Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

You could get the tin man from Wizard of Oz or rig up some sort of lubrication tank on the side of your winch tower and use some of the old motor oil you got kicking around...

Thats probably what it would take, maybe grease would last longer. This is a vertical splitter but I like standing up so I keep it horizontal. this winter I'll bring in the shop and take the wedge apart, looks like 8, 1/2" bolts holding it on the beam, I think most vertical splitters are the same way...

 

[Oldpath05]

That sounds like some pretty nasty firewood in the making...

It will keep the sawdust from flying around.............

 

[Oldpath05]

I got 3 more loads in this afternoon makes it 13, only 15 needed to get to bare ground again, 20 will take me to June. Finally a feel of fall in the air and I could keep the wood stove going......

 

[Loaderman22]

That sounds like some pretty nasty firewood in the making...

It's just to lube the beam, and with just a couple drips per cycle, it wouldn't be bad at all. Besides, the oil burns

 

[Loaderman22]

My splitter has a grease zerk on each side of the push block. I also have a taller thin wedge, it doesn't push the split open as far as the more wedge shaped splitters, but it is a little less resistance through some of the big pieces.

 

[Jstpssng]

I had forgotten about it, but my father used to put a light squirt of grease on the beam before using his. I have that splitter now, so better start doing the same.

Hey OldPath, how big is a load? 20 bucketsful isn't much, 20 dumptruck loads is quite a bit. We used to fill my father's KB5 several times over the course of the day but we were just cutting it on the cordwood saw, he split and stacked it later.

 

[Oldpath05]

My splitter has a grease zerk on each side of the push block. I also have a taller thin wedge, it doesn't push the split open as far as the more wedge shaped splitters, but it is a little less resistance through some of the big pieces.
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There must be a ware bar behind the zerk. I'd have to be careful putting a zerk on my wedge cause the wedge is going through the wood. Yes there is more resistance that way, it's worse on frozen wood, a little pressure and bang the wood sometimes flies apart where as thin wedge is more likely to slide threw........

 

[Oldpath05]

I had forgotten about it, but my father used to put a light squirt of grease on the beam before using his. I have that splitter now, so better start doing the same.

Hey OldPath, how big is a load? 20 bucketsful isn't much, 20 dumptruck loads is quite a bit. We used to fill my father's KB5View attachment 674359 several times over the course of the day but we were just cutting it on the cordwood saw, he split and stacked it later.

I'd like to have a truck like that in 4 wheel drive........

I need 15 of these trailer loads.......

The trailer fills my my 3'x4' wood cart up 3 times......

 

[Jstpssng]

There must be a ware bar behind the zerk. I'd have to be careful putting a zerk on my wedge cause the wedge is going through the wood. Yes there is more resistance that way, it's worse on frozen wood, a little pressure and bang the wood sometimes flies apart where as thin wedge is more likely to slide threw........

The brickyard had a 4 foot splitter with a wide wedge. When a stubborn piece released on that, you did not want to be standing in the way!

 

[Oldpath05]

Here it is when new.