I'm sold on having a wood hauler

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Enzo's Dad

Feeling the Heat
Dec 16, 2013
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Canton, CT
Buying an old tractor has saved alot of time and energy this seaon. Way easier to haul the wood to the pile and split
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Couldn't heat my house with wood without a tractor and assorted trailers.
 
Nice. :cool: I wouldn't be able to get half the wood that's here without the quad and trailer. Lotta slopes in my woods. I've got a Polar Trailer HD 1200. Trying to get my BIL to buy himself a trailer for his lawn tractor. I think he's catching the wood bug from the work we've been doing at his place... ==c
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Yep - I haul it out in lengths. At my last house I hauled the wood in from elsewhere with the truck and dropped it near the pile. Now I have to go rooting around in the woods for it.

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I love both tractors you two have posted. Trailers are cool too but dang.... I got tractor envy....cool little tractors!
 
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I wish I knew how to weld, I would like to make a splitter that runs off the power take off. But for now the fiskars are fine.

Seeing the pictures I want a bigger tractor!
 
I debated that, but decided I'd rather be putting those hours on a $400 Subaru engine, than my tractor. Plus, I like to keep the trailer on the tractor, tossing splits into it, to haul to the stacking location.
 
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Yeah I keep comming back to the point. In my head it seems cool to build my own splitter, but at 45 I am doing fine with fiskars
 
I love both tractors you two have posted. Trailers are cool too but dang.... I got tractor envy....cool little tractors!

There's a smaller version of that Economy called a "Jim Dandy" with a narrower frame, shorter wheelbase, smaller front tires, and different gearing. Good fun.

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Nice tractors! I use my quad, but the FIL has a mid 50s Farmall 100 I could use, if he'd get off his butt and get it running. He's retired and has waaayyyy more free time than I do
 
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I am a full believer in automation of wood movement. Almost to the point of embarrassment. ;em

To the OP - notice that Allis Chalmers in my pics? Almost the exact same tractor as yours is. (I have two of those and an old B1 Allis to boot.)
 
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My personal fave is the EV tractor you built for your son.

I've been hunting for a mini tractor for my son, but being so busy, not looking for another project. I'm thinking a fully-restored Bantam 500 may be on my shopping list, very soon.
 
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I am a full believer in automation of wood movement.
And the boy has followed suit, driving with his eyes closed, on full automatic. ;lol
 
Jags, looks like whatever it might be, you have it covered!! :)
 
Lol nothing to be embarrassed about! Having back-ups for your back-ups is a good thing
 
1959 Jeep FC150. FC stand for Forward Control. Typical 4 banger jeep engine with a more robust drive train. They made a larger version called the FC170. Some very strange version existed.
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To keep this wood related... Imagine this load of logs on a typical pickup truck
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