I am finally hauling the wood that I cut down this spring in the little valley. I kept saying to myself, "You need to haul that wood up" but it seems that each day would go by with it still sitting beside the garden. I was surprised to see how much fungus was growing on the ends of the wood. I have made four trips so far and there is more. There is also the oak that I cut and the locust. I think some of the locust still needs to be bucked. I am interested in having something to skid the logs out. I am also interested in replacing the carriers with a trailer. The Old Girl looks tired but she runs great. I meant to try and give her some fresh paint this summer but that didn't happen either.
I don't really know. I had several stacks that I burned last winter but did not really know what was in each stack. I just got started burning wood. That is a big round but it is also tulip poplar; still poplar can give out good heat it just does not last as long. I dropped several tulip poplars this spring before I redid the fence around the garden in the little valley. Those were large trees and I was nervous about dropping them; there are some posts on here where I am asking questions about these trees before attempting to drop them. I am relatively new to cutting as well as burning.
Those look like some big ash rounds that have been down a while.:stacke: I like a big round ash. Tractor looks brand new to me...........it has a real big thing ( starter ) to make it whine. I like the air vent modification, great rear rubber, does it have an orchard muffler ? or is cut off ?
I wish they were ash but they are tulip poplar. Actually, those trees would have been good for timber; poplar is a secondary wood in the furniture manufacture. However, a logger is not coming out for a couple of trees. That is a '49 8N tractor that me Dad purchased when I was little; he was proud to own her and I am proud to own her now that Dad is gone. The tractor went to Mum and then from Mum to me. When Dad died people came to Mum thinking she would sell the tractor since Dad was gone. I am not very good at ploughing the way Dad was, he could plough out a row of beans that looked as if you hoed it by hand.
Good work there, ma'am. Time to start splitting! Do you have a splitter rig for that fine piece of Detroit iron?
I have my little SpeeCo 5 ton electric splitter. Maybe one day I can have one of those big monsters that I could haul into the woods; I could cut, buck, split, and haul and then stack.
OK, you lost me there on the muffler. On this model it ran down and under the right running board. The air vent is the standard air vent. They did offer an add-on air filter system. You would unscrew the standard and then the add-on bolted in place of it
The air vent is a different colour because I took it off back when I was working on the tractor. My BIL sandblasted the rust off and then painted it. the whole tractor needs painting. Back when I was going through a bad patch I left the tractor sitting out in the weather year round. I have a new wiring harness to put on her and I hope to replace the head lamps. Dad took them off because they had rusted out rather badly. I want to put originals back on instead of repro.
That is a Harbour Freight steel carrier that I got on one of their offers. I thought about building one from wood like I did on the back. I added that last year; I think I posted about it before. With the load on the rear as it is in the rear carrier, the front was a bit light; that little four cylinder engine is not that heavy even though it is all cast iron. I first went looking for wheel weights; they can be found but with the mass, shipping was more than the weights. So I decided to solve the problem by adding the HF carrier. I could carry more wood and the wood would be the front weight to counter the rear weight. Looking back through posts it was April of 2016: Added front load to tractor
Return of the Jedi ('83).... Han Solo is freed from being frozen in Carbonite....hence, he has hibernation sickness... Not much of a Star Wars fan, eh? Here's the freeze scene, from "The Empire Strikes Back" And when the thawing out occurs in "ROTJ" Please don't waste your time dissing the science behind the movies, tho. It will fall upon many deaf ears here at FHC. We all know Sci-Fi when we see it.....well, most of us!
