Yesterday I took the tractor and trailer round to gather some piles of firewood I’d felled and cut up in January and February. Some of these were right next to the rides and easy to get to, but a couple were way off any of the rides behind tangles of brambles and fallen branches. Despite this, I was able to get the tractor in by finding a roundabout route since it’s narrow enough to get through gaps and has enough power to get over smaller logs and stumps.
This winter I started cutting the logs to their final length again after a couple of years of doing that step in the Barn. This is a bit of a tradeoff between transporting the wood in convenient four foot lengths but then having an additional handling step of cutting them down to the 8 inch logs I now burn. By making the original piles of logs in places I can get to with the tractor and trailer, I think it’s easier for me to cut them up in situ. It also means I can skip knotty bits and leave them behind as deadwood. I mostly use a Fiskars hookaroon to load the trailer too, so I’m not bending down all the time.
In the pictures are a Handy trailer that I use, instead of the four wheeled garden trolley I used for years. The body of the Handy is pretty good but the supplied pneumatic wheels are only good enough for garden use. I ended up replacing them with heavy duty wheels with solid rubber tyres.