firewood tractors

[dancan]

 

[trukn2004]

Mmmmm , a cab with heat

When that blower is wound out, there is no way you would catch me on a open station!

 

[nosurprise87]

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[Sawyer Rob]

I winched/skidded out firewood and sawmill logs this weekend,

I cut out the sawmill logs, setting them aside and then held the firewood logs/tree's over my wagon,

and cut them to firewood lengths...

I still have more to get,

And they are fair sized!

SR

 

[alleyyooper]

Wednesday last week wind do that? I had several standing dead Ash the blew down then.

Al

 

[Sawyer Rob]

A couple of the smaller ones are from the last big wind, but those big tree's that went over, they have been there for a couple years...

There's also a HUGE hard maple over, that I didn't get a pict of, we are going to firewood that whole tree.

SR

 

[Northerner]

Man those rear winch setups sure catch my eye, would love to have one. Pretty pricy though.
Think my mx5000 would do well with one of them.
Would like a front grapple too for cleaning up roots like on this pic.

 

[alleyyooper]

I guess the wind was stronger here on the sun rise side. Last nights new said still a few thousand still without power. As cold as it got all they had to do was clean the fridge and freezer out into card board boxes and set in the garage to stay froze and good.

Al

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It was a pretty nice day today, in the 40's... SO, I went out and loaded some of the blk. cherry saw logs I cut out the other day,

Some of the logs were pretty nice,

I'm now getting a pretty good pile of cherry in the mill yard now, so one of these days I'll have to mill them, and get them on stickeres.

SR

 

[rwoods]

Taking things down a notch or two but some will enjoy the latest additions to my multipurpose three point hitch mount - Brackets to hold the forks after several years of hand toting them and two cat chokers. I can now pull three logs or sections at once, within limits of course. I can use the tongs or chokers independently without having to remove either.

I wish I had invented the cable choker - forget the royalties just the pride of coming up with something so simple and useful would be enough.






Chokers and forks in "stored" positions:




Grabbing an awkward section with the 32" el cheapo tongs:





Ron

 

[711ac]

Still at it when Mother Nature let's me. That's actually about 12-16" of hard enough snow to hold up the tractor (mostly)

 

[dancan]

 

[cantoo]

&11ac, mind saying what kind of rear grapple that is? Doesn't look like any I've seen before. Looks pretty heavy duty. It that a winch setup on it too?

 

[711ac]

That's a home brew rig, or me saving money (not) on a store bought winch and building it myself.
The grapple & rotator is from Bill Thoms, Brownfield Equipment in Maine.

I think I could have gone up one size without getting too heavy. My firewood is all small stems from thinning.
Everything is hydraulic, including the winch. It's a 8k winch and no where the speed of a PTO winch, IIRC just under a foot a second. It works fine for me because if there's not a stump in the way, there's a big rock.

 

[chrisbee]

Did Lucky happily contribute his shoe to the build knowing he wouldn't have to hump out the logs anymore?


Great looking work there by the way, it seems to be built to be very strong. It appears to have multiple attachment points for adjustment?

 

[cantoo]

Wow, that side view sure shows the money sitting there. I built my own simple one for my little Kubota, just uses chain links for the swivel. I really thought about the rotator but for my limited use it works pretty good. They sure save a lot of time and jumping on and off the tractor to hook up chains.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

There's also a HUGE hard maple over, that I didn't get a pict of, we are going to firewood that whole tree.
SR

And we had the chance to work on that maple some,

My friend has a Husky Rancher, it does a pretty good job limbing,

But, when we get into the bigger wood, he runs for my Jonsered 2260! lol Anyway, we got the first load off that maple,

And, we will be back on that tree S N.

SR

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

This is the current state of my tractor. Not in firewood dress at all. She earned her money though.


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Cummins powered Kubota?

 

[trukn2004]

Cummins powered Kubota?

Haha, I got a free sticker with some parts for my truck and chuckled when I put it on. Truck has a matching sticker.

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[711ac]

It appears to have multiple attachment points for adjustment?

Thanks chrisbee, my original idea (without the grapple) was to be able to rotate the "arch" down via the hyd. top link & hitch movement to hitch it high enough to keep most of the log out of the dirt, with the fairly expensive grapple being only a later add on after I could find one to copy & build myself. That blade with the horseshoe rotates up (the reason for the cyl.) and my thought on that was to short chain the log at ground level to the typical chain notches, lift the hitch and then rotate the blade up giving me, iirc about 40" of lift hight.
Bill had his usual display of grapple's, winches, splitters, band mills & processors at the Freyburg Fair that year and Mrs. 711ac more or less said the grapple was a good idea...and that was the end of making it my self story! Although It won't hold as much as the tractor can haul out, grabbing 3 or so stems at a time, in no time, then "dropping" them with out stopping the tractor or getting off makes up for the smaller hitch. It has also proven very useful back at the splitter. With the blade rotated up a little & the arch rolled back some, bucking the log at waist height completely off the ground makes my back happy & the saw chain's sharp. The whole thing really was a lucky "seat of the pants" design, I sure wish I was smart enough to work a simple CAD program that would have shown movement & modeling.