KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
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I have 2 super dutys. F250 and F350 Dually. Dont put them in the mud. Pavement, frozen ground or completely dry ground. If you put them in the mud you will be stuck. They are way too heavy. My dually weighs 7,100lbs empty.
Yes and I don’t know why anyone would want use one of those beasts as a daily driver, get the wife to drop off the kids at school and buy a loaf of bread. For those that are towing huge loads of scrounge that’s different!
Not if you hang out with bigger trucks.
KiwiBro's theory of relativity.
No offense taken my friend .Sorry Chipper I’ve lost track of what stove everyone has, thought you were a OWB guy or I’m just mixing up my Cantoos, Chippers and Dancans...... Okay Dancan and his old van can’t be confused with anyone else!
Got my new weed wacker today.
My neighbor has a similar fork setup. He made a hydraulic arm on top to hold the logs on the forks. Don't have to run back and forth as much while cutting.Kiwi, the wings are about 8" so they do kind of sit there but it's easy to slide them back into position for resplits. I manually lift the rounds as it's quicker than the loader. I push up the rounds with the forks. I welded a couple of braces into the back of the fork frame and with the third fork they push up pretty high. I could push them high but like you say they would then tumble down on me. If you look at the 1st set of pictures of the forks you can see the 4" wide brace at the bottom that I welded in behind the quick attach plate.
When loading logs onto the forks I always put a smaller one on first against the frame then bigger ones until 4 or 5 fill the forks. I set the forks at a nice cutting height and with the forks tilted so the logs almost roll off on their own. I grab the paint and my marker rod and mark everything, set them back down and I grab the saw and cut 2 rounds staring from the tractor side and then I go to the front and cut almost all the way thru each 16" mark along the 1st log at the end of the forks while walking to the other end. I then cut 2 rounds off each of the logs one at a time at that end, this balances the shorter logs on the 3 forks. I then cut each log completely until I get to the smaller log which is against the It is the thickness of the forks away from the frame so I can cut it all without hitting the steel frame.I sometimes use the saw dogs to hold the logs from sliding as I cut them.I sometimes use the saw chain to pull/ roll this log ahead as I cut so I don't hit the frame. If the forks are tipped right it works pretty well. I should have my wife do some videos sometime as it would explain things better.
Often I'll split the 8~9" pieces one time if they're about 16" across. It's stiil the right size for burning.16" is the norm. 4'x8'x16" makes a rick of firewood. You could always make the leftover 8-9" pieces into kindling.
It ain't no mini van!Well , it belongs to one of my customers , he offered it but I told him I needed to drive it to see if it would fit .
My wallet isn't fat enough for it lol
Too much to run , too much at the tolls , too much for tires , too much real estate to turn around ,,, I could go on .
It was kinda nice to push any button in the truck and everything worked , I guess I'll continue to beat up my old Ef2fiddy
Whenever possible I try to split right out of the trailer. It makes it nice as they are already half way there. I'll try to get a couple pictures today of how I set up. It may be a little different today because of the snow being piled hp where my trailer was which is where I'm now splitting into the pile at.Thanks for that. Made sense too. The rounds here are often too heavy for me to be lifting them to the splitter table manually. I've been going back and forth on whether or not to have some sort of bucking table on a slight incline to dump logs onto and keep the rounds at that same height without the need to manually or tractor lift them back up to splitter height. Still trying to work that one out. In my case, everything is complicated by the need to stay as portable and mobile as possible. A perpetual work in progress ;-)
A member here and a friend has a setup like that, I think in the past he had some pictures of it in here.My neighbor has a similar fork setup. He made a hydraulic arm on top to hold the logs on the forks. Don't have to run back and forth as much while cutting.
Yours is definitely a production setup. I could do a whole winters worth in an afternoon!
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If it makes you feel any better, since you missed it, it’s not just any metal, nothing soft like lead or copper, it’s steel. Specifically Iron. Just like the blood veins in your arm look blue, that’s because of the iron in your blood. I’ve seen it run ten, twelve feet up from the actual piece. Try taking a saw log to the mill with that stain on the stump cut. When I was a kid the company my Dad worked for did the tree work at Mount Vernon. We took down a giant Oak with blue stain in it. Dad let me split it on the job to see what it was. It was a hand forged spike with hand forged chain on it. The grounds keeper told us George Washington tied slaves under that tree to get them out of the noon day sun. I still have the spike and chain with a piece of wood on it. But, no way to prove where it came from. It could have been there to tie up horses for all we know.We had another school district snow day today. Had the chance to split a little of the red oak before it got super slippery out. What’s up with the black in this round??
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