Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Mike68]

Here is my little tractor and trailer out by the wood pile. I stack and season on pallets. The near 1/2 is for next year and the far side of the row is for this year.



I was considering building a firewood shed that would hold about 11 cord. Or two sheds similar in design to this.



Or similar to the one on the YouTube channel Outdoors with the Morgan’s. #930 The Best Way To Store Your FIREWOOD! - YouTube

How well does firewood season in the shed?

 

[Jstpssng]

I though Agway went under 10 years ago. TSC just moved into Belfast this fall, good place to get some grease and oil.

According to Mr Google, there's still an Agway up in Madison. That's a long ways to drive to buy your bird seed though.

 

[hunt4570]

First time I seen one of these and a wood splitter can be towed by it, looks like a steal for SC folks... 22 New Edition Bigtoolrack Reveal! - YouTube
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What the heck would you do with that thing??

 

[Gordon Gould]

I believe that this description about a Prince valve should answer your question.



Copied from this website... Prince Autocycle Log Splitter Valve | Hydraulic Catalog - Cylinder Services Inc

As an aside; I have the woodsplitter which my father purchased several decades ago. He had a piece of lightweight channel steel which lays on the beam to trip the detent, so it doesn't fully retract when splitting shorter wood.

Thank you Jutpssng - it is full extension rather than high pressure that starts the retract stroke by the description. I have never seen one of those.

gg

 

[Loaderman22]

What the heck would you do with that thing??

Well, you load it up with all the tools you're gonna need for the day, rakes, shovels, saws, chains, fluids. Then you throw it on the ole 3pt hitch and run it down into the woods. As you're on your way, you snap the rake in half on the first low branch, then lose the chain because you forgot to close & pin the tailgate shut. Then the creaking and moaning of the steel frame gives you a migraine, then you get to where you're gonna work and realize you forgot your axe, so you drive all the way back to the barn to get it. Now you're fed up with it so you take it back off the tractor but when you go to push it across the concrete on those little spindly legs, it stops dead on a tiny clump of mud, then it tips over because it's so top heavy with all the tools you didn't feel like unloading again. So that's what you do with it.

 

[Oldpath05]

What the heck would you do with that thing??

I thought that would be something you could use to carry all your tools to the club house, you know just incase you put up another roof and decide to cut it back off, all the tools needed would be right there in the Big Tool Rack.......

 

[John_Mc]

Question for you guys with Auto-Cycle valves: What kicks it into the reverse stroke, pressure or physical position of the wedge ?? One of those lifts would be handy when you are working at the tree in the woods which I've been doing more of and miss being able to use the bucket for a lift like on the landing. That kit looks pretty good. Probably couldn't make one for much less unless you had a bunch of steel hanging around.

gg

That's a good question. I tried to set up my splitter to do a short cycle when splitting 12" logs for a friends small wood stove. I thought if it was pressure related, I could put in a block to keep the cylinder from retracting all the way before the autostop kicked it off (I don't have a true auto-cycle. Mine just automatically stops at the end of the retraction stroke.) It should work, but I never could get it to (not that I spent much time on it). I would think the trip release has to be pressure activated: the valve has no idea where in the range of motion the cylinder is.

 

[Oldpath05]

The auto cycle is pressure activated. On some more difficult pieces I need to hold the handle in the power forward position until it starts moving through the wood. Then I can let it cycle from there.

I split a lot of maple and oak. Red and White. The white is so stringy that you need to cycle the wedge fully to separate the pieces. Not like that straight grained fir they use up in the Pacific Northwest.

The other thing I like about the auto cycle is that using just the near handle I can extend and manually retract the wedge.

I have a video. Just not sure how to attach it.

If you have a youtube account you post a video that way, if the video is downloaded on the com with your pictures you can try the icon to the right of> (insert picture icon) I never tried that yet.

 

[Oldpath05]

I have a strange question, whats wrong with just hitting the lever after the wood is split........... When I split wood I have to be right there anyways to re-split or throw wood on trailer, auto cycle sounds like a accident waiting to happen. I prefer just auto return......

 

[Oldpath05]

Here is my little tractor and trailer out by the wood pile. I stack and season on pallets. The near 1/2 is for next year and the far side of the row is for this year.

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I was considering building a firewood shed that would hold about 11 cord. Or two sheds similar in design to this.

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Or similar to the one on the YouTube channel Outdoors with the Morgan’s. #930 The Best Way To Store Your FIREWOOD! - YouTube

How well does firewood season in the shed?

I'm trying to figure out where the little tractor is, and I think that woodshed is copyrighted by VT people..........