Getting The Years Firewood In

Well after a spring with daily cancer treatments and then heart attacks, I'm finally well enough to go cut my wood. I burned 14 full cord last year and need to replace it.
The daughter and her bow drove here last Wed. from Ohio to help me thru Friday. We blocked, split, loaded and stacked 5 PU loads before they went on to Lake Placid for some vacation time.
Sat I went up and blocked about 3 cord of wood at one of my landings in the woods and yesterday I took my 440 and the farm's dump trailer up and split blocks and loaded up a 1-1/2 cord load of wood, It pretty well tuckered me out, but it's fun using my home built splitter elevator combination. no more bending over to pick up all the split wood. The big blocks, I pick up onto the splitter with the gin pole and grapple. I also use the ginpole to drag the logs out of the pile at the landings. My Cat-I shop built 3pt skidding arch works real well on the Kubota B2150. The rig is very nimble in the woods, and the #2500 HF winch with remote works great. I have an older #2000 on the gin pole on the splitter. There are quick tach jaws on the arch so the blade and the splitter interchange easily on it.
Loren, the Acg.

Lookin good! Looks like the loader works good. Be careful up there alone tho!

good lookin operation u have

Loren ,
That little set up you got looks like the cats meow ..... I see what you mean you don't have to pick-up the split wood ... heck it's in the wagon ... VERY nice set up ....

THANKS for sharing ... TAKE CARE of yourself ........... mark

Jon,
I can't push too hard, as things go a bit haywire if I do. It took me 4.5 hrs to split wood and load the dump trailer. Had to take several breaks to keep hydrated and get the heart slowed down. I carry my cell phone and nitro pills and give Beth a call every couple of hrs to let her know that it isn't time to call my insurance co and cash in on my life insurance. HeHe.
The elevator does bridge and build up at the bottom some, but I think I have designed a cure for that in my mind. Just need a rainy day to weld up the fix.
Talk to you soon.
Loren

thats really great,,wow!!!! I wish the wife and I could take a road trip to stop by and see you and NY state,but her mom is needing help now.

I don't know why someone will post all these picture. I have wifi but can't set here long enough to down load all this stuff. Maybe I have the wrong internet service?????

Loren, looks like the equipment is working the way it was designed to. Don't over do the work part . Bill

Looks good Loren, the weather has been awful for any outdoor work, hot and humid, take care of yourself and thanks for posting the great pics, but I like your snow pics and maple syrup time pics better!!!! Lol hehe

Loren.
MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE, glad you feel better ,but just GO SLOW!!!
Some time next couple of months, we will start our 10+ cord of winters wood. Real nice pictures and I'm sure your thankfull for the help you are getting.
Regards LOU.

Perfect, the contrast of the 440 looks nice in the woods. Great set up to work off a landing, keeps the wood off the ground and you had some assistance to boot. Should be some cooler/drier air coming in, really like those kinds of days, spring and fall for this work.

did you build that outfit ?? looks good........JIM

The splitter frame is a 1977 comercially built splitter that you had to crawl around on your hands and knees to use. I converted it to 3pt, added all the trays, built the gin pole and fabed up the sheet metal. I now operate it at waist heidth. The sheet metal covers a large tool box and a group 31 battery to power the winch on the gin pole.
The elevator is made from Kubota shipping crates and powered by a hyd motor coupled the the splitting cylinder. It only runs when the cylinder retracts and bottoms out, and I hold the lever. There is a oneway check valve in the curcuit on the power side to prevent the elevator from running backwards when splitting a block. I also built the cab and adapted a Myers snow plow frame to fit the tractor, plus the front 3pt hitch on it.
Now I need to build a stacking system !!!!
Loren

Glad to see you're back at it! As others have said take it easy.
Looks like you had some great help
I enjoy your post and look forward to more
I snapped a couple pictures of my firewood set up.
hope you don't mind... HeHeHe
Now if only I was half the craftsmen you are. The precision and refinement in YOUR work is incredible.

I think your the hardest working guy on the board! From all the Maple Syrup in the late winter to the commercial firewood operation in the late summer, you are on the go all the time! And your fabrication and craftsmanship are very professional. I'm envious of your talent and energy! True Son

(reply to post at 20:44:15 08/24/15) "[b:d63b368d42]Well after a spring with daily cancer treatments and then heart attacks[/b:d63b368d42], I'm finally well enough to go cut my wood. I burned 14 full cord last year and need to replace it.

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Wow, that's a load of work! Glad to hear you're well enough to do it. Guy who sits next to me at work is a cancer survivor, takes lots of meds, has diabetes, low iron, you name it. I showed him your post and called him a slacker. :wink: He just laughed, said he got tired just [u:d63b368d42][b:d63b368d42]looking [/b:d63b368d42][/u:d63b368d42]at your pix.

What are you heating with all that wood?

That is a really unique set up you have there. looks like we think alike with the gin pole set up. Is that a 310B or a 540 tractor. I have 2 440s. The newer one in the pic.
Loren