Twitching out some firewood for Dad this weekend:
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That tractor must have one beefy rear end on it to handle that weight.
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It’s up there with the Cub Cadet rear end. Pros and cons between the two. Cast iron, this one has the 1 1/8" axles. Three speed with a high low gear. Those are two dry dead pine logs so really not that heavy. Does useable work and a pleasure to own especially the older I get…
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Felt good to get out side for a change. Dragged out some blow overs from the last wind storm. I can hear the next one moving in…
This is when the lights were going out.
Haven’t fired up in a few months and it didn’t want to start on the first pull. Had to richen the carb up a bit, wonder if it was the cold weather or maybe I should have fanned it more… Oh well…
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Jeff; Is that a pine “plantation” ( an area planted with pines ) How do you not have a bunch of young saplings growing between the trees? We have plantains that were planted 50-60 years ago. Every 10 years or so they go in and cut out every other tree to allow the remaing ones to grow taller. In the meant time cones fall to the ground and it is full of your saplings.TomC
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It looks like it was planted with a cabbage planter and then left to die off because nobody bothered to care for it. I would say that about 90% will die off or more. Almost no seedlings because of lack of light. Also poor site for pine. Trying to plant trees but not much of a green thumb do I have. Haven’t had much luck with black locus. Norway spruce has a good survival rate but only grows about an inch a year. Aspen is growing nice on it’s own. Some hope for black willow. I need bamboo right now…!
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I always liked this video:
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I want one of those mule thingy’s that would be cool
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Anyone have any details on building tracks like these?
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They kinda look like the old cleated snowmobile tracks Al. They would have to be spliced to get them that long. The cleats are just riveted to flat belting. you would need bigger than snowmobile tabs welded on the inside to keep them tracking on tires while turning. I have plenty here I would give away to anyone wanting to build a set. I had a guy give me a trailer full. I use them for mats driving over wet areas. I have enough for about 100 yards x2
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Thanks Jim, wonder what shipping would be? Where do you live? Are they very heavy?
Baler belting might also work. Of course there is also chain and strap.
Then there is this design:
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Al Check out “tracked vehicles” on youtube. There are quite a few examples. Some of them take a tractor tire and cut the sidewalls out and us just the tread. I took care of the cross country ski groups tracked vehicles that they used to groom the ski trails. They were just belting material with cross bars bolted on. The cross bars did have two small right angle pieces welded to the bars — as the bar went over the tire one angle was on the outside of the tire and the other was on the inside of the tire. The triangles were mounted so that the point of the base and the hypotenuse sides were pointing into the tire. That allowed the track to pull off center a bit with out gouging into the tire. The tire could just kind of ride up on the slope and force the track back into alignment The bars were spaced to fit in the cogs of a rubber drive gear…TomC
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This is an ELL track for skid steers. OTT is over tire track.
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This is my favorite. Maybe a bit what TomC is refering to.
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Darn you guys that post youtube stuff. At the end of what you post there rare always more suggestion of stuff they think we might want to see. After watching the above posting I had to go on and watch about another hour and a half of you tubes that were suggested. Past my bed timeTomC
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Tom, same here. Just got back to DOW.
Keep on Gasifiing. Bob
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Yup, youtube is almost as adictive as gasification 
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Al I am in NW WI. 50 miles south of Duluth MN. Where are you? I try to make it out east every spring around Argos time. Maybe earlier this year and make Argos a separate trip. Taking 10 days away from home Argos time the past 2 years has not been good for my food production.
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I am in northern WV near Fairmont