Adirondack case guy
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Ther are lots of windfalls in the woods this year. I went up back in April for a couple of hours and drug all the trees and limbs that had fallen into the hay fields back to a landing just inside the woods.
Started in earnest back on Monday and Tuesday, and cut and skidded roughly 14cord 1,800 cu.ft of firewood logs to 2 landing in the woods. It rained Wed. so I did other things here in the shop that day.
The Kubota B2150 never ceases to amaze me how easily it skids the biggest logs out of tight spots with the 3pt. skidding arch that I built for it. I have tool racks on it and the arch to carry every thing from the 2 saws to my felling bar, choker poker, pickeroon, to gas, bar oil, and my lunch bag. Getting the firewood logs and limbs to the landings is Phase I.
Phase II is blocking the logs at the landing. To do this, I have equipped my Case 431T with lots of accessories. Built the 2 post canopy and grill guard for it this past winter. Also built fold out tool carriers from some cultivator brackets that I had to carry my saws, cant hooks, log lifter, and again my gas, bar oil, and lunch bag. The 3pt splitter has been highly modified with a Jib pole and winch to pull logs out of the piles that I push up with the Kubota and loader at the landings. The Jib pole makes blocking wood an easy chore, as it drags and lifts the logs up closer to the road and up onto previous cut blocks to keep the saws out of the dirt. I also built a grapple for the jib to pick the heavy blocks onto the splitter bed. The seat and adjacent sheet metal also makes a convient lunch counter. HeHe. The "Limb Dog" I built, that slides on the tail of the splitter also worked as I hoped it would. It hold limbs up to 6" in diameter at waist height to block them up.
I mounted a vice on the RH tool frame to make sharpening easy. I broke down and paid the price for one of those Sthil 3 way sharpeners, and after using it, I highly recommend it.
I did not split any of the blocks, as that is Phase III. The hydraulic driven elevator gets coupled to the splitter for that phase and the split wood drops into that, and is elevated directly into the wood trailers-no bending and lifting split wood off the ground.
I figure that I blocked about 4 cord of wood today. about a 1/3rd of the logs at this landing To some this may not sound like much, but I am a one man band, and 71 year young so I take a few breaks during the 5 hrs. I was up there. Temps were in low 60s today with a lot of wind. Not a good day to be felling trees, but nice in the woods to block up what I have at the landings.
Loren
Started in earnest back on Monday and Tuesday, and cut and skidded roughly 14cord 1,800 cu.ft of firewood logs to 2 landing in the woods. It rained Wed. so I did other things here in the shop that day.
The Kubota B2150 never ceases to amaze me how easily it skids the biggest logs out of tight spots with the 3pt. skidding arch that I built for it. I have tool racks on it and the arch to carry every thing from the 2 saws to my felling bar, choker poker, pickeroon, to gas, bar oil, and my lunch bag. Getting the firewood logs and limbs to the landings is Phase I.
Phase II is blocking the logs at the landing. To do this, I have equipped my Case 431T with lots of accessories. Built the 2 post canopy and grill guard for it this past winter. Also built fold out tool carriers from some cultivator brackets that I had to carry my saws, cant hooks, log lifter, and again my gas, bar oil, and lunch bag. The 3pt splitter has been highly modified with a Jib pole and winch to pull logs out of the piles that I push up with the Kubota and loader at the landings. The Jib pole makes blocking wood an easy chore, as it drags and lifts the logs up closer to the road and up onto previous cut blocks to keep the saws out of the dirt. I also built a grapple for the jib to pick the heavy blocks onto the splitter bed. The seat and adjacent sheet metal also makes a convient lunch counter. HeHe. The "Limb Dog" I built, that slides on the tail of the splitter also worked as I hoped it would. It hold limbs up to 6" in diameter at waist height to block them up.
I mounted a vice on the RH tool frame to make sharpening easy. I broke down and paid the price for one of those Sthil 3 way sharpeners, and after using it, I highly recommend it.
I did not split any of the blocks, as that is Phase III. The hydraulic driven elevator gets coupled to the splitter for that phase and the split wood drops into that, and is elevated directly into the wood trailers-no bending and lifting split wood off the ground.
I figure that I blocked about 4 cord of wood today. about a 1/3rd of the logs at this landing To some this may not sound like much, but I am a one man band, and 71 year young so I take a few breaks during the 5 hrs. I was up there. Temps were in low 60s today with a lot of wind. Not a good day to be felling trees, but nice in the woods to block up what I have at the landings.
Loren
