was a great place to carry a chainsaw and whatnot til I scoop up a bucket of dirt and dumped it out with my $500.00 saw, luckily there was no damage to the saw, I soon put that out of practice.

 

[terryknight]

also be careful where you leave your saw while working. i put mine up close to a pine trunk that i had cut to length thinking it would be safe next to the trunk and i wouldn't hit it with the tractor, but i did pick up that log with the grapple without moving the saw. luckily it only cracked the clutch cover

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
You got out of it cheaply. I think that I paid about $125 to get my old 254 welded back together.
It's a pretty sickening feeling when you look down and see your saw rolling under the bucket mixed in with the dirt you're back dragging.

 

[terryknight]

i forgot i had to replace 2 antivibe springs, but yes i did get out without much damage

 

[4570Man]

I never had a problem except the times I forgot it was there and used the bucket. But it was a good learning experience and a way to start. Is this better ?

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I guess what I am trying to say is carry your stuff anyway you can. Use some ideas you see on here maybe - there are tons of good ones. Pretty soon you will work out a system that works for you.

gg

For once I learned from others mistakes and I’ve never done the saw in bucket trick. I’ve dropped logs on 2 gas cans on different occasions, and a window frame in the back of my dump truck and dumped out a 3rd at a firewood delivery. One can was unhurt and I got that 3rd can back. The window frame required quite a bit of work to straighten. I decided to quit that practice while I was only mildly behind. I’ll pretty much only set saws on top of a stump too tall to drive over, on my equipment, or behind a tree away from the work area.