Loader Transporting Chainsaw, gas, etc & firewood to & from???

[JB4310]

Guys,

I am looking for ideas here.

I have a ton of downed timber I am harvesting for 2 reasons, Fire wood and Fence posts.

I am keeping all straight 7' long 4" minimum width for fence posts, the rest is fire wood.

So how do I manage to carry my chain saws, etc. to and from wherever I am cutting (mostly from, when the bucket/grapple is full of wood, where do i put the saw & stuff)?

Thanks in advance,
David

Well sounds like you will be doing this on a regular/long term basis, so IMO you will definitely need forks (oops, I see you have a grapple, That Works :thumbsup and you need a ballast box or other heavy implement on the 3pt.

I Would go with a customized (for your needs) ballast box. With tool holders etc. I don't need to carry a saw that often or else I would of made a dedicated saw scabbard like some of the excellent examples shown already.

Done right, you could carry all you need on the 3pt with the ballast you need.

My small saw fits a 3 inch pvc pipe, but I would go with steel if I did it again, so there would be no chance of breaking the plastic from catching a long handle tool on something. Steel would not be good for the saw though.

If you are going to have a quick hitch, you can add some mods to that as well.

2 inch receivers tubes are so handy, you can add and remove special accessories/ tool holders as you need them. You can put them just about anywhere you can think of, buckets or any 3pt implement etc.

JB

 

[creekbend]

Posted earlier to perhaps help Mossflower Woods{1}Homemade trailer made from full size dodge pickup bed {2} receiver hitch with 2 inch ball {3} large toolbox on front frame of trailer--used to store chainsaw, logging chains, oil, gasoline, files,various other necessities;etc {4} and some tractors already have a FEL. Not expensive at all--pretty simple and everything is there for your convenience and mostly kept in a manner that is easy to unload. All of us members are here for the sole purpose to help each other. We are related in a way with regards to our association with tractors and farming.Happy Tractoring.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

2 inch receivers tubes are so handy, you can add and remove special accessories/ tool holders as you need them. You can put them just about anywhere you can think of, buckets or any 3pt implement etc.

JB

I really like your bucket mods with the 2" reciever and the rack ful of tools!

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Do yourself a favor and buy treated fence post....The ones we put in are good for 30 years. Why are you messing with something that going to last maybe 7 years or less? That is a blink in the eye.

I noticed guys on all your threads are talking you into buying a crap load of equipment you don't need. Easy to spend someone else's money I guess. Guys are telling you to buy all kinds of expensive logging equipment and farm attachments. They are spending your money like gov't burecrats. One guy was telling you to buy an expensive gadget to pick up logs...buy a $50 set of logging chains and drag the darn things out of the way

You are buying a bunch of $$$ crap you don't need but skimp on the fence-which is hard manual labor to put in and it takes coniderable amount of time. Spend the money right, plan your fence and do the fence job right the first time. You have 50 acres to take care of.

You don't have the time(and wait until your energy level drops off) to do jobs twice...you will find that out. Wait until the luster of taking care of 50 acres wears off....

Sweep,

You very well may be right. But I already signed the loan papers.

As for the using my own wood for posts, I got the idea from a builder who did it athis own place, and has done it often.

The plan is to "treat" the ends in the ground so they last longer. Right now everything I'm doing is temporary and will need to be changed if the economy recovers and I can sell my rentals and build a new house up on the ridge.

I'm trying to get the horses in before my daughter leaves for college. Maybe I'm being an idiot, but I gotta try.

I will look into the fence posts again as I get closer. I am considering doing much of it with metal and wire now.

We shall see, what we shall see.

Hopefully all of this work keeps me healthy and active. Silly me, but it seems like it will be fun.

I do appreciate the advice sir.
Be well,
David

 

[TripleR]

Sweep,

You very well may be right. But I already signed the loan papers.

As for the using my own wood for posts, I got the idea from a builder who did it athis own place, and has done it often.

The plan is to "treat" the ends in the ground so they last longer. Right now everything I'm doing is temporary and will need to be changed if the economy recovers and I can sell my rentals and build a new house up on the ridge.

I'm trying to get the horses in before my daughter leaves for college. Maybe I'm being an idiot, but I gotta try.

I will look into the fence posts again as I get closer. I am considering doing much of it with metal and wire now.

We shall see, what we shall see.

Hopefully all of this work keeps me healthy and active. Silly me, but it seems like it will be fun.

I do appreciate the advice sir.
Be well,
David

Having spent more hours than I care to recall building fences and replacing fence posts, we now only use T posts. I still have a couple of treated posts that have rotted off to replace, but it they will be replaced with metal.

I do use treated posts to hold my back stop, but for everything else, we use metal. Well, we do have a decorative fence at another farm made of some sort of plastic, but it is just for looks.

It will be fun, a lot of work, but there is absolutely nothing like having your own land. I lived in a city four hundred miles from our farms for a bit and had to share space at public places to just play ball with my son and compete with other motorcyclists for a place to ride in the dirt and then only on marked trails with a lot of rules and no way could I find a decent place to shoot.

I can now walk out my back door and fire off a few rounds any time I want to or hop on my ATV or Rhino and go for a ride or go down to the barn and grab a tractor to do a bit of work. I can also sit by my window and watch deer and turkey in my back yard; nothing like living in the country or at least having access to your own property.:thumbsup:

 

[MossflowerWoods]

It will be fun, a lot of work, but there is absolutely nothing like having your own land. I lived in a city four hundred miles from our farms for a bit and had to share space at public places to just play ball with my son and compete with other motorcyclists for a place to ride in the dirt and then only on marked trails with a lot of rules and no way could I find a decent place to shoot.

I can now walk out my back door and fire off a few rounds any time I want to or hop on my ATV or Rhino and go for a ride or go down to the barn and grab a tractor to do a bit of work. I can also sit by my window and watch deer and turkey in my back yard; nothing like living in the country or at least having access to your own property.:thumbsup:

AMEN Brother RRR.

Amen.

We came out here for 2 week in March just to see and we never went back and started moving from our giant house in town to a tiny broken modular. we have no space inside the house, but the 51 acres is GLORIOUS.

I have tried to literally walk every inch of this land. deep in the puckey brush, out in the swampy birch bog along the branch that feeds my big pond, and all over. I feel a need to steward and care for this land. All of these trees are both my crop and my babies.

I love this place and so do my kids.

Be well.
David

 

[Gordon Gould]

LD1,

I am using hardwoods. The plan is to dip them in a tar/sealant mixture, let them dry and then put them in the ground. People around me say this is good for 7-10 years. I will be making changes within that time i expect.


David

Reminds me of a funny story. In 1970, when I was a little younger, I put up a wooden horse fence. I got some nice cedar posts and 2X6. I worked building houses so foundation coating was easy and cheap to comeby. I dipped the posts in it, let them dry, then put up my fence. It was nice. After a couple years the posts started to break off at the ground level. I discovered that the foundation coating worked perfectly .. only backwards. Any water that wicked down into the bottom of the posts, where they were coated, was trapped there by the coating. All the bottoms were like a sopping wet sponge and just about as strong. The coating acted like a skin and held the water in.
It's seems funny now but it didn't back then. I would have been better off without any coating.

I'm not saying don't do what you said. Just don't use foundation coating. :laughing: