Recent content by sizzami

I built this to clip trees from around apple trees in the orchard , it is designed to cut 4'' and down trees balsam and poplar mostly works really well. I scounged most of the steel and got a great deal on the cylinders.

I built an all angle plow for a polaris ranger used a new pump unit ordered through a friend who is a new plow dealer , the unit works great except the lowering speed is really slow the model is pu3593 is there anything i can do to speed it up?

I have built a lot of splitters every cut every weld every nut and bolt , this is by far the best , three inch ram 16 gpm pump 20 stroke 11hp 1.25 thick t wedge I have looked at and built splitters with huge engines huge pumps and huge rams , nobody seems to pay attention to wedge profile...

I am sick of buying oil so I decided to build an out door wood stove this is phase one , cleared the spot and leveled it buit this little post and beam shed for my furnace I am now working on the furnace itself , will post more pics as I make more progress I am curious about whether anyone...

when I bought my new ck 30 the dealer tried really hard to sell me on plumbing my grapple (fel) into the rear remotes , I have heard alot about how people dont mind having to use a seperate lever to control thier grapples or even a foot pedal but for me there was no doubt , working in the woods...

I have had my winch for two years now I finally made time to add a hitch to it I kept it flush with the front so it wont snag , I also added some tubes to hold spare hitches when not in use , I thought I took pics of them but guess I will have to wait till morning.

I built the new wagon and then screwed a milk crate with two slices cut in the end add a couple of bungees and presto chainsaw holder in a very conveniant location.

check out the new firewood cart , I sawed some 2 x 8 hemlock for the deck and 1 x 8 for the sideboards , 3000 pound mh axle that pins in place and also pins onto my sawmill ,it holds a run . my favorite thing so far is the trailer hitch on the back so I can also tow my log splitter , oh yeah...

i just traded in my 86 1910 for a brand new ck 30 kioti , I got an igland grapple qc bracket and dealer install on the electric crossover valve , loaded industrial tires and studded chains , I gave my 1910 with homade grapple, quick change bucket chains and loaded rears, I walked away paying...

I built this splitter for a customer and I am proud and want to show itoff but also I wonder if anyone else has built a lafontabe , and also am curious about those of you who have an original , and what you think of the original design. I changed a few thinggs mainly I moved away from the spring...

I bought my 1910 ford three years ago with the original tires the fronts were foam filled and the rears , loaded with chloride, the rears were checked pretty bad but didnt leak about a year ago my right rear started seeping just enough to see chloride residue around the checks and now it is...

I am building a dump hoist for 2002 F-250 v8 I bought this truck about a year ago and it has been great but the wheel wells have started to rust so I got a great deal on a new flat bed, and I thought it would be great to be able to dump firewood and mulch etc. it has helper springs and airbags...

the pictures of the small kinda pitifull grapple represent my first atempt at building a lightwieght simple rotating grapple it worked well for a couple of years , it did however keep breaking at the end of the cylinder and had only about 190 degree rotation , so I decided to build a new one...

many of you saw and liked the loader that In built for my log splitter, the firewood market being what it is I decided to move in another direction, so I took it off the splitter and modified it to fit on my low bed now I use it to load and unload my sawmill this has given me at least a...

I wanted to add wheels to my mill but I wanted to be able to remove them easily so that I could keep the rig low to the ground when in use, I also thought it would be nice to have an axle around that I could us on other stuff ,so I built this carriage which will pin in place. the rails are 4...