How'd it go today?

[flushcut]

“Splitter birds” little schnibbels that fly away?

 

[cory]

A lot of wood splitting at home.

Nice!

By hand or machine?

 

[davidwyby]

I have actually considered dragging a load of big rounds up to the mountains where it’s cooler to split for exercise.

 

[SeanKroll]

Splitter bits.. autocorrect and no reading glasses... The little pieces of wood that fall from big pieces when they don't split cleanly along the grain.

I like hand splitting. My body says "yes" for a while, then my wrists and runs will hurt for a few days, so machine splitting with a 4-way wedge.

 

[SkwerI]

Recently I began considering trading my 18' tandem axle trailer for a 14' single axle tilt trailer. I have a long list of advantages and only 2 disadvantages. First of all, I have had 2 accidents in the last year with the 18' trailer. Maybe my age or maybe I am just not as good of a driver as I think I am. But the constant tire issues, banging stuff with the fenders, and dealing with the ramps every time I unload are all irritations for me.
I am looking at a 14' single axle, 7000 lb capacity tilt trailer. I would need to build a frame mounted rack over the front of the bed to hold my extra attachments that I currently carry in the front of my trailer. I also have a few other mods to customize the trailer exactly how I want it, nothing too crazy. I can sell my current trailer for about $2k I think. New one will be about $4000 plus modifications. Here is a link to the trailer I am looking at (Alabama dealer has it for $1000 less than local dealer). Equipment Trailers for Sale Leeds Alabama | Trailer Dealer | 4RATU1413SG016842
Pics of my current trailer.View attachment 145649View attachment 145650

I just realized I never updated you guys on my new trailer. After buying it, I had the rack built and several other mods. I added a step on either side for my gimp ass top get up easier, I have a holder in the front for my cheater pipe for closing my chain binders, I added a mounting plate for a small bench vise for sharpening saws and I moved the spare tire mount to one of the rear stake pockets to rebalance the tilt deck (adding the rack to the front frame actually put weight on the front of the tilt deck).

I am super happy with how it turned out. My fuel mileage has gone up from 5.4 to over 6mpg and it is so much easier without having to deal with ramps every time I load or unload.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looks great Brian!

 

[WoodCutr]

Chipper has been parked infront of the shop for weeks waiting on me to get the drive to go do more work on it

walked by it today and noticed the entire bottom of the infeed table is covered in cracks, looks like the torch is coming out tonight and some slightly major welding is about to take place, practically have to rebuild the whole table, its bent so I welded it open a few years ago, and I'm just about to go all the way with making it a fully reinforced welded feed table since it'll never shut right anyways

 

[treebilly]

Today was nasty humid. I welcomed the storms that moved in. Was able to end the day and felt great getting rained on. Had a great view as I was standing the boom up to catch a slight breeze.
I was fetching a broken top while the guys were continuing the wild cherry genocide on this job. You can see the nice firewood pile we have started there.