Progress update on my Case 431T project

I haven't posted an update on building my ultimate firewood machine lately. I have built lots of accessories, and mounting frames to hold everything.
I have Dubbed the tractor , splitter, and elevator the "Wood Pup", which will have some graphics denoting that, when all painted up.
Everything is fastened to a set of cultivator brackets that I had for 4-630 tractors.
Access to the front and engine area of the tractor were priorities. All the tool carriers pivot on the cultivator brackets on the front bolster of the tractor, beside the radiator.
The front sweeps fold back to access the front of radiator, and air cleaner, and the rear wings fold forward and lock to gain access to the engine on each side.
The grill guard slides onto the cultivator receiver, and locks in place.
The LH tool carrier is the food and fuel side. It also has accommodations for a single bit ax, splitting maul, splitting wedge, and my pickaroon. The RH side has wooden scabbards for my two saws, a vice to hold them when sharpening them, and storage for my cant and log lifter cant, plus a crow bar. Each fold out wing has a grab handle to swing it out and also a grab bar when mounting the tractor. I also built floor board extensions and a lower step for this old crow to climb up. They are painted, and done.
The roof, and front and rear bulkheads, are all done and bolted fast along with the lighting package.
Next step is to dismantle all of it and do all the heavy welding on the 2 post with the old stick welder. I just spott welded it up with the mig, but it is not big enough to get the penetration that I need on the main structure.
I also built a tool holder on my 3pt splitter, up on the jib arm to hold a choker chain to pull logs out of the bucked up pile at the landings, a hook to hold my newly made "Screw and Grab", My "manual block lifter", and my "Choker Poker". The big block grapple just sets on the ground when not in use and the winch locks it into the splitter frame for transport.
I also got my "Limb Dog" all painted up and slid in place on the splitter. It is modular and just sildes on the end of the tray of the splitter.
Loren

Loren, looks like everything you need except the kitchen sink.

That?s quite the machine you?ve put together

Ok this is getting to a point. Next project is going to be some of the crazy vehicles for his version of Road Warrior. Next will be Mell Gibson. Lots of fabrication though.

Where is the charger for the robot to run all of that??

Where is the lunch wagon?

Very creative! Ron MN

Dang Loren!----do you ever sleep? Impressed for sure!

Ok I will bite what is the silver thingy with all the points in the last picture.

The lunch wagon is all there. My food and beverage bag is fitted in the rear of the LH swing out, and I can heat the hotdogs on the shield over the muffler on the splitter. The toolbox next to the splitter engine is heated also, so I can keep my homemade soup warm there. I still have to wash my hands in a mud puddle before lunch though. HeHe.
Loren

I think I would be working on the seat before everything else.

The silver thing is my "Limb Dog" It holds limb wood up at waist height so I can block them up without bending over and running the saw tip into the dirt. It will accept up to 8" rounds. The silver lever is built as an eccentric so you just slide the end of a limb in the throat and it locks it down for blocking. When blocked, just pull the handle forward and the last block releases. Bailies has a couple of commercially, built ones. One is free standing, and the other fits into a receiver on a tractor or PU. one of those has to be adjusted for different sized limbs. I figured that if I bent a pipe into an eccentric, it would be a one size fits all, and I can easily slide limbs into the mouth even if you can't reach the handle.
If you follow Wrangler Star's U-Tube channel, He built one for his splitter also. I think the episode was titled " A better way to cut firewood".
The pic is back in Dec. when I was designing and fabing it.
Loren

That's on the list. A pin hole is egged out, and pin is missing. When the 2 post is off, the seat will be real easy to get at, and a larger pin will be installed. I also have to reconfigure the dual remote levers to clear the 2 post.
Loren

On an earlier post, someone called it "the Swiss Knife" of wood splitters. That about summed up my goal for the build.
Loren

I can't see the Original Post. Is anyone else having this issue?

I love the pictures, Loren. Your fabrication skills are top notch.

I have chosen to heat the house with gas forced air and spend my time looking at pictures of other people's projects- much easier to get fat this way.

Looking good. All that's missing are the orchard style fenders. LOL
I just called the steel shop to have some stuff cut for the 500. Gotta go pick it up in a little while.

There is a group 31 battery mounted in the toolbox area of the splitter. It just powers the winch at the moment. HeHe.
Loren

The Swiss Army Knife of tractors.

The ultimate firewood machine. That is some very nice fabrication work. Looks great I look forward to your updates on your projects. Tony

Randy, no orchard, or modified fenders in the plan here. The shells are just fine.
I saw your post over on the Case board with the trailer backed into a ditch to unload tractors. Boy can I tell you tales about those episodes, before we got a tilt bed truck at our dealership, about 1960.
Loren

I can't see the pictures on modern. Can see them on classic though.

Ya,Dad unloaded a few off of the back of my uncles two ton truck by backing it down in the ditch out in front of the house when they'd bring them home from the sale in Archbold.