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Anyone have a wood splitter attachment on the hoe?

Fred from MO

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Clawed Backster said:
I guess I'm just a weirdo. I actually enjoy cutting firewood. That is when I can do it at a relaxed pace, in decent weather.
I always get a kick out of the people who would never dream of cutting firewood because it is too much work. Yeah, the same people who will spend $25 per month on a gym membership.
BTW, I am WAAAAAY too picky about my firewood to ever buy it from someone else. Yeah, I'm "that guy" who trims all of the knots absolutely flush, and cuts all of the pieces to just the right length. ;)
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I hear you! Cutting wood for me is relaxing. In most cases, I am cleaning up a tree that fell over one of my roads through the woods that I cant drive around. So in that case I am doing the following 1) cleaning up a mess that needs cleaned up anyway. 2) Using the wood from the mess to heat my home. 3) Getting some exercise 4) Getting outside and enjoying nature 5) Saving money on my electric bill come winter time. This past couple of weeks I burned through a ton of wood. It got down to -17. I had the wood stove going in the basement, the fireplace on the main floor and the woodstove in the shop. The electric furnace didn't kick on once. Plus without power none of my pipes froze. I have a generator to run the well and other things electric, but the heating part comes in handy and I enjoy it. However I always look for a better way of doing something. The backhoe attachment looks pretty neat for those big logs. There are some trees that are so big, I just don't want to waste all that good wood, but yet wrestling with those huge chunks are getting to be a challenge. Smaller ones are no big deal.
 
Fred from MO

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Fred from MO said:
I hear you! Cutting wood for me is relaxing. In most cases, I am cleaning up a tree that fell over one of my roads through the woods that I cant drive around. So in that case I am doing the following 1) cleaning up a mess that needs cleaned up anyway. 2) Using the wood from the mess to heat my home. 3) Getting some exercise 4) Getting outside and enjoying nature 5) Saving money on my electric bill come winter time. This past couple of weeks I burned through a ton of wood. It got down to -17. I had the wood stove going in the basement, the fireplace on the main floor and the woodstove in the shop. The electric furnace didn't kick on once. Plus without power none of my pipes froze. I have a generator to run the well and other things electric, but the heating part comes in handy and I enjoy it. However I always look for a better way of doing something. The backhoe attachment looks pretty neat for those big logs. There are some trees that are so big, I just don't want to waste all that good wood, but yet wrestling with those huge chunks are getting to be a challenge. Smaller ones are no big deal.
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T-town said:
Swetz....
Lots of coal to be had round these parts.... one of the few places in the US where the 'hard' coal lay. Was never used to generate elec..... that was the soft coal out in western Pa.
This was used in steel making..... and to heat buildings. Lot of btu's/volume compared to the soft stuff.

Its delivered in a dump that brings it by the ton. Old valley homes stored it where it was used..... in the basement. Trucks all carried various chutes to get down below.
Our daughter's in-law uses it to heat an old 2.5 story farmhouse..... 3 ton @ $570.
I remember it @ 90/ton back in '80...
Not as quick to get to heat...... but easier to maintain a level than most wood stoves I've seen.
Auto stoker stoves built here in Pa make for nice set-ups.
All kinds of dual systems to be had...... coal/wood


Though handy storage/move around wise.... you wouldn't want to buy it buy the bag to heat for a season.
Not a "pretty" fire to look at though........ cleaner than most old wood stoves.... though not sure 'bout some of these newer wood stoves. They have built some 'boxes' that seems to get most stuff combusted.

...and needed to compliment your splitter!!! and you can use it to go down to the mailbox to fetch the mail!
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Thanks for the info T-town!

and you can use it to go down to the mailbox to fetch the mail!...LOL
 
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Fred,
Love the old tractor and the awesome trailer...what truck donated it? Nice pile of wood too!
For me, it was actually therapy to build my splitter. Job isn't what it used to be, so I would come home and get into the zone building the splitter. Before you know it I forgot my work related woes. It also became a magnet to all the neighborhood guys that would stop by because they thought it was cool...an excuse for a couple of beers!

Now that it is mostly complete, I really do not mind splitting wood. On my list, splitting wood is nowhere near as bad as having to spackle sheetrock...LOL
 
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Splitters are great, processors are better. In my view anything hanging on the end of an excavator, backhoe, or skid steer is akin to that infamous monkey and his football. Watching even a good operator chase wood makes me cringe. I have a 20 pound sledge hammer, but I don't usually use it to tune carburetors. Horses for courses, just because you have it doesn't mean you should try to do everything with it.
 
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Swetz said:
Fred,
Love the old tractor and the awesome trailer...what truck donated it? Nice pile of wood too!
For me, it was actually therapy to build my splitter. Job isn't what it used to be, so I would come home and get into the zone building the splitter. Before you know it I forgot my work related woes. It also became a magnet to all the neighborhood guys that would stop by because they thought it was cool...an excuse for a couple of beers!

Now that it is mostly complete, I really do not mind splitting wood. On my list, splitting wood is nowhere near as bad as having to spackle sheetrock...LOL
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I think that would be a neat project to make something like you did. It has inspired me to think about it. I think I have everything to build one but the beam and the hydraulic steering motor. In regards to what donated the trailer in my picture, its about a 1970 ford pickup truck bed I bought about 11 years ago for $200. It still has the ford 9" in it and a buddy of mine told me I could get my money out of it if I ever sold the rear end to a race car guy? We hook the trailer up to the tractor, then the splitter behind the trailer. I am like a long train as we snake through the woods. But we split and then chuck the split wood into the trailer and bring it back to the wood storage area. That we in most cases we arnt bending over to pick up the wood sometime later. I have a dump trailer that I can put behind the tractor but found that its neat to dump a load of wood on the ground, but then your left picking it up and stacking it. So if we chuck it into the pickup trailer, we just reach over the side to stack it for long storage. More efficient that way. The issue I have is dealing with the 3 foot diameter slabs and positioning them under the splitter when the splitert is turned vertically. That wood is heavy to maneuver. I would think for those cases, a backhoe splitter would be handy
 
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Fred from MO said:
I think that would be a neat project to make something like you did. It has inspired me to think about it. I think I have everything to build one but the beam and the hydraulic steering motor. In regards to what donated the trailer in my picture, its about a 1970 ford pickup truck bed I bought about 11 years ago for $200. It still has the ford 9" in it and a buddy of mine told me I could get my money out of it if I ever sold the rear end to a race car guy? We hook the trailer up to the tractor, then the splitter behind the trailer. I am like a long train as we snake through the woods. But we split and then chuck the split wood into the trailer and bring it back to the wood storage area. That we in most cases we arnt bending over to pick up the wood sometime later. I have a dump trailer that I can put behind the tractor but found that its neat to dump a load of wood on the ground, but then your left picking it up and stacking it. So if we chuck it into the pickup trailer, we just reach over the side to stack it for long storage. More efficient that way. The issue I have is dealing with the 3 foot diameter slabs and positioning them under the splitter when the splitert is turned vertically. That wood is heavy to maneuver. I would think for those cases, a backhoe splitter would be handy
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Fred from MO said:
Is that wood and tin cover just setting on those fence posts? If so how does the wind keep from blowing the cover off?
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Its screwed down to framing under the steel. You can see the screw heads on the topside of the steel in his picture. Or nailed, i can't tell in the picture if they're old steel siding nails or the newer style screws
 
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Hey Toxic,

Nice splitter!

I have the same grizzly, actually 2 of them (wife and I). How do you like those bighorn tires? I am needing new tires and my son swears by the bighorns, so I am thinking maybe. They are a bit spendy, indeed!
 
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Fred,
I love the wood train! That old ford trailer sure gets a workout with that much wood in it. Your friend is correct, the old ford 9" rears are used in racing. In fact, since Ford stopped making them, and aftermarket company is now manufacturing them$$$ The reason they are sought after is the fact that the pinion is supported by three bearings as opposed to the 2 in most rears...makes them hard to blow up, although in racing anything is possible.
Anyhow, to me, it appears that this trailer exceeds the value of the rear in the work it does for you!
It is funny how we worry about bending over as we get older....when younger, one doesn't even consider it.
 
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Swetz...those big horns are the best tire i hqve ever had for all round use..there is 10,000 km on those ones currently and they still lool good enough to me. just make sure to get the oridginals and not the crappy 2.0 ones
 
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Toxic,
Yes I have heard the 2.0 is crap, they r stock on some machines tho.
 
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Fred from MO said:
Is that wood and tin cover just setting on those fence posts? If so how does the wind keep from blowing the cover off?
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Haha, yes, basically the roof just sits over the top of those posts. For as poorly as it is built, it has served me really well for about 10 years now. The wood stacked against the posts helps to stabilize it. It is really shaky when it is empty. As I use the wood through the winter, I am refilling it with fresh wood for the next year, so it is basically never empty.
 
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