Tractors and wood! Show your pics

BackRoad · Nov 29, 2020

Mr. OldPath...looks like your tractor has chains on the rears - ever feel like you need them on the front also?

One other question...did you build up the leading edge of your bucket for reinforcement before adding the teeth? Any issue with bending or sagging on the bottom edge of the bucket?

Looks like your tractor is pretty well modified to meet your needs.

Gordon Gould · Nov 29, 2020

AndyMA said:
Today痴 work. Neighbors tree fell on my property a few weeks ago. Notice stump popped up after some of tree was cut away

Base of tree rapped in barbed wire

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Andy what kind of tree is that. I was thinking maybe oak but I've never seen that greenish color up here on any hardwood we have. There was a lot of spring left in those roots to pop the butt back up that high.

gg

4570Man · Nov 29, 2020

Gordon Gould said:
Andy what kind of tree is that. I was thinking maybe oak but I've never seen that greenish color up here on any hardwood we have. There was a lot of spring left in those roots to pop the butt back up that high.

gg

Poplar. And it burns about like gasoline soaked cardboard.

terryknight · Nov 29, 2020

4570Man said:
Poplar. And it burns about like gasoline soaked cardboard.

i concur

goeduck · Nov 29, 2020

I do burn some Poplar but only to start fires and get some coals going. Split small and dried out it is basically kindling.

Also known as gofer wood. Put some in and go fer more.

It does burn longer than newspaper, but not by a lot.

two_bit_score · Nov 29, 2020

More frequent clean outs needed too, I bet.

goeduck · Nov 29, 2020

two_bit_score said:
More frequent clean outs needed too, I bet.

I am not sure on that since I just use Poplar to start and I try not to let the stove the stove go out. So few starts other than cleaning.

Weight wise it is very light when dry so there is less actual wood that is being burned. Green it is like 50 % water and heavy and once it dries the cellular makeup must have a lot of voids in it. Probably why it burns so fast.

goeduck · Nov 29, 2020

Forgot to mention, the main reason I get rid of Poplar when it falls is that it will resprout from the down trunk. So I cut it and bonfire most of it but keep the straight sections to split for kindling. It is a stringy nasty splitting wood other than the straight-straight sections that spilt easy. I have to let it sit in the pile a year before burning it to dry out enough to light. On the ground it sucks up moisture like a sponge, basically a nurse log, and it will not light off well.

Oldpath05 · Nov 29, 2020

BackRoad said:
Mr. OldPath...looks like your tractor has chains on the rears - ever feel like you need them on the front also?

One other question...did you build up the leading edge of your bucket for reinforcement before adding the teeth? Any issue with bending or sagging on the bottom edge of the bucket?

Looks like your tractor is pretty well modified to meet your needs.

It's a Titan bolt on tooth bar, they ran out of the complete tooth bar kits last winter but I did find this tooth bar on their ebay store in April and bought that before that was gone, but had to get the teeth from another ebay site. No reinforcement on my bucket, for some reason my bucket edge is slightly curled upwards instead of down, I fitted the bar on and drilled and bolted then arranged the teeth in equal spaces. So now with tooth bar and cutting edge it adds up to about 1" thick on front of bucket, wish I done that when I bought the tractor.