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[mike0000]

What is the best implement to pick up splits from a pile of firwood?

I’m doing my best to cut out a lot of the handling steps of my firewood production/use. I now have multiple totes. I set one near my splitter and fill as I split then move with tractor forks. I know that wasn’t your question, but thought I’d suggest what I do, before the totes, splits went onto a trailer then to the wood shed.

 

[shooterdon]

I am using bags when processing firewood from the processor that is going into inventory.

The problem I am having is dumping the bags at the customer site. The pickup has a dump bed but even with the bottom of the bags tied down, the bag will not empty enough to be able to pull it off. I end up having to hand unload a lot of it.

I may need to dump the bags at my place and pick up the splits with an attachment. The grapple is useless for picking up splits.

I am considering a jib crane to pull the bag off the pile of splits but I do not have a lot of room for it with two bags in the bed.

Any ideas will be appreciated.

 

[Hoobie]

Mostly the infeed system and that I decided on the smallest model based on my tractors HP, I should have gone with the 6" model. The infeed gets stuck constantly, Im having to do a lot of trimming of branches to actually get them to feed properly. I may try to increase the spring tension on the infeed roller to see if that helps.

I have the 6" model. Pushing 200 hours on it. You will always need to do some branch trimming. Especially hardwood branches coming off the stem at right angles. More spring tension can help rollers grab and pull harder to prevent slipping. But not much in my experience. And more tension makes it harder to push a large stem under the roller.

 

[kozal01]

I have the 6" model. Pushing 200 hours on it. You will always need to do some branch trimming. Especially hardwood branches coming off the stem at right angles. More spring tension can help rollers grab and pull harder to prevent slipping. But not much in my experience. And more tension makes it harder to push a large stem under the roller.

Thanks for the feedback

 

[fc1]

Reclaiming more yard from the unkempt forest. Mowing afterwards is really gratifying.

The size of this poison ivy makes my skin crawl...

 

[mike0000]

Reclaiming more yard from the unkempt forest. Mowing afterwards is really gratifying.

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The size of this poison ivy makes my skin crawl...

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I’m itching just seeing your pictures of the poison ivy. Be careful with all of it, I’ve heard burning the ivy is a bad idea, but have no experience doing that.

 

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Reclaiming more yard from the unkempt forest. Mowing afterwards is really gratifying.

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The size of this poison ivy makes my skin crawl...

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Yeah but it's so satisfying to rip it down (just stay out of the way lol)
I have similar Tarzan-approved poison oak vines here, we don't have poison ivy - same stuff basically

 

[fc1]

I’m itching just seeing your pictures of the poison ivy. Be careful with all of it, I’ve heard burning the ivy is a bad idea, but have no experience doing that.

Yes, I've also been warned against burning it. I actually have a special brushpile where all the huge ivy pieces go. One pile I know never to burn.

 

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Yes, I've also been warned against burning it. I actually have a special brushpile where all the huge ivy pieces go. One pile I know never to burn.

One year I accidentally had a little bit of poison oak in a burn pile and I was coughing for a couple months after that. Not a productive cough, just one of those "lungs are bothered" type of cough. I can't imagine being in a forest fire full of the stuff...

Poison oak decomposes pretty rapidly and yes I have its own pile as well.

I've found that when it's just dry stems burning doesn't seem like much of a problem; this past spring I burned a decent amount of that. I did keep upwind from it as much as I could anyways but no change in lung status from the occasional face-full of smoke.

 

[cholland]

Tarzan approved. LOL! I have poison oak vines up to two inches in diameter. it's nasty stuff. I do burn it, but only on a hot fire where it goes up quick. I don't really get poison oak rash though, so it doesn't seem to bother me.

Woodland Mills chipper - I have found hardwood branches chip better when still green. Once they dry out, they are a real pain to feed. I try to chip the oak stuff within a week or two of cutting. Otherwise its easier to pile and burn it.