Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[ctrider]

This is half of one log. I’m glad there aren’t many more of these. I’m also glad I have a vertical splitter.

 

[hunt4570]

This is half of one log. I’m glad there aren’t many more of these. I’m also glad I have a vertical splitter.


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Thats a big one! And the main reason I keep a vertical splitter.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thats a big one! And the main reason I keep a vertical splitter.

That's the main reason I keep a big enough tractor around so I can easily handle them. lol

SR

 

[Gordon Gould]

Anyone who maintains woods roads knows that it is an on-going job to keep them open. I thought that I was in pretty good shape until we had an ice storm followed by several days of snow squalls and continuous snow showers last week. I started opening things back up this afternoon. Mostly dead branches, dead trees, and bent over smallish trees. I used the grapple and winch, which ever was easiest, to get them off the trail and out of the way. I took a couple pics in two spots.

gg

 

[jeepcoma]

We had a lot of limbs down as well from the ice storm. Finally got around to getting some cleanup done, I was able to get the bigger branches pulled out of the snow but the smaller stuff will have to wait for the landscape rake and bucket in the spring. Forks sure beat pulling branches by hand, but a grapple sure would be nice... had about a dozen of these across the property, so I didn't have much time for photos. Thankfully, nothing really came down in the woods, it was all the wolf pines that had some massive branch reach that came down. Lost power, lost internet for a few days. Could have been much worse, as they were predicting 30 mph winds and we had tons of ice on everything, it would have been a disaster.

All the crud on the front is from turning the compost pile.

Sure is pretty though

 

[hunt4570]

That's the main reason I keep a big enough tractor around so I can easily handle them. lol

SR

To each their own Rob, but I’m just a 70-year-old man I don’t wanna work that hard! I pretty much only cut enough wood for my own. Use for lumber or firewood.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

To each their own Rob, but I’m just a 70-year-old man I don’t wanna work that hard! I pretty much only cut enough wood for my own. Use for lumber or firewood.

You are only 70? You are still young. lol

SR

 

[hunt4570]

You are only 70? You are still young. lol

SR

Well kinda young Rob, just kinda young.

 

[Loaderman22]

This is half of one log. I’m glad there aren’t many more of these. I’m also glad I have a vertical splitter.

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Nice trailer, looks to be a good size and rather handy

 

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Speaking of vertical splitters - is it generally a thing that they move around when splitting vertically? As the big round gets split parts of it get shoved into the ground and the whole thing moves around which can be a pain; I suppose having a bigger "foot" would help but I wonder if that would also interfere with the normal horizontal split, or at least interfere with me throwing splits into the tote.

 

[WinterDeere]

Speaking of vertical splitters - is it generally a thing that they move around when splitting vertically?

No. As long as the round stays on the foot, movement is not really an issue.

Now, on those rare occasions when a round slips off the foot, you'll find the splitter slowly pushing itself skyward, as the wedge comes down. Never a big deal, just reverse, reposition, and carry on.

 

[grsthegreat]

Speaking of vertical splitters - is it generally a thing that they move around when splitting vertically? As the big round gets split parts of it get shoved into the ground and the whole thing moves around which can be a pain; I suppose having a bigger "foot" would help but I wonder if that would also interfere with the normal horizontal split, or at least interfere with me throwing splits into the tote.

Mine is attached to 3 point, so no movement while splitting

 

[LouNY]

Mine is attached to 3 point, so no movement while splitting

I like that style, stick one of those big rounds under it, then slide the others out of the bucket onto it and split away no lifting involved.

 

[ptsg]

Speaking of vertical splitters - is it generally a thing that they move around when splitting vertically? As the big round gets split parts of it get shoved into the ground and the whole thing moves around which can be a pain; I suppose having a bigger "foot" would help but I wonder if that would also interfere with the normal horizontal split, or at least interfere with me throwing splits into the tote.

Like other posters said, should have no movement at all as the rounds just rest against a foot.

Here is a 12T vertical splitter splitting eucalyptus, powered by a Kubota L175 just idling along. No gas engine screaming.

 

[dodge man]

Speaking of vertical splitters - is it generally a thing that they move around when splitting vertically? As the big round gets split parts of it get shoved into the ground and the whole thing moves around which can be a pain; I suppose having a bigger "foot" would help but I wonder if that would also interfere with the normal horizontal split, or at least interfere with me throwing splits into the tote.

I have had mine squirm around some. I can’t remember exactly why, maybe an odd shaped round that part of it’s pushing against the ground instead of the base.

 

[Gordon Gould]

That's a nice splitter in the video. It has a nice big base to move the block around on instead of a small foot like on my Husky horizontal/vertical splitter. On big blocks I use vertical. I work off of my carry all to give me a smooth surface to work on. It also makes it easy to keep the block on the foot and against the beam - stays there on it's own, no lifting and leveraging the block required.

gg

 

[WinterDeere]

That's a nice splitter in the video. It has a nice big base to move the block around on instead of a small foot like on my Husky horizontal/vertical splitter. On big blocks I use vertical. I work off of my carry all to give me a smooth surface to work on. It also makes it easy to keep the block on the foot and against the beam - stays there on it's own, no lifting and leveraging the block required.

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Same exact splitter I run, but mine's been mod'd with bigger pump, hoses, and a bigger engine to turn the large pump. Works just the same, but with 6 second full travel + return time, versus the original 11-12 seconds.

 

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Like other posters said, should have no movement at all as the rounds just rest against a foot.

Here is a 12T vertical splitter splitting eucalyptus, powered by a Kubota L175 just idling along. No gas engine screaming.

My rounds initially are on the foot but I find that very stingy wood (most of my oak) doesn't always come apart with the first split so part(s) of the round invariably end up hanging off the foot and may be pushed into the ground.

 

[ctrider]

Nice trailer, looks to be a good size and rather handy

Thanks, it has come in handy and was free! It was abandoned on the side of the road for weeks with a wheel missing and torn up lug nuts and the registration plate removed. The town wanted it gone, so I grabbed it, threw some of my old Jeep wheels on it and the plywood sides. I welded some angle iron onto the axle to beef it up.

 

[goeduck]

I cannot lift these rounds. I have trees two or three times this diameter, they end up going to the burn pile.