New guy saying hello

[bartman]

New to this site. Its only proper to introduce yourself and say hello. Most in my small town call me by Bartman. Found this site and thought it would be beneficial as I and my oldest son burn firewood in our homes. I've been burning for 7 years. Just installed a different stove in my house last fall (a year ago) and my furnace never ran last winter and it was a hard winter here in Iowa. We have 3 saws, 2 stihl 029's and a 310. We built a nice wood hauling trailer complete with a splitter accross the tongue. Its in the process of getting upgraded right now. Mainly this year we have cut oak, red elm and hickory, but if the snow holds off long enough I just heard of a endless supply of black locust we would like to go after. Once I learn how to post up pictures I will. Looking forward to sharing as well as learning. If this is posted in the wrong area, feel free to move it, I didn't see a new guys intro anywhere.

[red oaks lumber]

welcome to the forum bartman

[drobertson]

Howdy bartman, glad you got in, I sure would like to see your trailor/combo splitter, that sounds like a good idea.
Real good idea.  I too hope this winter is more mild than last year.  But it is what it is.  Get that picture posting thing figured out, ;D   oh yea let us know what part of Iowa you're in,,  the locust has my attention.

[Magicman]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, bartman.

[Buddyw]

Welcome bartman .

[bartman]

Thanks for all the welcomes! They are talking rain for this weekend so maybe I'll take a break from cutting and try to post pictures.  Oh, and I live 26 miles sw of Dubuque Iowa

[slider]

Welcome Bartman .Thats a job heating with wood.

[thecfarm]

bartman,welcome to the forum.Lots of us burn wood. Lots of us have a sawmill too.  ;)

[Chuck White]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Bartman!

[sandhills]

Welcome to the forum Bartman.

[bartman]

 

 
thought I would try and post a photo for the first time and take a chance to show off my wood cutting rig

[bartman]

 

 
complete with splitter on it.

[bartman]

 

 
we started on this on a friday afternoon at about 5pm and had it done and painted by saturday night. I've done upgrades to it since, now I know how to post a photo I''ll take some pictures of the up grades and post them

[thecfarm]

There's a whole bunch of Chevy going on there.  ;D

[beenthere]

Good on the pics. 

[chain]

Welcome! I'm still on my second handle of my splitting mall.

[Swatson]

I like that combo trailer.  Good for splitting in the woods.  I do wish I had a good splitter.  Mine is temperamental.  It won't work in the cold, or on Sunday, or after dark.  Course I'm not as young as I used to be.

[bartman]

There's a whole bunch of Chevy going on there.  ;D

I got the bed for the trailer for free. I had the frame, it was a 78 heavy half ton. The 88 is my everyday driver/work/woodcuttin/all purpose truck. It probably is put together with half the parts coming from a junk yard.

[bartman]

I like that combo trailer.  Good for splitting in the woods.  I do wish I had a good splitter.  Mine is temperamental.  It won't work in the cold, or on Sunday, or after dark.  Course I'm not as young as I used to be.

Since these pictures I have done some upgrading to the splitter. It originally had a 1 stage pump and a 5 horse. I have added a 2 stage 11 gpm pump and a 8 horse motor. Also made the push block a little bigger and more hieght to the splitting edge. Still got more modifiying, once its all done I'll post up pictures of the improvements.

[Buckshot00]

Looking good.  Welcome.

[bartman]

We got a lot done tonight, I just posted a write up on the work in the firewood section. I did a write up with pictures of the improvements we made to the wood hauler in there, figured better to just post that here rather than posting the pictures twice, its under wood trailer/log splitter combo if anyone wants to check it out.