Posted by Adirondack case guy on August 09, 2017 at 17:09:34 from (69.207.198.19):
Well, I finally got headed to the woods to bring home the first trailer load of fire wood for the season. I have had problems with my 99 dodge 1500 starting on damp days. Today wasn't damp but it still would not start. Finally found a bad wire where it plugs into a coil down on athe RH front of the 318. Fixed that and it started rite up. I have to drive the tractor, splitter and elevator up to the landing and wifey fallows me in the Dodge, and then I come home and get the other 430 and wood trailer. Still the trio of Me, Myself, and I, during the week. Got things set up at landing about 11:30 and finished off the load about 4:00. Took a lunch break about noon and had to take a couple other breaks during the afternoon. Can't work like I used to. I built the gin pole and grapple to lift the heavy blocks. I can't lift the big ones anymore either. It has a HF 2500# winch to provide lifting power and I built a tray in the splitter frame to hold a group 31 12V battery. I just throw the charger on it overnight when I have worked it hard, It also works great when I am blocking logs, to pull them out of the piles that I buck up with the Kubota B2150 and loader. I have the splitter mounted on 430 3pt hitch so the bed can be adjusted to my waist heith. No bending or working on knees like with a horizontal splitter or other close to the ground splitters. The splitter is built to push the blocks through the wedge, so the split pieces just drop off the end of the custom bed that I built, and into the elevator. Elevator chain only runs when the splitter cylinder bottoms in retracted position, and I hold the lever. Don't need it to be running all the time. I decided not to take my new bigger wood trailer and 830 up today, as I got a late start. Things went pretty good, except for the trip home. I had a spare tire on the RH side with 45# of air, but sidewall let loose. I guess I will go to my tire dealer tomorrow morning and check out some options. Old used LT truck tires aren't cutting it. My new bigger trailer has new ST235/80R16 12 ply trailer tires on it, and I hoped to use one of them to get the little trailer home but the tire wouldn't fit under the fender. Oh well at least the tire blew on the farm road. Loren
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