Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Cycledude]

Very nice setup you have !
One thing for sure there’s nothing cheap about wood heat .

 

[Loaderman22]

I guess if you factor in your time, then no, it's not cheap overall. However the equipment I use to move the wood, my splitter, my main saw, and the wood stove in total cost me say about $5000. I own the land so I'm paying taxes on the trees regardless. Burning wood allows me to only use say 300 gallons of fuel oil a winter, and 50% of that probably goes to making hot water. The splitter I bought used, same with the loader, & the chainsaw I bought in the 90's. All have easily paid for themselves.

 

[Hoobie]

I guess if you factor in your time, then no, it's not cheap overall. However the equipment I use to move the wood, my splitter, my main saw, and the wood stove in total cost me say about $5000. I own the land so I'm paying taxes on the trees regardless. Burning wood allows me to only use say 300 gallons of fuel oil a winter, and 50% of that probably goes to making hot water. The splitter I bought used, same with the loader, & the chainsaw I bought in the 90's. All have easily paid for themselves.

I agree. If my time is considered a cost then no. But I am retired and the time I spend in the woods making firewood I consider quality time for my mental well being. Friends I have drive to the gym to work out all the time. Firewood is good or me mentally and physically.
My tractor I use for year round jobs as well. Mowing, brush mowing, snow plowing, hiring out to neighbours. Other equipment paid for long ago. And I heat almost entirely with wood.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Mud season is a good time for me to work up our firewood. So yesterday I started blocking up the wood I pulled out last fall. This will be 2024/25 firewood.

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I used to cut off the pile but I am not as good at climbing on piles and cutting with blocks rolling around my feet as I was. This way is slower but easier on my back.

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Ran out of gas - this is where I carry the saw gas and bar oil.

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Second tank same as the first.

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Two tanks was enough. I can say I got started. Spitting snow again now.

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gg

Nice job, but now you have a lot of rounds to pick up off the ground, all that bending over picking them up is what kills my back.

SR

 

[Loaderman22]

I agree. If my time is considered a cost then no. But I am retired and the time I spend in the woods making firewood I consider quality time for my mental well being. Friends I have drive to the gym to work out all the time. Firewood is good or me mentally and physically.
My tractor I use for year round jobs as well. Mowing, brush mowing, snow plowing, hiring out to neighbours. Other equipment paid for long ago. And I heat almost entirely with wood.

Yes, I find all sorts of things to keep this busy all year long.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

One thing for sure there’s nothing cheap about wood heat .

I don't agree with that. Everything I have to work with wood (except the woodstove) can be sold and I'd get back at least 80% of what I paid for it.

My equipment has "made me" thousands of dollars doing custom work, besides being used for MY firewood, and I've saved many thousands of dollars burning wood in my home rather than buying propane.

Best part is, we MUCH prefer wood heat to other ways of heating the house, it's really nice.

SR

 

[Loaderman22]

Nice job, but now you have a lot of rounds to pick up off the ground, all that bending over picking them up is what kills my back.

SR

I bought a couple sets of these, game changer on the picking up rounds. So much easier since you don't have to bend down as far.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I bought a couple sets of these, game changer on the picking up rounds. So much easier since you don't have to bend down as far.
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Those would help, but better yet, just don't cut them on/over the ground in the first place, then you don't have to bend over.

SR

 

[IXLR8]

Mud season is a good time for me to work up our firewood. So yesterday I started blocking up the wood I pulled out last fall. This will be 2024/25 firewood.

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I used to cut off the pile but I am not as good at climbing on piles and cutting with blocks rolling around my feet as I was. This way is slower but easier on my back.

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Ran out of gas - this is where I carry the saw gas and bar oil.

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Second tank same as the first.

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Two tanks was enough. I can say I got started. Spitting snow again now.

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gg

Nice job. I need to get me one of those grapple things.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Nice job, but now you have a lot of rounds to pick up off the ground, all that bending over picking them up is what kills my back.

SR

That's the thing - I don't pick them up. I set my bucket on the ground at the base of the pile and roll/guide the blocks down the pile and into the bucket. Then lift a bucket full of blocks to splitter height.

gg