The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[doc henderson]

yes I suppose a 4 way could get into you fingers.

[jimbarry]

Hey Jim, thanks as always for bringing us along. What are you using for saw pivot? I can't tell, almost looks like a bracket bolted on via the bar nuts?

Similar to this one.

[Mooseherder]

Your customer is going to be asking for more beech next season. :D

[woodroe]

Wish I could get my wife to help with the firewood. 
She did run the control lever on the splitter for a few minutes once
but I've never seen her lift a stick of wood. Some guys have all the luck !

[barbender]

My wife enjoys running our firewood processor. 

[711ac]

I thought I put it on bare ground


Guess not, something melted. 😆

[woodroe]

Had a 1/2 cord stack fall over too but 5 other 1/2 cord stacks are 
going to make it. So 5 for 6 on the winter.  ;D

[jimbarry]

I thought I put it on bare ground


Guess not, something melted. 😆

It doesn't take much. The first year we built single row crates. It wasn't long before we started making double row crates.

[jimbarry]

 

 

[beenthere]

Frozen ground melts on the exposed-to-the-sun side and turns to mud as well as settles. Result is tipping toward the exposed side. 

Also, the firewood end grain that is exposed loses moisture below fsp and that end shrinks causing some accumulated results that will lean the stacked wood towards that exposed end. 

After awhile, the whole stack leans out enough to tip over. 

[711ac]

I thought I put it on bare ground


Guess not, something melted. 😆

It doesn't take much. The first year we built single row crates. It wasn't long before we started making double row crates.

It's the first one that that I lost. It was made about 4-5 weeks ago and @beenthere was right about the sunny side, not to mention the deep snow between the racks. 
I have success drying in a year to the point that my boiler likes it. Too much dryer and I get a huffing. Not great for an inside boiler. 👍

[snobdds]

Wish I could get my wife to help with the firewood.
She did run the control lever on the splitter for a few minutes once
but I've never seen her lift a stick of wood. Some guys have all the luck !

Mine has never either.

In fact she let me build a cabin in the mountains so I can play with my wood in the summer.  

It was a good trade.  She's been to the cabin exactly once since I built it 10 years ago.  ;D

[upnut]

Started processing the twelve loads of firewood logs, it's gonna be a slog for two old guys. My share gets tucked in the wood shed, I'm about three years ahead already. 



 

Scott B.

[cutterboy]

Every stack of firewood wants to fall over. That is it's life's goal.

[PoginyHill]

I feel your pain @711ac 



 

[jimbarry]

End of an afternoon of splitting. 




 

[upnut]

Spent the day on ice storm clean up with my 16 year old hired hand. He started his first chainsaw lessons with me today, so I got the sawbuck set up as a first time operators area. He started with the MSA 120 C, basic safety and operational stuff. We then stepped up to the MSA 200 C that I picked up last week. We bucked up a dump trailer load of limbwood and still had 3 out of 4 bars of power available. I really like the new saw. We also fell and bucked four 10"DBH pine with the MS241, so he got a couple lessons with the Logrite cant hook and hookaroon. A good day all around....


 


 

Scott B.

[jimbarry]

Another firewood day on the books.



 

I had said there might be two cords in the pile.

20230401 Making sawdust - YouTube

Turns out there were two cords and about 6-7 more pieces left on the ground. Not too bad a guess.

[jimbarry]

 

 


  

[711ac]

Jim you have gotten me very interested in your blue splitter, or at least this "style".
I stand upright at my splitter and also push the wedge through the wood and don't chase the wood for the next split. But thinking of a large, smooth "table" to slide around heavy rounds sure seems appealing. 
I'm just wondering how my 26" lengths would be keeping upright especially towards the end (smaller pieces) of the process. Of course much of the time I only halve or quarter the rounds anyway. 
I hate arguing with myself. 😆

[jimbarry]

Jim you have gotten me very interested in your blue splitter, or at least this "style".
I stand upright at my splitter and also push the wedge through the wood and don't chase the wood for the next split. But thinking of a large, smooth "table" to slide around heavy rounds sure seems appealing.
I'm just wondering how my 26" lengths would be keeping upright especially towards the end (smaller pieces) of the process. Of course much of the time I only halve or quarter the rounds anyway.
I hate arguing with myself. 😆

When it comes to unmanageable pieces (crooked end cut or knotty wood or twisty grain) I lay the piece flat and split the side of it along the grain.

20230408 Splitting a wacky birch - YouTube

[jimbarry]

20230409 Splitting away the rot - YouTube

[upnut]

Work in the log yard continues, the lift crane on the dump trailer comes in handy....


 

We repaid our neighbor for the use of his trailer by blocking up two loads of poles plus whatever he has dragged up over winter. Two saws and a backhoe with clam bucket made quick work of it. The Bota Buggy met his match.....


 

Scott B.

[GRANITEstateMP]

I had a good sized pile of 22in oversized wood. Got the wifes uncle to use the skid steer and BlueDiamond splitter to quarter them up.  He didn't tell me he was gonna do it today so it was a nice surprise.

still got a bit more splitting to do. This wood is for winter 24-25

[711ac]

I'm also working on 24-25 firewood. My woods are just getting bare and dry in some areas. Cut this wagon load of Beech.

It suprises me how dry it (the beech) seems for the date and weather, I thought it would be dripping wet with sap.
I moved the firewood operation out of the sawmill building. That was very handy this winter. This past winter was the first since it got finished.

I'm hoping to finish soon. The warmer weather is tempting me to get on to other projects.