Let us know how you like the ebay adapter. I looked at those and ordered one from Titan Attachments. Cost a bit more but is about 40 lbs heavier. Hope things work as well for you as it has for us...
Finished splitting everything but some cookies and a couple 'junk' rounds. I'll bust up the cookies (love burning those chunks) but may not even bother with the other two rounds (all knotty stuff). I have so many 'good' logs waiting to be processed, and already have at least a cord of uglies in bins plus about a cord or more of limb wood waiting in the wings. Pretty much finished this stack off at 1.25 cords. Must be out of practice...the stack is looking wonky. On the plus side, no rounds were launched over the splitter.
Haven't had a chance to do much firewood-related stuff lately but started working on consolidating my log piles to the wood lot over the last several days. I had three decent-sized piles of logs/limbs (mostly red oak) plus some strays in the woods and I was tired of the chaos. I also have six or seven standing white birch that I'll drop and when I get to processing, will do all the birch first for SS wood. If it's too warm (for me) by the time I get everything consolidated then I'll just wait to split until cooler weather. I have roughly eight cords already split and seasoned so I'm good to go for a while. Two of the piles are now stacked in the wood lot and when time (and health) permit, I'll focus on the rest (can't really use the tractor for the rest so that timber will be more time consuming to move). Yeah, I could buck/split stuff where it is, but like I said, I'm tired of the chaos and just want everything in one place; then I can process at my leisure. Pics don't do it justice, there's a lot of timber there with some decent-sized logs that were making the Kioti earn its keep. Small pile of mostly red maple. Not a bad problem to have, like money in the bank. Money shot. Last large pile that I want to move to the wood lot.
A bit more progress this afternoon. Was planning on just moving some of the limb wood as is over to the wood lot and add it to the large pile of limb wood I already have but ended up just bucking it where it was. Kind of a PITA because of the slope but got three trailer loads of limb wood bucked and moved. At least it's a dent in that pile.
You're making good progress up there with your various piles. I hope you can see the productivity and not get bogged down with other piles about. Wood on!
I'd say the top covering tin is not going to blow off with all those full sized cinder blocks on top. Awesome. I use rocks, broken blocks and whatever for weight.
Progress made, well done. Piles are getting moved and getting smaller. Looks great. A little each day goes a long way.
Thanks. Definitely feeling like I'm making some progress, so that feels good. The body, not so much Not sure why I had developed such a blasé attitude towards the log piles stashed around the property but glad to finally be making some forward progress. Splitting that pile of those old 36" rounds was definitely a good motivator and each little bit of progress just pushes me to get more done. The wood won't process itself! Thanks. I guess maybe it's a mental thing. I know what I used to be able to do, so the small amounts I can do now feels like a snail's pace. I just try to keep a positive attitude and remind myself that as long as I can keep doing anything out there, it's a good thing. I started with using whatever I had laying around to weigh down tarps and when I began using the metal roofing, was using pallets to weigh them down. The pallets worked but were too much of a PITA so I switched to the blocks. We'll see how many more years I have left where I can lift them up to the 5'-high stacks. Appreciate it. Seems like I spend more time letting the body recover after doing any work out there than actual processing but things are slowly moving along. Feels good to be getting organized again and chipping away at the processing. Sometimes I just have to remind myself that this is supposed to be fun, and it's not a race or a competition.
Other than some smaller long-dead trees, I never had much red oak in my stacks. Since I was primarily a scrounger, I took what I could get and there never seemed to be any dead and down RO. Thanks to the caterpillar apocalypse of 21-22, once I get through about six cords of CSS maple/birch/ash/beech, I'll be burning primarily RO for the foreseeable future (I already have about 2-1/2 cords of it CSS). You're right in that it splits easily so that's a bonus (I loved beech but man that could be some knotty wood to split). I still haven't played around with the four-way wedge on the new splitter (I still try to 'shape' my splits so I have some for cribbing the ends of the stacks). With so much RO already on hand to process and so many standing dead just waiting in the queue, I think I may eventually give in and try the 4-way just to speed things up a bit.
