While it isn't recommended, I purchased a set of skidding tongs from Harbor Freight and use them to pick up rounds to place on the log splitter with the FEL on the tractor. I then split & toss the splits in the bucket, using the bucket to put the splits inside the storage shed where I then stack them.
Scott -
I'm sure neither of us would make it through an OSHA audit at home (I somehow made it successfully every time, for many years, while still in my real job running a rather large DoD manufacturing facility.)
I regularly use one or two log tongs, chained to the tooth bar on my tractor's front end loader, to move and stack large logs (20-inch x 12-16 foot) into piles.
It probably ain't really safe, but I'm not young anymore. Maybe it is pure luck. Maybe it is just paying attention to.dangerous situations.
Ken
