New fab Project.--- Firewood elevator.

Adirondack case guy

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Well, way back since when, I have split my fire wood and let it drop off my splitter onto the ground and then picked it back up and loaded it onto the dump trailer or PU truck. This year things will be different!! I went down to a local independent tractor supply store and picked up a weld on hub and sprocket and an idler to string some old scavanged flat hook conveyor chain on to.
I then went down to my friends at R imps. and loaded up a bunch of steel Kubota crates and a couple of discarded 5.70x8 tires, that I will mount on some wheels of of a defuncked Case garden tractor, all, at no charge, The crates will make a nice light weight steel frame for the chasis and elevator bed.
I will put pipe Tees in the splitter cyl. ports and plumb in hyd. hoses and couplings to power the elevator. The cylinder power port will be plumbed with a directional flow check valve so the hyd motor on the evelator won't run backwards when spliting a block and the return port on the cylinder will just be Teed so when I hold the lever back the hyd motor will run and convey the wood to the top of the elevator. The conveyor chain will only run when the spliter control lever is held in the return position.
Last winter I redesigned the Myers snow plow frame to fit my Case 440, and constructed the cab complete with heat, radio and rear facing vidio cam. I also decided to build a quick attach front 3pt hitch so I could mount my splitter on the 440 when the plow was off, rather than on my Kubota B2150 that also has to mow all my lawns. I won't have to keep mounting and dismounting the 60" belly mower deck, between mowing and cutting/splitting wood all summer.
The 3pt skidding arch pictured on the back of the Kubota will also be mounted on the Case 440 when I get a mod 3pt hitch built for the back of it. the 440 was an industrial hwy. mower tractor and never had a 3pt, pto and hydraulics. I added a factory hyd system a couple years back.
Stay tuned as the elevator project progresses.
PS the temp got real nice on the concrete drive by the doors of my shop and woodshed this afternoon.
Loren, the Acg.
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Loren , you have fans as far away as Australia , your work is admirable . I am waiting eagerly to see the finished working machine .
 
Man, I wish I had time for all my projects. Lol, Sorry I had to cut you short on our talk the other day, was trying to get corn in the ground. Got about all finnished yesterday. I'll be watching your build as always too.
 
Just thinking about it makes me sweat, If i had to do that much work and spend money to boot to build and rig up all kinds of equipment to get my firewood cut and transported loaded and stacked i would burn nat gas instead. :)
 
Loren,
I sent you a message through YT about the Springer Inc auction near you. Didn't hear anything back from you. Maybe you missed the message...Email is open.
Thanks
mike
 
I like your raw materials.
I am also at the age where the ground is further away than it once was so anything that saves bending over is top priority. A (kinda fuzzy dark)picture of my elevator build from the scrap pile a few years ago. I dont build wood piles, everything is loaded in to truck or dump trailer and then stacked so it didn't need to be long as some. This is actually #2 build and lessons learned from my #1 attempt are, use a flat belt not chain, build the receiving hopper H-D, drive should be built to stall or slip without breaking something when wood catches, the trough and sides needs to be smooth and free of joints or ledges that catch wood, it doesnt need to run very fast and probably a few more that I forgot. Good luck!
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Got to take my hat off to your equipment fabricating. I do things in simple fashion- but you do a lot more. I load the trailer, take it home, pull the splitter to the back of the trailer, roll the log sections onto the splitter and toss the pieces onto a couple small trailers as they're split, when they're full I stop and stack. Sometimes I pull or push the small trailers to the pile by hand.
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