Do I need a bigger tractor to haul wood?

[Bushmans]

Might this picture be just for fun?:msp_thumbup:

Why would you use a tractor when it's pretty obvious you can get a truck in there?

All in all still agreat picture and I am jealous of the sweet trailer!

 

[Whitespider]

Here be some winter pics of the little beast (before the winch was added)...

 

[zogger]

heres one from last year...

Thats funny! Now you need to photoshop in the shed full of wood!

My record for little one bangers is towing home my high top chevy camper van with the wheel horse. And the van was slap fulla junk. I am guestimating around 4 tons. Van itself was well over three tons.

When I was using it for firewood and like skidding big rocks and logs for garden landscaping, and needed more traction with the turf tires, I would drop the rear rototiller and engage the PTO.

 

[Mac88]

Do I need a bigger tractor to haul wood?

Whaddya think?

I don't know. Fred Wright does pretty well with his

It only blanked out the middle letters, n those stand for "Shut the ____ up. So it's likely in the filters. It's combination of the first letters of those words and the f bomb.

My cousin D.i.c.k. has the same problem. IMHO, the filtering here on AS is just a bit of overkill. Asinine.

Might this picture be just for fun?:msp_thumbup:

His REAL tractor was just out of view when he took the pic.

 

[mybowtie]

I would hate to take that down the hills around here... I used to pull a Datsun(remember those) PU bed made into a trailer with a Honda forman. I could pull that trailer loaded to the gills. Downhill, the trailer would try and pass me making for some interesting monents.

 

[nathon918]

Thats funny! Now you need to photoshop in the shed full of wood!

My record for little one bangers is towing home my high top chevy camper van with the wheel horse. And the van was slap fulla junk. I am guestimating around 4 tons. Van itself was well over three tons.

When I was using it for firewood and like skidding big rocks and logs for garden landscaping, and needed more traction with the turf tires, I would drop the rear rototiller and engage the PTO.

the tractor here is a "wheel horse" cough toro POS its got a hydro drive and a kawisaki 17hp, its a decent mower but that about it,
now if it were an actual Wheel Horse 8 spd it would pull that shed full of wood no problem

i moved the shed last spring and rebuilt it, closed it in and made it a salt box style, i pack just under 8 cord in there stacked 10ft high
stacking wood with a ladder is just so much fun

 

[farmer steve]

Might this picture be just for fun?:msp_thumbup:

Why would you use a tractor when it's pretty obvious you can get a truck in there?

All in all still agreat picture and I am jealous of the sweet trailer!

truck was in the shop.dont ask. needed to get that hickory out of the woods. thats just 1/2 a limb in the trailer.

 

[bucknfeller]

So what model Cub is that? Original...71...72?

 

[Lignator]

Here be some winter pics of the little beast (before the winch was added)...

I am loving the wheel weights!

I picked up an old MTD w/ a blown motor for free. New HF motor and it runs strong. Need a set of chains for the tires. Seems like it pulls strong just loses traction. My primary goal was to move my splitter around the yard without getting a hernia.

 

[Mac88]

My neighbor has a non-running JD 212 he's gonna cough up one of these days. Kohler 301 if I'm not mistaken. I'm first in line for it.

 

[Bushmans]

My neighbor has a non-running JD 212 he's gonna cough up one of these days. Kohler 301 if I'm not mistaken. I'm first in line for it.

I have a 210. I just keep painting it. Except for a piston n ring change!

 

[Mac88]

I have a 210. I just keep painting it. Except for a piston n ring change!

I think he did that (piston and rings) which is probably why it's a non-runner. I just hope he gives it up before it rusts away. Otherwise I'm probably gonna have to put a new hydro transaxle in my Craftsman. :msp_mad:

 

[Whitespider]

Need a set of chains for the tires. Seems like it pulls strong just loses traction.

Traction is all about weight... not weight on the tractor, weight on the ground. If you add weight to the tractor, you put more load on the bearings and transmission... put more weight in the wheels and you don't stress the tractor.

Those tires have tubes, completely full of calcium chloride solution, and with the brake rotor wheel weights they weigh in at something close to 175 pounds each... yet no weight is applied to the mechanical part of the little tractor.

And yes... the tire chains make it bite.

 

[philoshop]

I noticed the ball on the front.:msp_thumbup: Only way to go downhill without that OMG moment.

 

[Erock]

wouldn't think traction would be much an issue. steering may be a bit of a concern

 

[turnkey4099]

Ummmmm......
Ahhh........
Well............
Hmmmm...... Everything I have is just a bit to large already, thank you :cool2:

That's nice of you to believe your wife's lies.

Harry K

 

[homemade]

OK my money is on that the cub is a 102

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[artbaldoni]

YES! You need a huge farm tractor like me...

 

[bucknfeller]

YES! You need a huge farm tractor like me...

Nice little tractor there! Looks like a Low Boy? I grew up on the Farmall version of that.

 

[farmer steve]

YES! You need a huge farm tractor like me...

I See your location. have you ever gone to the hay &firewood auction in ship? FS