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stihl023/5
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Stihl023/5 I never thought of running my metal fence posts in between the wood slats of the pallets. Looks effective. I'm going to do that today to shore up a couple of my "Wood Cribs".
Yes it works quite well I seen it somewhere years ago and started doing it. Makes great use of thinner pallets.
Hedgerow
HACK
I always wanted to fill a corn crib... I may do that just for kicks this year...
Need an elevator for it though...
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
Hedge, there's a local that does that, we drove by it on the way to Boyds. Just stacks it up as high as he can reach. Seems to work well.
I might try the same this year, just gotta rescue the old crib from the grasp of them damn boxelders. Concrete floor, open sides, and a good roof, what more can you ask from a woodshed?
I might try the same this year, just gotta rescue the old crib from the grasp of them damn boxelders. Concrete floor, open sides, and a good roof, what more can you ask from a woodshed?
Hedgerow
HACK
stihl023/5
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I would try it but I think the corn will be good enough this year to fill the other cribs.
Hedgerow
HACK
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
There's thousands of wire corn cribs sitting unused around here, no one picks ear corn any more, except for a few little guys feeding a few pigs or beefers. Might as well get use out of em for something.
We used to have a 8'x50' rectangular crib that would have worked nice for firewood, but the floor was shot and no roof, so it came down a few years back. The space gets used for storage of rounds that need to be split from wood I cut away from home. Dump it there, and split at my leisure. That way I can work faster if someone has a bunch of loads they want gone.
Here's a pic of my crib from back when it was still in use, with a load of firewood behind the tractor, just to stay a little bit on topic:
stihl023/5
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See I cheat I do most corn on the cob then let it fully dry in the crib. (No cost to dry) Then I fire up the sheller for what I need, cobs then go through the chipper and back on the fields. Ever burned cobs? They burn hot. Besides you beat the snot out of a combine doing corn.:biggrin:
Hedgerow
HACK
Finally managed to get up and collect the sycamore that I had been cutting up.
Was 2 degrees this morning and turned in to a beautiful day. Was drenched after filling her up with two loads.
I have split and have and will end up like arnie after this lot. Tested a log out and split fairly easy.
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Was 2 degrees this morning and turned in to a beautiful day. Was drenched after filling her up with two loads.
I have split and have and will end up like arnie after this lot. Tested a log out and split fairly easy.
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Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
Old school. You've been unignored. Still can't hang with even a small combine though. 20% moisture corn keeps well in a crib. Here, snow can be butt deep before it dries much below that in the field. I never shelled any though, IMHO, feeding ground ear corn to cattle/pigs gives a better flavor than straight shelled corn does. BTW, all the stalks and dirt from soybeans wear a combine a lot quicker than corn will.
Used to have a #10 until it died of old age and obsolete parts, now have a 324 out back. It's a picking machine till you try to get the cobs to go UP the husking bed on a good sidehill...
Just another temporary derail of the thread, I better go split some cottonwood and put a stack pic up before work.
Hedgerow
HACK
Here's a stack pic to keep the thread going...
upsnake
ArboristSite Operative
Hedge, We better not hear that you are not coming to our MI GTG b/c a pile of wood fell on your head. 
Hedgerow
HACK
Hedge, We better not hear that you are not coming to our MI GTG b/c a pile of wood fell on your head.
It ain't done yet either...:big_smile:
And I keep waiting for you MI boys to get one together!!!
April or May is best...
Thawed, but not too many skeeters yet...
Wolfen
ArboristSite Operative
Looking at yalls rigs, makes me think mine is ratty looking LOL but here it is anyway
Wood so far, mostly split with the 8 lb maul in the other picture, last 1/3 I have had the splitter
Here's the area where I split it at, right in that little opening area
This is what I haul it on (class 1)
This is what I haul it with (4 banger that's why the trailer is class 1)
Here's what I have left to split for this year so far (yes that's all mixed, mostly Gum and Oak)
And these are the tools I use, the axe is older than most of yall on here, I got it from my Grandfather, the Maul is the 8lb 2011 model, the wedges are 40 years old, and the hydraulic splitter is a ten ton from Harbor Freight, and so far it splits everything except what I split with the maul and axe, the Sledge hammer is only 20 years old and yes that's a ten lb one, and yes I use the tools all day when I split wood, and yes I DO sleep good that night
The dog is my 12 week old Beagle Hound mix that saves me from snakes and brings me rabbits and squirrels
Wood so far, mostly split with the 8 lb maul in the other picture, last 1/3 I have had the splitter
Here's the area where I split it at, right in that little opening area
This is what I haul it on (class 1)
This is what I haul it with (4 banger that's why the trailer is class 1)
Here's what I have left to split for this year so far (yes that's all mixed, mostly Gum and Oak)
And these are the tools I use, the axe is older than most of yall on here, I got it from my Grandfather, the Maul is the 8lb 2011 model, the wedges are 40 years old, and the hydraulic splitter is a ten ton from Harbor Freight, and so far it splits everything except what I split with the maul and axe, the Sledge hammer is only 20 years old and yes that's a ten lb one, and yes I use the tools all day when I split wood, and yes I DO sleep good that night
The dog is my 12 week old Beagle Hound mix that saves me from snakes and brings me rabbits and squirrels 
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
Hedge is that the entrance to Levi's top secret saw shop?
Didn't get any splitting done today due to a dead splitter tractor battery. To get something done while it was charging, I brought some wood in the house. A bunch of square pine for taking the chill off. 1/8 cord there:
I loaded another load to bring in tonight or tomorrow:
I took the little 420 out and almost finished blocking the cottonwoods before I ran out of fuel. Lots of overbucking on the bigger pieces. I'll finish tomorrow with a bigger saw.
Here's what I've got worked up already from those cottonwoods, the front row finished will be a full cord:
Time to head for work, have a good one everybody!
Didn't get any splitting done today due to a dead splitter tractor battery. To get something done while it was charging, I brought some wood in the house. A bunch of square pine for taking the chill off. 1/8 cord there:
I loaded another load to bring in tonight or tomorrow:
I took the little 420 out and almost finished blocking the cottonwoods before I ran out of fuel. Lots of overbucking on the bigger pieces. I'll finish tomorrow with a bigger saw.
Here's what I've got worked up already from those cottonwoods, the front row finished will be a full cord:
Time to head for work, have a good one everybody!
Hedgerow
HACK
That would be the entrance to his sniper's nest... "Airsoft BB wars"
zogger
Tree Freak
zogger
Tree Freak
Looking at yalls rigs, makes me think mine is ratty looking LOL but here it is anyway
Wood so far, mostly split with the 8 lb maul in the other picture, last 1/3 I have had the splitter
This is what I haul it on (class 1)
Here's what I have left to split for this year so far (yes that's all mixed, mostly Gum and Oak)
And these are the tools I use, the axe is older than most of yall on here, I got it from my Grandfather, the Maul is the 8lb 2011 model, the wedges are 40 years old, and the hydraulic splitter is a ten ton from Harbor Freight, and so far it splits everything except what I split with the maul and axe, the Sledge hammer is only 20 years old and yes that's a ten lb one, and yes I use the tools all day when I split wood, and yes I DO sleep good that night
I think I like that (without ever actually seeing or trying one) nordic ski track manual biodrive hydraulic rig. IIRC HBRN, now banned, bought one and seemed to like it.
