After dealing all winter with a barebones setup of me, saw, yardworks 6 ton electric and stacking in my driveway, things are picking up! I have a partner now, a fella that bought some wood from me and we got to jawing about business, and voila. We have just bought a ford 5000 from a fella about 15 minutes away. We needed something that could handle 1/3 cord bags of green wood, this tractor will do that, pretty stout machine! I think we got a pretty good deal on it at $5k Canadian, has no issues other than a few of the old hoses have slight leaks. Our splitfire 2265 should arrive in the next 2 weeks, man I am looking forward to using that! Log Splitter - 2265 North American Made 2-Way Wood Splitters The one thing I was racking my brain over was the best way to get the splits into the bag. Firewood conveyors are expensive, so I figured why not go down instead of up! I think what we will try is dig a 6ft deep hole, box it in so its not sluffing or the tractor doesn't cave it in and put the bag underground. This way a simple slide around 8ft long with 40 degree pitch from splitter to bag ought to work well. What do you guys think? One other thing to work out is the storing of firewood bags, we plan to have 80 filled, they will be stored outside. I do not have a source for that many pallets, but I think what might work is storing them on black tarps. Any water should run off onto the tarps and evaporate and no worries aboout grass and weeds growing into the bottom of the bags and damaging them. Thoughts?
The slide should work and a good idea.. have gravity work for you not against you Make sure to add grates to let debris filter through
Possibly, the ground is pretty sandy here in many places. If we run into that I could punch a hole a few feet from it, make it maybe 6-8 inch deeper throw some gravel in and punch a pipe through to our bag hole. I was planning on building as well a platform for the bottom of the hole out of 4x4s and 3/4 inch plywood.
