2018 Fire Wood Season Begins!!!

woodsdog2015 · April 02, 2018, 12:45:11 PM

Firewood season begins for me!!!

mike_belben · April 10, 2018, 12:49:48 AM

Same here. Unfortunately the money making part of it is about 9 months away.

Looking down on my 30ft trailer. those top chunks are about 28" diameter and 4ft long

Went back with the little trailer to clean up what i couldnt fit the first time.

Got 10x more to go.

thecfarm · April 10, 2018, 06:34:01 AM

woodsdog,I can see some snow,but have to look for it. Snow is melting here,that means the ground is soft. I have been out some,but don't want to make a mess of my land. Won't be long and I will be able to go where I want. There are some wet spots I need to keep away from until about late June.

mike_belben · April 10, 2018, 07:45:24 AM

You havent got then filled with fieldstone yet?

sprucebunny · April 10, 2018, 08:19:13 AM

I've been working on it, too. Cutting to keep my view. All the wood is over an embankment.

Is that a Honda 420 ?

brianJ · April 10, 2018, 08:21:25 AM

Season 18/19 Already have delivered a little. That guy is my biggest and most flexible customer for taking delivery so he gets a discount. Works at my scale. A mile up the road is a clear cut done last year. The unmarketable logs are piled up and bark getting loose. Thats good because it has been given to me and plenty of mud on them.

mike_belben · April 10, 2018, 10:18:51 PM

I let most wood lay until it gets a little wormy and undresses itself. Everything here tends to have had poison ivy or oak on it.

upnut · April 11, 2018, 06:57:39 AM

Looks good! Now you need to throw a trailer behind your quad! My Grizzly wouldn't know how to act without a trailer behind it.......

Have fun!

Scott B.

petefrom bearswamp · April 11, 2018, 08:36:41 AM

Here is our firewood staging area.
The stacked wood was cut late last summer into fall for 2018-2019.
The tree length will be for 2019-2020.

r.man · April 11, 2018, 09:39:55 AM

Pete do the first piles get used as is or recut?

DDW_OR · April 11, 2018, 10:15:03 AM

had a mild winter here in Oregon. With the Central Boiler 750 i used 2.5 cords of Madrona
Madrona is about the same as Oak.

so i will cut 5 cords for the winter of 2018-2019

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:11:10 PM

Quote from: sprucebunny on April 10, 2018, 08:19:13 AM
I've been working on it, too. Cutting to keep my view. All the wood is over an embankment.

Is that a Honda 420 ?

Sprucebunny, yep a manual tranny 420 Rancher. Good four wheeler, It owes me absolutely nothing.

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:19:28 PM

Quote from: thecfarm on April 10, 2018, 06:34:01 AM
woodsdog,I can see some snow,but have to look for it. Snow is melting here,that means the ground is soft. I have been out some,but don't want to make a mess of my land. Won't be long and I will be able to go where I want. There are some wet spots I need to keep away from until about late June.

Believe it or not but where I was cutting just three weeks prior was about 2ft or so of snow. Then we had some rain then just sun but not really warmer weather appreciably but it was enough to melt most of the stuff off. We had a tough long winter and then February reversed itself with March and it made me have to really scrounge for some late winter wood to keep my house warm. I bow shot the biggest buck of my life right about where my wheeler is parked about 15 years ago. He green scored 132 7/8 Pope and Young points but I didn't enter him in the books. Right behind me about 50 yards is a huge gorge with a creek that enters into Lake Erie.

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:24:11 PM

Quote from: upnut on April 11, 2018, 06:57:39 AM
Looks good! Now you need to throw a trailer behind your quad! My Grizzly wouldn't know how to act without a trailer behind it.......

Have fun!

Scott B.

Scott, yep your wood pile is much bigger then mine but I'm working on it. I do have a little trailer that hauls about a half a face cord of split chunks and about 3 to 4 big rounds at a time. I'm thinking of taking my splitter up to the wood this time instead of taking the wood down to the splitter and hopefully I won't devastate the trails too bad. I need to change out the tires on my trailer to more like atv tires as the ones I have are narrow and don't float on top of snow or soft ground... they dig in under load. Which is a real PITA!!!! I keep telling my wife I need a tractor... some day.

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:27:28 PM

Quote from: DDW_OR on April 11, 2018, 10:15:03 AM
had a mild winter here in Oregon. With the Central Boiler 750 i used 2.5 cords of Madrona
Madrona is about the same as Oak.

so i will cut 5 cords for the winter of 2018-2019

DDW, what part of Oregon? I have relatives in Eugene and Keizer.

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:38:49 PM

Quote from: mike_belben on April 10, 2018, 12:49:48 AM
Same here. Unfortunately the money making part of it is about 9 months away.

Looking down on my 30ft trailer. those top chunks are about 28" diameter and 4ft long

Went back with the little trailer to clean up what i couldnt fit the first time.

Got 10x more to go.

Yeah you're at a much large scale then me.... nice big stuff too. I'm lucky where I'm cutting my buddy had it timbered and the cull trees and the tops are numerous so I'm grateful to have this available to me. Feeling a little overwhelmed with my puny operation but I'll chunk away at it. I'm bucking it up now and stacking then i'll go back and split and haul it down to my truck. My issue is the wood is about a good half mile or better back from the nearest road so I then have to haul it down to my truck to get it home.

woodsdog2015 · April 11, 2018, 11:42:44 PM

Petefrombearswamp,

Very cool thanks for sharing! You have 30 years on me and your woodpiles are still bigger

:D

mike_belben · April 12, 2018, 10:44:31 AM

Yeah i started out with a nissan pickup truck and everything by hand about 10yrs ago before i moved down south. It'll use you up.

Im workin the bobcat for free right now for the practice, refining my equipment to do top cleanup with just one machine. The job is close, easy and i can come and go as i please with the boy so it makes sense for now. A few sawlogs have atleast covered the fluids.

i am trying to setup for that zone in between logging and tree service. Need to meet a developer who is building houses on patches of woods and wants one guy to do it all. Log, cleanup, driveway, drainage and pad. hoping im ready when both kids are in school soon.

DDW_OR · April 12, 2018, 11:27:05 AM

Quote from: woodsdog2015 on April 11, 2018, 11:27:28 PM
Quote from: DDW_OR on April 11, 2018, 10:15:03 AM
had a mild winter here in Oregon. With the Central Boiler 750 i used 2.5 cords of Madrona
Madrona is about the same as Oak.

so i will cut 5 cords for the winter of 2018-2019
DDW, what part of Oregon? I have relatives in Eugene and Keizer.

SW corner on I-5 exit 80
Glendale

petefrom bearswamp · April 13, 2018, 08:50:51 AM

Rman, The stacked and randomly piled wood goes in the classic as is.I transport it with my Kubota RTV 900.
Woodsdog, I do however have lots of help with the wood which is for me and my son.
He is now retired and helps at the mill also.
Grandson helps when he is available.