My firewood stuff

[Tirediron]

the little electric winch that moves the trolley

 

[Tirediron]

bucked log

 

[Tirediron]

the new tipping sections, this is way nicer,

 

[Patchouli]

You’ve been very busy!

 

[Tirediron]

made the drying cages easier to load and unload,

the cutout panels are WAY nicer to work with, the wood stays put moving them closer to the house when the cage is full.
Of course if the would is dry it goes in the small racks , right into the basement.

 

[Tirediron]

there are faster way to do the process, but this way is far easier on the back and shoulders, and that is what my goal is, make the job less taxing on the body

 

[Hooch]

That is pretty creative! I like it!

 

[Bacpacker]

That is a heck of a set up. Making work easier on yourself is a great thing. You won't always be 20 and ready to tackle anything.

 

[LadyLocust]

bucked log View attachment 167441

Wish it was scratch n sniff

 

[Tirediron]

I made another improvement to my system , but am currently still learning about pictures on lubuntu
so maybe no pictures for a little while.

 

[Peanut]

I have linux... just connect my phone via cable 'usb' to desktop or laptop. When I connect my phone (samsung) it pops up a message 'allow access', I allow.

Then I use the linux file manager to open my phone's file structure, go to the folder with photos, DCIM/Camera. Then drag and drop today's photos to my desktop folder. I open them with gimp, edit, resize, etc.

My phone names photos by date and time so its simple to know which photos I want to copy. Oh, I have my phone set to store photos on the sd card. If you don't have an sd card but use internal phone storage... look for the DCIM folder/camera (samsung)...

You can see the bottom edge... I have 468 photos on my sd card.

 

[Tirediron]

I have linux... just connect my phone via cable 'usb' to desktop or laptop. When I connect my phone (samsung) it pops up a message 'allow access', I allow.

Then I use the linux file manager to open my phone's file structure, go to the folder with photos, DCIM/Camera. Then drag and drop today's photos to my desktop folder. I open them with gimp, edit, resize, etc.

My phone names photos by date and time so its simple to know which photos I want to copy. Oh, I have my phone set to store photos on the sd card. If you don't have an sd card but use internal phone storage... look for the DCIM folder/camera (samsung)...

You can see the bottom edge... I have 468 photos on my sd card.

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one of my boo boos in the photo transfer game was a charge only cord, and a bit of nomenclature. i gott a bunch of pictures to load yesterday, thanks you for your help

 

[Tirediron]

Alright let's do this . the rack on its "skateboard" in the wagon

the rack and skateboard in the basement, I didn't do the ramp pictures because I didn't want to have the door open for too long in this cold


sliding the rack off the skate board, the strap hold the rack stable, the one on the floor is the one that holds the rack on the wagon


shows how the rack and wagon strap together for the trip from the processor

 

[Tirediron]

this method is easier on the back than either the wheeler/handtruck (also cleaner, the skateboard stays in the wagon) and the wagon with 3 Rubbermaid totes. I will post more picture of the down the ramp process when the weather warms up a bit , prolly use an empty to show the rope brake detail.
the racks hold just under 1/12 of a cord.

 

[Hooch]

Cool!! Very crafty!

 

[Neb]

Alright let's do this . View attachment 173846the rack on its "skateboard" in the wagon

View attachment 173847the rack and skateboard in the basement, I didn't do the ramp pictures because I didn't want to have the door open for too long in this cold

View attachment 173848
sliding the rack off the skate board, the strap hold the rack stable, the one on the floor is the one that holds the rack on the wagon

View attachment 173849
shows how the rack and wagon strap together for the trip from the processor

That is way cool!

Ben

 

[Neb]

I would love to see a video of your process tree to stove. It would be cool.

Ben

 

[Tirediron]

I would love to see a video of your process tree to stove. It would be cool.

Ben

I should probably do that, I will have to find someone who could video it for me, I will get to focus on what I am doing to stop and reset a camera

 

[Mountain trapper]

Very nice! Good design. We just use the tractor bucket to move split wood to the wood shed. Then a wheel barrow the 12 feet to the front porch.

 

[Neb]

Very nice! Good design. We just use the tractor bucket to move split wood to the wood shed. Then a wheel barrow the 12 feet to the front porch.

Yes but I think @Tirediron approach reduces the number of times a piece of wood is handled.

Ben

 

[Tirediron]

Very nice! Good design. We just use the tractor bucket to move split wood to the wood shed. Then a wheel barrow the 12 feet to the front porch.

I am trying to use as little machinery as possible with out crippling my self, the IBC tote cages with the split tank lid are nice. I also mostly use yellow poplar, to keep it from just covering the floor of the bush pasture, and falling on fences, with poplar you never know the moisture content until it is split, I used to buck and split right in front of the wood shed, but having access to dry wood meant a lot of re stacking.
spruce or pine standing dead is almost always dry but there was a couple of big fires through here over a century ago, so mostly poplar now. This system should make it so I can burn my own wood as long as I am at least semi functional.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I am trying to use as little machinery as possible with out crippling my self, the IBC tote cages with the split tank lid are nice. I also mostly use yellow poplar, to keep it from just covering the floor of the bush pasture, and falling on fences, with poplar you never know the moisture content until it is split, I used to buck and split right in front of the wood shed, but having access to dry wood meant a lot of re stacking.
spruce or pine standing dead is almost always dry but there was a couple of big fires through here over a century ago, so mostly poplar now. This system should make it so I can burn my own wood as long as I am at least semi functional.

I burn only dead dry doug fir and larch. That's about the best firewood around here.
Many years ago I used to log with a team of horses. Also had a sawmill where I'd mill my own lumber for building and sale. I fabricated a logging arch for skidding large logs, or multiple smaller logs out of the woods. When I quit logging I sold it to another horse logger for a pretty good profit. I wish now that I made several of them for resale.
It looks like your pretty clever at building things. Have you thought about selling some of your creations?

 

[Tirediron]

I burn only dead dry doug fir and larch. That's about the best firewood around here.
Many years ago I used to log with a team of horses. Also had a sawmill where I'd mill my own lumber for building and sale. I fabricated a logging arch for skidding large logs, or multiple smaller logs out of the woods. When I quit logging I sold it to another horse logger for a pretty good profit. I wish now that I made several of them for resale.
It looks like your pretty clever at building things. Have you thought about selling some of your creations?

kind of firewood heaven there, doug fir and larch except for the creosote.
When I get my buck rack system figured out further it should be marketable. the market is about saturated with the hydraulic chainsaw drop splitter machines. and a lot of people have a decent splitter already, just need to fill the bucking on the ground game.

 

[elkhound]

love this thread !

 

[Tirediron]

Made a few more improvements to the buck rack and a few more to the into the house end

 

[Tirediron]

end view of the buck rack, in the first set of pictures, I only had one 4 tip section on the trolley, added the other 4 tip section, At 16 inches that works for 10'8" logs, I also added the extensions on the splitter side of the tip sections .

First tip section at the splitter throat,

the first section empty, the extensions just clear the beam. and small stuff doesn't drop between

the loaded rack on the wagon, at the basement entrance , the spreader bar hold the wagon in place .

Empty , for detail. on wagon ramp, and the'' capstan"brake handle

the skateboard on the wagon ramp, the little blue rope wraps around the handle and hooks to the rack

At the bottom of the ramp. I missed the one half way down the ramp showing the rope holding the load back, but you can imagine that one.

 

[LadyLocust]

View attachment 173932
end view of the buck rack, in the first set of pictures, I only had one 4 tip section on the trolley, added the other 4 tip section, At 16 inches that works for 10'8" logs, I also added the extensions on the splitter side of the tip sections .
View attachment 173933
First tip section at the splitter throat,
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the first section empty, the extensions just clear the beam. and small stuff doesn't drop between
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the loaded rack on the wagon, at the basement entrance , the spreader bar hold the wagon in place .
View attachment 173936
Empty , for detail. on wagon ramp, and the'' capstan"brake handle
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the skateboard on the wagon ramp, the little blue rope wraps around the handle and hooks to the rack
View attachment 173939
At the bottom of the ramp. I missed the one half way down the ramp showing the rope holding the load back, but you can imagine that one.

That’s impressive.