Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[John_Mc]

I hear that! At 63, I'm not carrying those chains anywhere unless I have to.

I used to keep them in the wooden box they shipped in. Then changed to hanging them on a peg on the wall. I'm a bit slow at times, so it took me a couple of years to realize that lifting them to hang on a peg was more trouble than it was worth. Now, anytime they are not on the tractor, they live on the floor in a corner of the tractor bay of the garage. When I need them, I grab one end and drag them out the door.

 

[LouNY]

I store my chains in a 35 gallon plastic drum. I seldom use the fronts so they are in the bottom, the rears in the top. I lay them into the drum one at a time. When I'm going to mount them I roll the drum into the loader bucket carry it to where I'm going to be working. Then I start lifting the chain out and laying it down on the ground, then I'll pull it out to behind were the tires will be and straighten the chains out, tie on and go.
I got a bit lazy this past winter and worked in a spot on my driveway with some slope to it. Instead of haveing to climb into the cab, release the brake and drive ahead a bit, stop and check and adjust the chains, then repeat several times. I just reached in while standing on the first step and released the parking brake let it roll a bit, stopped, checked, and repeated till they were wrapped all the way around and up to a bit over waist level to start fastening.
At 73 going on 74 it's not a bad job.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^^
I curl my loader to move when puttong on chains or implememts.

 

[IXLR8]

I'm 70, I roll each chain around a piece of PVC pipe. Makes it 'easy' to lift one chain at a time and it keeps the chain fairly well organized. When ready to put chains on the tractor, just roll them out and then use LouNY's method of curling them up on the tractor. I often still have the BackHoe on the tractor so I can lift a wheel off the ground and just rotate the wheel with the chain caught on a lug.

 

[wolc123]

I finished up the last 1/2 face cord that was in my splitter shed today, and stacked that in the front end of my woodshed. If it’s dry enough in my parents woods tomorrow, I’ll fetch another pickup truck load home, and stack it up in the splitter shed.

When I finished that, I bolted the forks under the bucket, clamped on a door, and hauled a few door-loads of apple tree trimmings and yard debris to the big fire-pit. Almost time for our first outside campfire, here at home.

Also, we are having an Easter Sunday sunrise service in the cemetery down at church. We are going to have a campfire back there, so I’m hauling an old tractor rim and a bunch of ash that was too long to fit in my woodstove last winter, over there for that. Not sure if my home campfire will be before or after that one. It depends on the weather.

 

[BackRoad]

Put the chains on after the 2nd time I plowed this winter...and it didn't snow again! It was cold enough, just not the moisture needed.

But we're getting a lot of rain now, just thankful it's 40°!

 

[arrow]

LOL... every tractor is a compromise! Yeah, I have chains for all four corners of the 3033r, and the rear ones are just stupid heavy, 5/16" HD 2-link configuration for 41" tires. I groan just thinking about hoisting them onto the tires.

So, I avoid situations which require me to chain up, as much as possible. But I do have them for those occasions when I need them. The rest of the time, that machine is moving logs on grass, plowing snow on asphalt, or loafing along spreading fertilizer or seed on my lawn. The turf tires work really well for those chores.

The Ford 3000 is a quiet and gentle little beast, but with calcium-filled ag tires, does pretty well for a manual-transmission gasser. It has the less common 4-cylinder configuration.

When I was operating skidders and threw a chain, there was no way l was getting those things back on by myself while in the wood. There was no hoisting these things. One of them weighed 400 lbs. The rings on them were 10” across.
I used to just attach the thrown chain to the skidder with a choaker and drive back to the landing where two or three of us would re-position the chain in order to drive them back on.
We used about a 5’ long cable that had hooks at each end we’d attach to the chain and then loop the cable over the tire, slowly drive forward and pull the chain up and over the tire.
The hardest part was untangling the mess I made of the chain while dragging it home.

 

[arrow]

I hear that! At 63, I'm not carrying those chains anywhere unless I have to.

I used to keep them in the wooden box they shipped in. Then changed to hanging them on a peg on the wall. I'm a bit slow at times, so it took me a couple of years to realize that lifting them to hang on a peg was more trouble than it was worth. Now, anytime they are not on the tractor, they live on the floor in a corner of the tractor bay of the garage. When I need them, I grab one end and drag them out the door.

If ever a chain came off a skidder tire for working on or whatever, the chains were hoisted on a ceiling joist inside the shop with an electric winch.

 

[Gordon Gould]

We used about a 5’ long cable that had hooks at each end we’d attach to the chain and then loop the cable over the tire, slowly drive forward and pull the chain up and over the tire.

That's what I do. My chain rope has a hook (think S-hook) at each end so I don't have to deal with knots.

gg

 

[wolc123]

The new ballast plate on the front of my dad’s JD 770 worked good today.
No more wheelies with a good load of firewood on the 3 point carryall: