Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Gordon Gould]

I do the same thing.

So I'm not the only one - good to know . Seems to dry better in our very short drying season. Especially this year.

gg

 

[wheelbuilder]

Now that it is August I'm moving my air dried wood into the shed when the mood strikes me. From here -

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To here -

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I know - old fashioned and extra work and all that. But it keeps me out of trouble.

gg

I do the same, but I try to wait until we get some cool days or evenings of possible.
That's a nice looking trailer, btw.

 

[Loaderman22]

Close...Just a pine log I had to move so I cut it up. Keeping it dry until I make kindling out of it. I can't be bothered with picking up and saving all those messy irregular slivers that come off the splitter. Another "To each his own" I guess.

gg

If it works for you, keep up the good work! I use a hay pitchfork to scoop up the tiny slivers and drop them in a bucket. The top layer is usually dry, and the heat from the wood stove dries out the rest. My neighbor does the same, but he splits on his blacktop driveway, so it's an easier cleanup.

 

[Gordon Gould]

I use quite a bit of kindling. Especially in the spring and fall when we just want a small fire every day. I have a pole that goes floor to ceiling about 16" from one side of the chimney that makes a kindling rack close to the stove in the basement. I use softwood off the landing or that has fallen and make kindling out of it. Fill that rack right up.

gg

 

[John_Mc]

So I'm not the only one - good to know . Seems to dry better in our very short drying season. Especially this year.

gg

Yeah, we don't have much for a drying season here. If I stack them out open to the sun and wind, with space between, I can easily get most species dried with one summer of drying. If I stack them more closely in my lean-to, I generally need two summers

 

[joeyd]

If it works for you, keep up the good work! I use a hay pitchfork to scoop up the tiny slivers and drop them in a bucket. The top layer is usually dry, and the heat from the wood stove dries out the rest. My neighbor does the same, but he splits on his blacktop driveway, so it's an easier cleanup.

I put a HF tarp under my wood splitter, even in the woods, to make clean up easier.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I put a HF tarp under my wood splitter, even in the woods, to make clean up easier.

Even just a couple pails under it works great.

There's NO WAY I'd spend any of my time making small splits, just to start fires when they are already made!

SR

 

[Gordon Gould]

I guess I do it all wrong because I just don't see much there to start a fire with :confused3: But I have no problem with the way you get kindling.





gg

 

[aeblank]

I guess I do it all wrong because I just don't see much there to start a fire with :confused3: But I have no problem with the way you get kindling.

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gg

My area is way way way messier than that. I grab some chunks, but end up using the tractor to scrape down to the ground and use it as fill.

 

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So I'm not the only one - good to know . Seems to dry better in our very short drying season. Especially this year.

gg

I do it the same way. It is the only part I think of the wood game as "unfun." I never thought I'd have to cover my stacks (which are single row) cause I didn't think it mattered but red oak definitely dries better with a tarp over it for all 2 years that it's out there before moving it to the wood shed..