firewood tractors

[Deleted member 150358]

1962 Minneapolis-Moline JetStar with Schwartz loader.
Didn't see any Mo's here so thought I'd add one!

Tire guy will be out with new 14.9-28 6ply Firestones for her thursday morning. She doesn't get worked hard but still wears some mud from the last couple loads brought home as the frost was going out.

 

[alleyyooper]

I have a soft spot for Minnies, would love to have a 445.

Al

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My buddy that helps me from time to time has a mini-mo, it was his grandpa's... Mostly he takes it to shows..

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I cleaned and adjusted the tracks on one of my fire wood tractors today,

It's now ready to go!

SR

 

[Deleted member 150358]

Love the crawlers. We had a JD crawler with a loader. Think it was a 420? Been a while basically the same as an M with the up n down 2-cylinder. Was just getting too expensive to maintain so it had to go.

Mo got his new shoes. Hope they last another 40 years or so!

 

[DSW]

Now if only they made truck tires that lasted for 40 years.

 

[dewaldf.carstens]

Our MF B40 with FLT, not ideal but better than loading 300mm logs by hand, very good on fuel; 25 L lasts 2 full days.

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[Deleted member 150358]

40B = Perkins diesel whats not to luv

 

[rarefish383]

Love the crawlers. We had a JD crawler with a loader. Think it was a 420? Been a while basically the same as an M with the up n down 2-cylinder. Was just getting too expensive to maintain so it had to go.

Mo got his new shoes. Hope they last another 40 years or so!

I had a buddy in high school that used to drive his Moline to school. It was a 60's model and it was pretty big. All I remember is that it was bigger than my JD 2010, Joe.

 

[dewaldf.carstens]

40B = Perkins diesel whats not to luv

Yes 3 cylinder, same as 165....

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[Sawyer Rob]

First job my firewood tractor did today, was to unload this walnut a friend brought over,

I'll be milling it for him soon...

Next, I moved an old pine log to my BSM, as I need some stickers,

I went all around it, taking the slabs off, then taking 7/8" boards off and then every three boards or so, I would stand them up and take 7/8" cuts off them,

Until I had the whole log milled into 8' 6" x 7/8" x 7/8" "stickers.

I then stacked the stickers side by side, layer by layer, until I had a nice stack, and put four ratchet straps around the pile to hold all the stickers together. All that was left to do after that, was to measure out two 48" lengths and chainsaw them out, making two bundles of 48" long stickers!

for a total at just over 200.

That's it for today!

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've been using my firewood tractor to push out some walnut and pine stumps that needed to be removed.

I cut the tree's earlier for firewood, as they were blown over by a tornado...

My 450 isn't a big dozer, but it does get the job done, it just takes a little longer,

And with a few of the stumps out, I did a bit of "clean up" as I moved on to the next spot,

I will get back out there soon and clean up the last of the firewood...

SR

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Here's my firewood tractor at work, loading this walnut,

on my BSM and then I opened it up,

WOW, pretty nice log, so I took some wide 5/4 flitches off, turning it until I had all the slabs off,

Once I went all the way around, I switched to taking 8/4 boards off and stacking them out of the way,

until I had a total of nine 8/4 boards, 17 inches wide!

NOW, that's what I call some NICE walnut lumber!!

oooooh, and I did get the several 5/4 flitches too!

SR

 

[johnnyballs]

Here's my firewood tractor at work, loading this walnut,

on my BSM and then I opened it up,

WOW, pretty nice log, so I took some wide 5/4 flitches off, turning it until I had all the slabs off,

Once I went all the way around, I switched to taking 8/4 boards off and stacking them out of the way,

until I had a total of nine 8/4 boards, 17 inches wide!

NOW, that's what I call some NICE walnut lumber!!

oooooh, and I did get the several 5/4 flitches too!

SR

beautiful...nice work...

 

[texican65]

She's not very big or powerful, but it's all I've got to haul rounds or split stuff around the yard, it does come in very handy. 1967 John Deere 110 with Koehler 8hp...thing weighs 600 lbs. it was dead when I got it, I've gone through just about everything, minus a paint job.

Dow

 

[J3 Driver]

That tractor and cart are on my wish list. They are both built really tough.

 

[Dirtboy]

Horse traded for this last year after my 36 year old Ariens S16H finally gave up the ghost. 4 wheel drive is AWESOME

 

[Erik B]

Horse traded for this last year after my 36 year old Ariens S16H finally gave up the ghost. 4 wheel drive is AWESOME View attachment 589106

@Dirtboy You can get a lot of neat toys with that model.

 

[Jere39]

Horse traded for this last year after my 36 year old Ariens S16H finally gave up the ghost. 4 wheel drive is AWESOME View attachment 589106

You're going to love that tractor! Mine is a jack of all trades:

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My "firewood tractor", was moving/delivering loads of "big bales" today, with my NEW PJ trailer... 11 bale loads,

I built this hitch for the 3 point out of "scrap" I found in my steel pile, it makes hooking and unhooking trailers in the field, really fast, and will work nicely for loads of firewood too.

SR