Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[goeduck]

I got a 2 wheeler with my primary and about only use being to haul cement. The 2 wheeler is much easier to load and use without flipping. If you’re trying to put mulch in a landscaping or something like that it’s not as maneuverable.

Those were my thoughts as well so I never got a 2 wheel model. Seemed like a solution in need of a problem.

 

[Oldpath05]

I have this one, what license do I need for this one??? When heavy, I don't lift it, except to make turns, just push it like an offroad cart.

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Here you go I declare you certifiable..........

But wait theres more, for only 100 easy payments of $19.95 I can up grade your license to operate one of these re-invented wheelbarrows, wheelbarrow not included because we dont know how easy those payments will be yet, you have to contact down under for more info..........
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[John_Mc]

I do not tow a lot of logs with my Tractor, I find it too slow, I prefer to use the ATV with a log arch. I can't tow as large, or multiples, but I can go 10X faster.

In most of the areas where I work, I can't safely pull a load even at my tractor's top speed. I'm probably more like half speed. So an ATV would not have a speed advantage. There are still places it might be handy, since there are spots I can't get to with the tractor, even with the 230' of cable on the logging winch.

If the tree is too large I usually bring the splitter to the log, then haul out the splits, also keeps more mess in the woods. Thanks GG for posting, good thing to keep in mind.

I also like doing the splitting in the woods when I can. (Keeping the mess out of the yard makes my wife happy as well.) I'll still bring a few logs home, so I can work on some firewood when I don't have time to fully gear up and head out into the woods. When we're having a group work session for our community firewood donation program, it generally works better to bring the logs to a central location. (Though we haven't been able to do much of the large group stuff this year.)

 

[Loaderman22]

Here you go I declare you certifiable..........
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But wait theres more, for only 100 easy payments of $19.95 I can up grade your license to operate one of these re-invented wheelbarrows, wheelbarrow not included because we dont know how easy those payments will be yet, you have to contact down under for more info..........
The World's FIRST Ride On Wheelbarrow - YouTube
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Thank you for the certification, but I think I will skip the payment plan, that's kind of like buying the extended warranty, I'll pass.

 

[Oldpath05]

In most of the areas where I work, I can't safely pull a load even at my tractor's top speed. I'm probably more like half speed. So an ATV would not have a speed advantage. There are still places it might be handy, since there are spots I can't get to with the tractor, even with the 230' of cable on the logging winch.



I also like doing the splitting in the woods when I can. (Keeping the mess out of the yard makes my wife happy as well.) I'll still bring a few logs home, so I can work on some firewood when I don't have time to fully gear up and head out into the woods. When we're having a group work session for our community firewood donation program, it generally works better to bring the logs to a central location. (Though we haven't been able to do much of the large group stuff this year.)

What,,,,, even with 230' of cable,,,,, thats twice as much as my Fransgard are you on a mountain side somewhere. And why you still splitting wood in the woods with a trailer with pulp loader, by which you are getting over due of posting more pictures of that trailer..............

 

[John_Mc]

What,,,,, even with 230' of cable,,,,, thats twice as much as my Fransgard are you on a mountain side somewhere. And why you still splitting wood in the woods with a trailer with pulp loader, by which you are getting over due of posting more pictures of that trailer..............

It depends on what I'm doing. If I'm in an area that lends itself to bunching logs by the trail, I'll often use the winch to pull them trailside and cut them right there. Any time I need to mover longer lengths, the forwarding trailer generally gets put to use: Bringing out logs for one of our community firewood volunteer days, saw logs (I don't have a mill, but occasionally barter with a friend or two that does), or when I need to pick up move firewood logs off-site.

Since you asked, here's a picture of a load I picked up that was about 25-50 feet off the side of the road, where someone was clearing the powerline right-of-way for their new house. It was a hard maple that they were donating to our firewood donation "WoodBank". (They cut the logs a bit shorter than I would have liked, but I'm not going to pass up a donation of such a prime firewood species.) I used the hydraulic winch on the trailer to pull the logs to the side of the road, then loaded the logs on the trailer. This was a case where I was glad the previous owner had ordered the trailer with options. The winch is much slower than my 3 point hitch logging winch, but it's very handy: the grapple only has a 9.5' reach, so the winch saves a lot of repositioning of the trailer. The little Honda engine powering the hydraulics allows my to run it behind a pickup truck, rather than making it dependent on tractor hydraulics.

 

[Oldpath05]

It depends on what I'm doing. If I'm in an area that lends itself to bunching logs by the trail, I'll often use the winch to pull them trailside and cut them right there. Any time I need to mover longer lengths, the forwarding trailer generally gets put to use: Bringing out logs for one of our community firewood volunteer days, saw logs (I don't have a mill, but occasionally barter with a friend or two that does), or when I need to pick up move firewood logs off-site.

Since you asked, here's a picture of a load I picked up that was about 25-50 feet off the side of the road, where someone was clearing the powerline right-of-way for their new house. It was a hard maple that they were donating to our firewood donation "WoodBank". (They cut the logs a bit shorter than I would have liked, but I'm not going to pass up a donation of such a prime firewood species.) I used the hydraulic winch on the trailer to pull the logs to the side of the road, then loaded the logs on the trailer. This was a case where I was glad the previous owner had ordered the trailer with options. The winch is much slower than my 3 point hitch logging winch, but it's very handy: the grapple only has a 9.5' reach, so the winch saves a lot of repositioning of the trailer. The little Honda engine powering the hydraulics allows my to run it behind a pickup truck, rather than making it dependent on tractor hydraulics.

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It looks like the loader lifts a good size log, wonder if that was a tapping tree with spiles still in the wood, so wheres the trailer winch I cant see it?

 

[John_Mc]

It looks like the loader lifts a good size log, wonder if that was a tapping tree with spiles still in the wood, so wheres the trailer winch I cant see it?

The winch sits under the base of the grapple. The cable comes out right at the top of the pedestal where the grapple arm mounts. I don't have photos of the winch itself. I do have this video of winching a log in shortly after I brought it home. As I mentioned, it's a whole lot slower than my logging winch, but it does beat moving the trailer right up to every single log.

M95 winching - YouTube

 

[goeduck]

Thank you for the certification, but I think I will skip the payment plan, that's kind of like buying the extended warranty, I'll pass.

These days you probably need wheelbarrow operator certification to work on a construction site.

 

[two_bit_score]

The winch sits under the base of the grapple. The cable comes out right at the top of the pedestal where the grapple arm mounts. I don't have photos of the winch itself. I do have this video of winching a log in shortly after I brought it home. As I mentioned, it's a whole lot slower than my logging winch, but it does beat moving the trailer right up to every single log.

M95 winching - YouTube

Purty nice little rig!