firewood tractors

[alleyyooper]

Nice hitch.

Al

 

[locochainsaw]

My "firewood tractor", was moving/delivering loads of "big bales" today, with my NEW PJ trailer... 11 bale loads,

I built this hitch for the 3 point out of "scrap" I found in my steel pile, it makes hooking and unhooking trailers in the field, really fast, and will work nicely for loads of firewood too.

SR

What do those bales weigh?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

About 900 each...give or take...

SR

 

[locochainsaw]

About 900 each...give or take...

SR

That's a pretty heavy little pile!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That's a pretty heavy little pile!

With big bales, hay weight starts adding up fast... I managed to deliver the last of it today, here's the last load coming off the field,

SR

 

[locochainsaw]

With big bales, hay weight starts adding up fast... I managed to deliver the last of it today, here's the last load coming off the field,

SR

 

[locochainsaw]

I can only haul 12 on 30ft

 

[711ac]

Rob I bet that middle "finger" on your forks come in handy pushing the bale off the forks. We usually stack a double row, double layer and getting (the forks) out from under the bale on the 2nd layer can be tricky.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You are right!

Sometimes the bales don't want to slide off "easily" because you are up so high, you can't tilt the forks down enough. Then I reverse the grapple and it pushes the bale right off...

SR

 

[dewaldf.carstens]

40B = Perkins diesel whats not to luv

Upgraded to have winch option as well.

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[Ryan'smilling]

Upgraded to have winch option as well.

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Nice setup!! Skidding winches are the cat's meow.

 

[dewaldf.carstens]

Nice setup!! Skidding winches are the cat's meow.

Yes they help an awful lot.

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[dancan]

What make and model winch did you get ?

 

[dewaldf.carstens]

What make and model winch did you get ?

Tajfun 55 with the electro control. Quite nice, when I can get my guys to think what they are doing when hooking up trees.

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[Husqvarnaman92]

Heres my tractor it works great for pulling logs out of the woods

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[alleyyooper]

Nice WD**

Al

 

[dave_dj1]

Picked this gem up Sunday. It runs ok as long as you leave the choke out about 3/4 of the way. It is butt ugly but has new tires on the rear. It has 5 coats of poorly applied paint on it. Loader is tight and works well, it's a Ford 3000, 47 hp 3 cyl gas model with select o speed transmission. I even got a full service manual with it. It will be a work in progress. I'm trying to figure out if I want to convert it to quick attach or just get some clip on forks, i store my wood on half pallets so nothing too heavy.
If you click on the pic you can enlarge it.

 

[Ryan'smilling]

Picked this gem up Sunday. It runs ok as long as you leave the choke out about 3/4 of the way. It is butt ugly but has new tires on the rear. It has 5 coats of poorly applied paint on it. Loader is tight and works well, it's a Ford 3000, 47 hp 3 cyl gas model with select o speed transmission. I even got a full service manual with it. It will be a work in progress. I'm trying to figure out if I want to convert it to quick attach or just get some clip on forks, i store my wood on half pallets so nothing too heavy.
If you click on the pic you can enlarge it.

Congrats on the new machine. I don't know much about the SOS, but I hope it tastes you well. If I ended up with one, I'd want to read up on the dos and don'ts before working it hard. I know they're slick when they work right and a terrible thing to try to fix. Have fun with it, and be safe.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My "firewood tractor" is still hard at work,

With a load all cut up, I pulled it home,

And drove my splitter into place and started splitting the load,

AND it didn't take too long before I ended up with a nice pile of splits!

SR

 

[alleyyooper]

This years fire wood or a start on a future year?
Good way to put the horse to work.

Al