Firewood tractors

stretch5881 · Jun 19, 2018

I've had the privilege of helping a couple of 75 year olds make firewood. Not a lot of money in this operation. Just some scrap iron and a welder.

This one is used just for skidding.

This tractor has forks and a thumb. Great for moving brush piles too.

stretch5881 · Jun 19, 2018

More pics.

stretch5881 · Jun 19, 2018

One more pic. These guys feel this is an important feature. The table end can be slid in and out.

hseII · Jun 19, 2018

XP_Slinger said:
The tongs do pretty good but are useless on lighter logs. I’m still tweaking things a bit, gonna try to keep it simple though. I’d love to find a power grapple that I could rig up to the 3 point

XP_Slinger · Jun 20, 2018

hseII said:

Very nice...yours???

XP_Slinger · Jun 20, 2018

stretch5881 said:
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Beautiful H you’ve got there.

stretch5881 · Jun 20, 2018

The fellow that owns the H bought it for junk price and restored it. He belongs to a tractor club. He uses it to run the splitter, pull wagons home full of firewood and use it to work his garden. He also puts it in tractor shows.

hseII · Jun 21, 2018

XP_Slinger said:
Very nice...yours???

I took a pic of it at the PA GTG.

It has both skid steer QA & 3 point hitch hook ups.

I’m going to build one but like this:

Redfin · Jun 21, 2018

I missed that machine at the gtg.

XP_Slinger · Jun 22, 2018

hseII said:
I took a pic of it at the PA GTG.

It has both skid steer QA & 3 point hitch hook ups.

I’m going to build one but like this:

That’s a great looking set up. I’m going to convert my loader to bobcat QA at some point but I’ve got to get some big house projects done first.

hseII · Jun 22, 2018

Redfin said:
I missed that machine at the gtg.

Nephew,

The Grapple on the crate was at the PA GTG. Wallenstein

The Gehl is owned by a tree Service in VA(?) I think.

Redfin · Jun 22, 2018

hseII said:
Nephew,

The Grapple on the crate was at the PA GTG. Wallenstein

The Gehl is owned by a tree Service in VA(?) I think.

I understood. I was to busy oogling all the other fine iron and missed the grapple. Ive been poking around for my next machine after Im done with the hoe. I do believe a wheel loader will be a contenter.

hseII · Jun 22, 2018

Redfin said:
I understood. I was to busy oogling all the other fine iron and missed the grapple. Ive been poking around for my next machine after Im done with the hoe. I do believe a wheel loader will be a contenter.

A big skid steer, tracked or even on tires, is handy as a shirt pocket.

If I had 2 pieces rather than just the Kubota Tractor, 1 would be a big skid.

Roadfxr · Jun 22, 2018

Redfin said:
I understood. I was to busy poking around with my grapple, Im done with the hoe.

Wait! What??????

Redfin · Jun 22, 2018

This guy^ gets it.

ajschainsaws · Jul 6, 2018

FergusonTO35 said:
Well, this weekend I might have me another tractor. Not exactly a new acquisition, more like an old friend coming home. Around 1970-71, my grandfather bought a new Massey Ferguson 165. I spent many hours on it cutting and raking hay growing up. Grandpa got out of farming and it went to Dad, then Dad decided to take a hiatus from farming and it went to my sister and her husband. Despite my insistence that real tractors are red and gray, they found a deal on a new John Deere that they couldn't pass up and the 165 has been in their barn ever since. So, we are going to haul it over to my place to give the little TO-35 some help.

I was in our local builders yard yesterday and this one came in after some bags of cement

FergusonTO35 · Jul 6, 2018

Sweet, just like ours! Interestingly, the 165 never made it over to my place. My brother in law has been using it because his brand new John Deere keeps needing warranty repairs.

In other tractor news, we are fixing up the Mahindra 4500. Don't know if we are going to use it or sell it. The thing has had lots of irritating problems ever since we got it and Dad is pretty tired of fooling with it. Dad found a gas powered Ford 5000 with a loader so we may try to get that one. Those 60's-90's Fords are hard to beat and there is a New Holland dealer just up the road from me.

RyeThomas · Aug 29, 2018

Well after a long wait (I knew the lead time up front) my Everything Attachments Wicked Root Grapple showed up. Even in 100 degree weather I had to go give her a test. Super impressed.

RyeThomas · Aug 29, 2018

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