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One man firewood harvest the lazy mans way.

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Adirondack case guy

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I'm too old to bull and lift on logs, blocks etc. to harvest my firewood. Last year I burned a bit over 12 cord to heat our entire house and m new tractor shop.
Over the last couple of years, Y have modified my splitter to be 3pt mtd, built a gin pole for it, with a now remote controled winch, and a grapple to lift heavy blocks and winch logs to be blocked out of piles at landings. Also built a 3pt log arch for my Kubota B2150 to skid logs to the landings. The impact on the woods from harvesting is minimal with the Kubota with the winch on the arch, and short skids to small lamdings along the roads in the woods. The one pic. of the saw shows my length of cut giude, I cut 20" wood.
Loren, the Acg.
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Takes me back to my days of doing almost the same thing before I quit burning wood. I used the 9N to get the splitter and wagon back into the woods. Had a hydraulic motor/chain reduction and 150' of 1/4" cable on the spool. I could cut a tree, limb it and drag it to the splitter and if too big , use the cable to get it in the bed of the splitter. Biggest thing I ever split was an oak tree way back in "84 that blew over when Mama and Daddy were there. It was 54" across the stump and at the time we used my cousin's 5000 Ford w/front end loader to get the blocks in the splitter!! Three pieces of that would fill a pickup bed up!! Haven't burned wood since Oct. 2000 when we moved into Mama's place and been using oil. My back doesn't miss it and working 50-53 hours a week doesn't leave a lot of time otherwise. You've got a nice operation there!!
 
Anything one can do to keep from working on ground and reduce labor on oneself, makes it so much more tolerable. Cool to see how you get it done ! Wheres the Chebby firwood getter, looks like a mopar product doing the work now !

I'm curious about your log arch plans, how do you plan to build it ? One of those would be ideal here, with the long tow, through 2 streams etc.
 
Way to much work and equipment involved to my liking.
If i had to do it that way i would not have time for anything else the whole summer..

Cheaper to go nat gas and spend the time saved to go fish ;)
 
Very nice, Loren. Built a very similar arch for my B2150--they're a handy little tractor. Ain't gonna replace a skidder, but for smallish logs it's just the ticket. Was using it today for leveling up some old railroad ties I'm using to shore up a building. Put a chain loop around the tie, lift the 3-point until it's where you want it, then backfill. Sure easier than playing gandy dancer, particularly when there's only one of me--kinda hard to lift and backfill at the same time!
 
Loren.. How close are the front tires you now have on the B 2150 to what was the original turf? Just wondering , we fight that tire swapping thing all the time. Folks don,t pay attention and just stick something on there that is way out of syc and then they have front diff. problems. Those look like they would do better for what you are doing than conventional turf.
 
Dont you have a mini excavator? Put a hydraulic thump on it! Now that is slick. I just pick up the entire log and hold it 3 ft off the ground. Then I hop out fire up the saw and cut it to length. Easy as can be!
 
Nice photos ACG.
My dad told of some lazy neighbors they had when he was growing up.
They cut a hole in the front door and would feed the whole log through it into the wood stove.
Pack gunny sacks around the hole/log to keep the wind out and keep sliding it into the house as it burned shorter.
 
(quoted from post at 21:55:11 08/19/14) Way to much work and equipment involved to my liking.
If i had to do it that way i would not have time for anything else the whole summer..

[b:77009418d8]Cheaper to go nat gas and spend the time saved to go fish [/b:77009418d8];)
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Not if access to natural gas is not a choice.
 
They are not a perfect match, but close. I blow the front tires up hard, and keep the rears soft. It is fine on grass and dirt, but it binds a bit on black top. I never road it in 4wd.
Loren
 
Mostly maple and ash. Also a fare amount of cherry, and an ocasional beach. I only cut trees that are dieing, or have had the tops broken out of them from wind and ice.
Loren
 
Tim,
The arch that I built has a short chain with a choker ring on the end of it. One end is fastened to the drawbar so when you lower the 3pt the choker chain extends out. When raising, the chain feeds over a round slide at the top of the arch and doubles the height that I can lift things.
Loren
 
Lazy????
I don't think so. Just smarter. It looks like you've had some time in making the clever tools you have to handle the wood.

I can't believe you are using the kubota instead of the Cases though. haha
 
Good idea, Loren--mine is fixed, though I put a couple different hooks on the grapple riser so I can either use different sized chains or hook more than one log at once. The limiting factor with my setup is usually traction--I've still got turf tires on mine, which were what it had when I bought it, and even though they're loaded I run out of traction long before I run out of power. Not usually a big deal--I have better options if I'm doing heavy pulling anyway, and this way is easier on the equipment.
 
That's a pretty cool setup. I like the arch/choker setup you describe. you thought it through before putting it together. :)

Do you split the wood when it's "green" ? Or, how long dead are the trees by the time you split them?
 
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