Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

Oh my word. Just shoot me in the eye if I had to do that to burn wood.

Well if you had outside woodstove and back pain you'd quickly reconsider, depending on pain, very quickly....

The good part about outside woodstove is no mess in house, the other good part is no getting wood inside, other good part is with 2' door and crane size no longer matters. There might be other good parts but I wouldn't know because my stove is down cellar and keeps my floors warm, even in a house thats not built for winter.......

 

[Jstpssng]

Well if you had outside woodstove and back pain you'd quickly reconsider, depending on pain, very quickly....

The good part about outside woodstove is no mess in house, the other good part is no getting wood inside, other good part is with 2' door and crane size no longer matters. There might be other good parts but I wouldn't know because my stove is down cellar and keeps my floors warm, even in a house thats not built for winter.......

100 years ago every house had a little building out back. I thought that we had progressed past those days.

I understand what you're saying about the mess outside, but it's much nicer to not freeze your tail off every time that the wood fire needs stoking.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I didn't say anything about setting standards on anyone, but when someone says they have to go in the woods on a 7* morning, one with half normal reasoning would say are you crazzy or just want a reason to brag how my tractor starts better than your tractor story, ok you win your tractor is the best, happy now......

Heck, I didn't know it was a contest, what did I win??

I also had no idea it was "bragging" to post that my tractor started on a cold morning, As for being crazy, i'm sure you are right about that, but it doesn't need to be cold to bring that out! lol

BTW, my loader tractor isn't the only tractor that will start in the cold around here, so send multiples of the winning prizes and when they get here, I won't post that they got lost in the mail...

SR

 

[goeduck]

Sounds exactly like us, wood during the day and thermostat at 66 for the evening when the fire goes down!

I get up a few times during the night to refill the wood-stove as well as keeping it going during the day. I keep the house around 70 degrees +/- 2 degrees all winter 24/7. If I have to leave for the better part of the day I put it the biggest piece of wood I can find in the stove so I still have embers to work with when I get back.

 

[hunt4570]

I get up a few times during the night to refill the wood-stove as well as keeping it going during the day. I keep the house around 70 degrees +/- 2 degrees all winter 24/7. If I have to leave for the better part of the day I put it the biggest piece of wood I can find in the stove so I still have embers to work with when I get back.

Yeah, I'm getting too lazy or something to stoke the fire at night! But yes, pack it before I go to bed at night so I have some embers to work with in the morning.

 

[ultrarunner]

The nice thing about the ceramic tile wood stove I have is one fire a day each day does a nice job and on the coldest below zero twice a day...

The downside is it takes hours to get any heat when stone cold... no such thing as a quick fire...

 

[John_Mc]

When I was professionally logging, we had two temps where we didn't have to work. 10* and 90*. I'd eat tree frogs before I'd ever go out and do wood again in summer.

I don't do this for a living, but do spend a fair amount of time at it for my own need or helping out others with firewood, saw logs, or various projects. 10˚-90˚F used to be my range as well. However, I've noticed my temperature range for actually working in the woods has narrowed in recent years. It's rare that I'm working by choice when temps approach 90˚, though I'll still do it if some project needs to get finished up. (I believe state law in Vermont requires all of us to gripe any time the temperature is over about 85˚ or so.) I enjoy working when it's 20˚or so. I'll still work in the woods in the teens, especially if know the day is going to warm up a bit. From about +15˚ to -20˚, if I'm out it's for fun (and then probably not when I'm exposed to the wind), not to get work done. I enjoy a good cross country ski or snowshoe, and just seeing what is going on. I do find it hard to believe I used to go backpacking and tent camping for week-long trips when it was well below zero. That's just too much for me these days.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I find it interesting that people will down hill ski in 0* weather, they will snow mobile in 0* weather, they go ice fishing in 0* weather, but don't go out on your tractor, you have to be crazy if you do that!! lol

SR

 

[deezler]

Had to buy a new group 26R battery for my tractor yesterday. I probably should have tried to find a slightly larger group size that would still fit, but oh well. She didn't want to crank well at anything under 15 degrees or so.

OldPath, I can think of several good reasons to start a tractor in the single digits, but the main one around here lately is to plow the driveway. As long as it ain't too windy, who cares what the temperature number is. Just bundle up and cover your face if you really have to. -13f this morning, I could sure feel that when gathering firewood from the screen porch in my PJs to stoke the woodstove.

 

[Loaderman22]

At least its not california or colorado... I wouldn't even go to one of those for a visit!

I hear what you're saying, but San Diego, California has about the most perfect weather I've ever been in, its pretty much exactly the same everyday all year long. Just 70's and 80's with a cool ocean breeze and it honestly never rains, so there is no standing water, which means no mosquitos ever, not many insects really. They do have ants tho. (& uncles too!) Now could I live there, no not my cup of tea, but I can easily see why people do. My Grandparents lived there. Grandad got up at 4am 6 days a week, 3 to go golfing, 3 to go fishing, Sunday he slept in.