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Offline mike p

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fire wood pallet
« on: February 05, 2009, 07:31:30 PM »
now i just need about 6 more of these
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2009, 09:25:50 PM »
I could probably use about 50 or more.  I burn as great deal of 32" wood for the Taylor furnaces.

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2019, 04:43:02 PM »
Great idea... Now make a trailer to fit your boxes...

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2019, 12:16:01 PM »
I use forks on loader.
So how do you load a loaded box on trailer
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2019, 05:17:20 PM »
There is forks inside the front of the trailer. 3-point down... Back into box...
3-point lift. Now the front of the box is in the air. The winch lifts the back
of the box...
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #5 on: January 17, 2019, 07:20:19 PM »
The cold hard fact is theirs no easy way to handle firewood. We can make small improvements at best. Please let us know if containerizing is worth the effort. Thanks Frank C.

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2019, 07:17:01 PM »
i have been doing it for a few years. I would not want it any other way. I can take the box right out into the woods and load it once. When I need it I hook one up and go...Great way to store fire wood.
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2019, 08:50:44 AM »
Sounds like it's a bit easier, for sure.  Don't have to unload, then stack.  It's already done.  You've taken the handling down to 5 times for each piece - cut with chainsaw/buzzsaw/whatever, into the box, into the house, into the stove, out with the ashes.
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2019, 05:28:16 PM »
Add 2 times handling for splitter in there
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2019, 08:37:20 AM »
You're right - I forgot.  I'm good at making mistakes.  :-X
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2019, 12:47:47 PM »
Those big liquid bins work ok too, just get rid of the plastic tub inside..


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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #11 on: February 14, 2019, 09:20:23 AM »
We took one of those cages and strapped it to the loader on a tractor and stood inside for trimming branches off trees around the hedgerows on the farm.  It was secure and safe. 
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #12 on: February 14, 2019, 09:50:47 AM »
We took one of those cages and strapped it to the loader on a tractor and stood inside for trimming branches off trees around the hedgerows on the farm.  It was secure and safe.

That’s a good idea, but I would have nobody to drive the tractor?

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2019, 11:54:41 AM »
That’s a good idea, but I would have nobody to drive the tractor?


yup. right there with ya.


The rare times I do get help I usually wish I had just done it myself.

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2019, 02:03:50 PM »

yup. right there with ya.


The rare times I do get help I usually wish I had just done it myself.

HAHA!! I agree completely!

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #15 on: February 14, 2019, 03:04:12 PM »
I've learned that the wife is capable of driving around in a slow gear, a set throttle position and just clutch and brakes and steering to worry about. 

Disclaimer - your results may vary.  ;)
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #16 on: February 14, 2019, 05:18:55 PM »
I've learned that the wife is capable of driving around in a slow gear, a set throttle position and just clutch and brakes and steering to worry about. 

Disclaimer - your results may vary.  ;)

CLUTCH??

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2019, 07:38:43 AM »
HYDRO?? 

REAL tractors have a clutch.  8) :laugh: ;)
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2019, 02:27:59 PM »
HYDRO?? 

REAL tractors have a clutch.  8) :laugh: ;)
NOPE!! I've had both, I'll keep my HYDRO!!

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #19 on: February 16, 2019, 08:29:14 AM »
 ;D  For a loader tractor you can't beat a hydro, that's for sure.
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #20 on: February 16, 2019, 11:11:32 AM »
I was a die hard clutch person for many years until I got my first kubota...
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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2019, 01:03:28 PM »
Depends on what you are using the loader for, we tried the hydro trannys using them for stacking and loading hay, CLUTCHES worked many times better for us.

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Re: fire wood pallet
« Reply #22 on: February 16, 2019, 02:37:51 PM »
I was a die hard clutch person for many years until I got my first kubota...

I'm on my 3rd Kubota, first was a Gear, 2nd was a Glideshift, and this ones a Hydrostatic..