Thats a darn good idea! I have an old homemade splitter i was debating looking at trailers for. Love the idea. I always worry about spinning a bearing or something cracking due to the vibrations.
Funny this came up when it did. Had to use the trailer to bring home a smaller trailer Nested trailers. small trailer just fit too!
You can put one on it. There's the universal ones for about $20, and if you want a custom one, there's this Moose 2" Hitch Receiver - Parts Giant Or this universal type too. Kolpin® ATV 2" Receiver Hitch : Cabela's
Yep, mine stays on the Deere. The mounting job is questionable, but it keeps things level enough that my air filter is no longer swimming in 10w30.
Hauled another load today. That's pretty much all the wood I have at my buddy's house. My wife and I stacked this all by the house on the patio. I've got a good half cord of split beech at my land that I need to get, as well as about a face cord of shagbark hickory that I need to split. If you look at the back of the trailer, you'll see a few 4x6's that are just under 4' long. Those are repurposed blocks that my buddy gets from work. They could be chunked up and burned, but these few I brought home are coated in paint and or oil. I'm going to try and stack my wood from this past winter that I got as tree service freebies. Those will eventually go into my wood shed that I wanted to get done this fall. Here's the stack of extra 4x6s. I'll do some work hauling and stacking tomorrow.
Mostly beech, a couple pieces of cherry. I have a lot of beech. More to get too, along with sugar maple, elm, cherry, and ironwood. I have a good bit shagbark too, but none are needing harvesting. There's also some ash that I will give to my buddy in exchange for 3 yr seasoned red oak.
Worked some more today. Mostly at moving the wood service freebies stack from in my driveway to down where my wood shed will be, eventually. I took 2 loads from the driveway stack made into new stacks by the shed, and also took a few wheelbarrow loads to the patio stack, and into the house. Dad's Ariens GT doing the hard work. My buddy gave me a big trucker tarp, and I put it on the stacks I made below. That'll do. I ran out of daylight to take pics of the new stacks, but I'm keeping the wood separated into the elm and maple, and then the honey locust.
My mom helped me move and restack a couple of loads of firewood from my tree service freebies down by the shed. There's enough snow to say it snowed, but not enough to slow me down. The first load was all Norway maple and elm, and I was able to take a decent load down to stack and not have any tire spinning or slippage. The second load was all honey locust, filled the same, or maybe a little more. I had traction problems. That locust is heavy.
Ok, here's an update on this wood stack movement. I worked a little today, but also a few days in between my last post. I did a MM reading on a piece of the tree service elm, and it said it was good. No more than 19% on 3 resplits. That wasn't fun with the maul. The Quadrafire agrees. So I've been moving the ugly chunks into the garage and into the stove. It works out as I didn't want to stack the uglies anyway, and the stove is closer than the stacks. That elm wasn't green when it was given to me. I'll see if I can find my mm readings after splitting it last winter. Here's where I sit so far. 5 pallets full, with a 6th being worked on. Each stack is 5' tall so far. So over a 1/2 cord per pallet. ( .62 if each one is 5 feet). So this stack will be nearly 4 cords by the time it's done.
You are making me tired & sore just looking at the tons of wood you’ve moved the past few days Whew ! Your neighbors predict a severe winter with all the wood you’ve got stacked
Moved a few more sled loads today to the stacks, and a few wheelbarrow loads of pine to my patio stack. We only have an inch or so of snow, but it's enough to use the sled. The lower stacks block my neglected overgrown garden from my neighbor's view. There were lilacs, sumacs, a plum tree and other shrubs acting as a barrier, but the utilities cut all that down. To the left of these stacks it's where the imaginary wood shed will go. Lol I'm really digging the fiskars hookaroon my wife gave me for Christmas. It saves me from bending over to pick up splits.
Ahhhh. I cleared all the wood from my driveway. My wife wanted it moved. So I obliged. There's a few random pieces. The honey locust branch stubs are going to be used as wheel chocks for my boat trailer. They are perfect for that. I also have to sweep and get the splitter chaff before it takes out a shear pin on my snow blower. Here's where most of it went. 7 stacks Once I put the shagbark branch pieces on the top on the short stack closest to the shed, it should be level with the rest of the stacks. That would be 4.3 cords. Or essentially a year of firewood all for next year, 18-19 heating season.
Rather than do a new thread, I think I’ll jump on the wood pile here. My temperamental 372 fired up today so off I went Cut up a dead fall maple in my calf weaning lot, then a hickory that attacked my fence, worked on some storm downed later. It’s nice when all you the equipment is working. I placed a dime by the front tire for scale!
The odd wood stack is my first attempt at a holz hausen. I went by memory of my research lasy year. I forgot to lay proper foundaton of the first layer and didn't lay the cross beams until near the end, rather than during the first three feet. What is good about the round house is you can thought all your uglies in the center. Most of the inside is fresh cut heavy maple. One more mule load in the center will give t a mound shape. I will then shingle it with the ends of spilts where i removed a layer including the bark. No need to tarp is needed Kind of fun getting in touch with my Swiss-German roots and building one. They are common on in the Ohio River area of Indiana, where my family tree farm is. Some of the Swiss influence lingers.
