Back to making firewood

The heat has dissipated a bit after a really hot July. All the 1st. and 2nd. cut hay has been harvested, and oats and straw are all harvested and baled and I have my helper back for this week, before 3rd cut hay beggins, and beans are ready. We have been getting lots of afternoon T storms so it has been a bit slow going. Storm yesterday was pretty strong. Some really strong winds that took down some trees and knocked down some of the beans. My cousin and Dustin managed to finish baling the oat straw and got the wagons under cover before the storm hit. I recorded 2.34" of rain in the time it took to pass plus some hail
Dustin and I made a load last week in smaller trailer (about 1-1/4 cord), and today we filled the big trailer with a bit over 1-1/2 cord. It is supposed to rain again tomorrow and Wed. so we will unload and stack what we processed today in the woodshed tomorrow, weather permitting.----I do all my skidding in the woods with my Kubota B2150 equipped with loader and shop built 3pt skidding arch. It gets in between the trees well and leaves very little collateral damage. Things go pretty quickly when the logs are blocked and Dustin just has to set them on or roll the heavy blocks to lifting tray on my shop built splitter and elevator.




I have built swing out tool racks onto the sides of my processor tractor to carry everything we need when processing wood, including places to hold saws, and splitter fuel and food and drink for ourselves.





Todays load with the bigger trailer and my 831C.





The lifting tray can be mounted on either side of the splitter and folds up over the splitter for transport. I recently built a stabilizer leg assy. that I can adjust to support the splitter rather than just suspending it on the 3pt of the tractor and that also folds up by removing one pin and folding the legs up and putting the pin back into a transport position.You may have also noticed the comfy seat in the earlier pics. I don't always have Dustin's help, so when he is not here my wife comes up and runs the splitter and elevator for me while I gather up and split the blocks. Elevator is powered by the splitter only when the cylinder returns to retracted position. Just a single spool valve and elevator does not have to run constantly. The elevator gets hooked to a hitch on the back of splitter for transport.





Loren

That young man starts processing and selling firewood he will have his college paid for when its time,
not to count the good times with you and no need for gym membership.

Loren, great photos as always, like those tool racks you built, sure beats carrying a chain saw on your knee to and from the woodlot.

Your splitter is like a Swiss Army knife. You come up with some interesting innovations.

I have been processing firewood lately too, I don't like doing it when it's this hot, but last year it started raining in September and never quit. I have a lot of big black ash that blew down 2 months ago in swampy areas, I can get it out now, but not if it rains a lot.

radio dj said one morning looks like we are for a rough winter the old Indian said to his wife I guess I better cut some more wood.
this went on for several days. one day on his way to radio station the Indian was walking across his drive the dj stopped and said Chief way are cutting so much wood? I 've never saw you have such a big wood pile. are you looking at squirrel nest ducks nd geese flying fish deeper in the pond.
Chief said every morning my wife and I listen to you on radio when we have our bacon, eggs toast and coffee.
then we hear you say we could be in a rough winter so I say to her I guess I better cut more wood.

You are "the fabrication KING"!!!

A very nice setup! I'm jealous.....

Sean; I doubt that. Evert Tom, Dick, and Harry sells firewood at roadside around here, and there are several loggers who have large firewood processors in their log yards, and sell in all sizes of loads from you fill your own truck, to them delivering tandem dump truck loads. You don't get much pie when you slice it into 20 pieces.-----------Loren

I had almost forgot how much I liked that 430!