8 cords ain’t all that bad! I’ve got endless amounts of standing dead oak for future use. I hope that at least helps qualify me as a hoarder.
8 cords is a nice stash...and standing dead Oak qualifies as vertical firewood storage...just razzin ya a little.
I can’t walk at the moment and haven’t been able to for a week or so. Otherwise I’d be in the woods cutting.
T.Jeff Veal Stlshrk I have a 25T Speeco splitter with the wedge on the ram. I got tired of trying to pull pieces of wood apart when the wedge didn't go all the way thru. Using a piece of wood as a backer to allow for a full split usually ended up with a backer that would fall apart. I have a friend whose step-son is a logger and he had a bent up stake off one of his logging trailers. My friend cut a couple of pieces of that metal stake about the height of my wedge. We found some angle iron and cut a couple pieces the to match the first metal pieces. I had a spacer between the two channel pieces originally that were bolted together. I kept the space between the two channel pieces far enough apart to allow the front edge of the wedge to fit between them with the ram fully extended. When I finally got around to having it welded up, a place was added to the other side of the angle iron that would allow it to slip over the base of the beam. Here are a bunch of pictures I took of this project. First 4 pics are of the original version that was bolted together. The rest of the pics show it all welded up.
Home made articulating 4 wheel drive Case tractor. My best friend, John too. John Deere is my main firewood tractor. Home made 3 pt logging setup with a 8000 lb hydraulic winch.
Very nice sir. You have some skills. Welcome to the club, lots of great folks here sharing knowledge and humor. What other equipment do you use? Stove, saws, splitter? What's your stacks like, favorite wood? How long have you been burning?
Husky 372 is my main firewood saw, have some Older Saws for backup. Latest addition is a 56 volt Ego chain saw for quick cleanups plenty of power to cut fair size logs as well. Main splitter is a home built vertical with a log lift. Table about 4 ft x 6 foot set at waist height. Case tractor has a vertical splitter as well, smaller cylinder, mostly for in the woods work. Home made wood stove, been using it for about 25 years. Been heating with wood for 45 years, going to be 70 years old soon. Split lots of my wood with a Fiskars splitting axe. Got about 15 to 20 cord ahead most of the time. Vertical splitter pics are construction pics.
Welcome to the club, not only are you gonna like it here, I already like having you here. That little case setup is pretty nifty! Was it a trencher or something in its former life?
Case tractor was just a regular hydraulic drive front steer tractor. Used another Case 2 speed rear end and made an articulated frame to connect them. The Case tractors are hydraulic drive, no belts no drive shafts. Steering is with a hydraulic cylinder. Also has high output and low pressure hydraulic take offs. Rear bed unplugs and a logging arch butt plate slips in with a hydraulic winch. A vertical hydraulic capstan winch is mounted in front of the box bed to haul in small trees etc. The frame also swivels to allow the tires to stay flat on the ground at all times..
Did a few upgrades to the 30 ton Countyline splitter. We plan on only using it horizontal if possible. First, we added angle iron bracing for the log table. Then made leg supports for table and ramps Being able to load up ramps, really speeds up the process Then we had some stringy hickory and elm to process, we added stacks of flat bar to the foot, so blade can go past end of the round. Today, I got a hatchet to chop strings on big rounds, wanted it to be handy. Used a piece of flat stock and a U bolt, made a hanger on the end of the foot.
