Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Creamer]

TnT abbreviation for Top 'n Tilt (or Tip 'n Tilt). Basically replacing your 3 point hitch top link and the adjustable side link with hydraulic cylinders and running them via hydraulic rear remotes. It comes in very handy when grading with a box blade or York rake. I use the top link when brush hogging as well to lift up the rear of the brush how and lower it over some of the more stubborn brush.

To do it right, you want cylinders with piloted check valves (if I'm remembering that name correctly). I did not use them on mine, and it still works fine, but the piloted check valves would keep any settings I make locked in place better.

Thanks for the explanation. I agree that this would work well for moving wood. The TnT would be real nice but I do not have rear remotes or enough pump flow to run them well.
I love my rear forks and they spend more time on the tractor than any other implement. Just used them today to bring in an oak that fell. The biggest one is about 16" diameter and the two pieces are 15' long. This load took all steering away from my front tires but I did not have very far to go and it was all in a field so no big deal.

 

[motownbrowne]

Here's one of the Kubota this morning. I skidded a decent sized ash log up to the firewood yard. I threw a few red oak limbs on the forks from a tree the power line company felled. The other picture is my neighbors jubilee and splitter. I split darn near everything by hand, but if I have a pile of something stringy and nasty, I'll borrow her rig. Last picture is my truck with a little more than a face cord of red oak headed off to a customer. It's handy being able to load the truck on a moment's notice with the FEL.

 

[John_Mc]

Thanks for the explanation. I agree that this would work well for moving wood. The TnT would be real nice but I do not have rear remotes or enough pump flow to run them well.
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I had to get the rear remotes added to my NH TC33D. It was more than 10 years ago, so I don't remember the cost. You don;t need much flow at all to run the TnT. In fact, I debated adding flow restrictors to my cylinders to slow things down a bit. I ended up not adding the restrictors. You do want good flow if you are trying to run other implements off your rear remotes (a 3 pt hitch log splitter, for example).

If what you have is working for you now, it's probably not worth adding the rear remotes just for moving firewood. I was doing a lot of grading at the time, and it rreally helped speed up those types of jobs.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Thanks for the explanation. I agree that this would work well for moving wood. The TnT would be real nice but I do not have rear remotes or enough pump flow to run them well.
I love my rear forks and they spend more time on the tractor than any other implement. Just used them today to bring in an oak that fell. The biggest one is about 16" diameter and the two pieces are 15' long. This load took all steering away from my front tires but I did not have very far to go and it was all in a field so no big deal.
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I have a Carry-All and use it often but I often think that a set of rear forks like yours would be way more versatile and very handy.
So they are on my wise list. Would make them to be FEL mountable also even though I could not use much of their capacity up front.

gg

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

6000 pound for a 1/2 cord?

no. 6000 for full cord. So a half cord of green is around 3000. A bit dry his half cord may be 2 thousand. a lot of weight if you do not have the proper tractor and counter balance.

 

[Creamer]

I have a Carry-All and use it often but I often think that a set of rear forks like yours would be way more versatile and very handy.
So they are on my wise list. Would make them to be FEL mountable also even though I could not use much of their capacity up front.

gg

I skipped the carry-all and went straight for the adjustable forks. I do have a wood crate with the top and back off of it I use quite often on the forks as a carry-all. It is about 5' wide X 4' deep and 2' high. Very handy for a lot of things

 

[Creamer]

I have a Carry-All and use it often but I often think that a set of rear forks like yours would be way more versatile and very handy.
So they are on my wise list. Would make them to be FEL mountable also even though I could not use much of their capacity up front.

gg

I skipped the carry-all and went straight for the adjustable forks. I do have a wood crate with the top and back off of it I use quite often on the forks as a carry-all. It is about 5' wide X 4' deep and 2' high. Very handy for a lot of things

 

[arrow]

This year I decided to try and use pallets for wood stacking. Traditionally, I always single stacked rows for quick drying and then take all 5 or 6 cords back to the wood shed after a 2 year drying period. Breaking down the stack and hauling wood back up to the shed with the tractor bucket and a homemade carryall, then re-stacking all of it into the wood shed is extra steps.
I first tried building up the corners with the criss -cross method of wood stacking atop the pallet corners. I don't have the patience for that so I built stakes onto the pallets.Although stacking does not go as easily onto the pallets as a single row stack, I believe I'll save time with not having to re-stack.
To prove my point, I tried it both ways this year. I also did not have the patience to build up pallets but i figured I could do 5 or 6 per year until I get to the 30 I'll eventually need.

To me, this method still does not beat the splitter/conveyor belt/ into an enclosed cage method, but it should be better than how I was doing it. Every time I filled up a pallet, it was like putting another fish on the stringer. These are very heavy fish however as each pallet is about a quarter of a cord.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Might be the first time I've seen flip over forks on a CUT. Figured they'd hit the hood.

Edit: looked again and saw they were hook-on not flip-over. Neat design. Can you take them on and off without getting out of the seat?

 

[arrow]

Thanks for the explanation. I agree that this would work well for moving wood. The TnT would be real nice but I do not have rear remotes or enough pump flow to run them well.
I love my rear forks and they spend more time on the tractor than any other implement. Just used them today to bring in an oak that fell. The biggest one is about 16" diameter and the two pieces are 15' long. This load took all steering away from my front tires but I did not have very far to go and it was all in a field so no big deal.
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Love this pic Creamer. You guys got a nice layer of snow already. My favorite time to skid wood.