The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[KEC]

DonP, It's people like you with a sense of civic duty thats good to hear about, not sitting back waiting for someone else to do what needs to be done. As to wood that's stubborn to dry, I have a few things for dealing with it. I tend to cut it up into shorter peices as a lot of water comes out of the ends. Stack it where it gets a lot of sun and air. Get it into my heated basement early in the heating season where it's warm and dry. Don't be in a hurry to burn it and use it for overnight fires to carry the fire. I'll take all the Red Oak that anyone wants to drop off here.

[Don P]

I appreciate it KEC and it has sort of been on my mind as we have talked about the younger generation. I was raised to get the door open and be the last one through it. My wife has commented several times, I don't think they teach civics anymore and home training ain't what it used to be. I am delighted those old folks stayed home for another cup of coffee.

Back on topic, I scored a 3"dbh standing bone dry locust on the way back up the driveway tonite, the peasants are toasty 

[Wlmedley]

Cut this red oak a couple weeks ago.Been working on it a little at a time. Finished splitting it up today. Plan on putting it in my new wood shed I built last year. Was hoping to sell shed but it didn't happen and a empty wood shed is a sad looking thing.

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like a nice jag of wood as we call it up this way. 

[Big_eddy]

It was sunny and I could see the splits pile from the log pile when we started today. Not so much later on.
I'm sure our neighbours think we are crazy, but it was actually a very pleasant day for cutting. We stayed out a couple of hours after the snow started.

[thecfarm]

My neighbors think I am crazy because all I do is "work" around here. 
But then the next thing they say, Is how good it looks around here.

[barbender]

SD, although not a legal unit of measurement, we also have "jags" around here.

[upnut]

Neighbor sold 25 Walnut trees from his woodlot, said clean up all you want. Cold overnight temps let brother and I get in with smaller rigs to do just that...



It was a trashy woods to start with, will be a challenge.

Scott B.

[SwampDonkey]

SD, although not a legal unit of measurement, we also have "jags" around here.

It's actually defined in the dictionary. Not as a unit of measure, but as a 'small load', which could be wood, hay, rocks, or fish cakes for that matter. :D  Then there is a twitch of wood, which is usually behind a horse or skidder, but again no volume defined. 

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Around here a "twitch" is a skid of logs pulled by a draft horse or mule.     Somebody might ask a horse logger, "How far is it to your neighbors house?"    And the horse logger might reply "About three good twitches."      A twitch being the distance of either the whole skid to the landing, or however far the horse or mule can pull until it needs a breather.  
My granddad used horses in the woods and referred to distance in twitches all the time.

Not to go off rails from the topic here but some of my Amish friends still talk in "rods, which are 16.5 ft.", and  "chains, 66ft."   

[beenthere]

Rods and chains are land measuring terms. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)#History

[newoodguy78]

One of my brothers is a licensed surveyor. He's told me several times some of the most accurate surveys he's followed behind were originally done using the rod and chain measurements. Every time it's said with amazement and almost disbelief. 

Just shakes his head when I ask him how much he paid for the top notch gps gear he has 

[SwampDonkey]

I've used expensive GPS $9000-12000 in todays dollars and have also used $600-800 GPS units to measure silviculture areas. Have never had a dispute in 25 years between them and those paying for the area measured. None I've used are considered surveyor grade, but we are not doing land surveys. We are only measuring areas that can be anywhere within the bounds of a property. And there a lots and lots of property line disputes, some not even in the same spot as they are on a map. One authority tells the other they aren't legally responsible for errors? Who is? :D

Now my brother is a flat earther type, claims you can see shore to shore across the largest distance across the Great Lakes.  Was fed bogus math. According to him you can see hundreds of miles. :D Heck on ocean front your only suppose to be able to see around 3 miles to the horizon on the rolling sea. Of course it's different if you're 100 feet on a cliff over the ocean looking at a 8000 ft high mountain on an Island. The mountain top is above the horizon. This is the type of stuff James Randi and Carl Sagan warned is the rot infesting society, especially Randi. My brother was always a sucker for flim flam.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Rods and chains are land measuring terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(unit)#History

Ahh yup, sure are.   Along with links, sections, furlongs and more.  But you dont hear them used much any more.

[SwampDonkey]

I've read old deeds here from the King Edward days that were rods and chains. We adopted metric in the 70's so old imperial units were dropped anyway.

[Don P]

 "One and one half cigars N." 

[GRANITEstateMP]

When I worked for the town we were replacing and extending a culvert and tuning up a drainage swale.  Before we got started my boss had me double check property boundrys, there were two references to rods on one of he documents.  Luckily my buddys dad was in town hall that day and he pointed me in the right direction!

[GRANITEstateMP]

All of the oversized and ugly logs that aren't for the processor get put to the side.  Yesterday I cut them to 22in lengths


Today it was split time! Most of these are big, so we quarter the whole lot of them with the skid steer mounted splitter.  Any that need extra splitting will be taken care of while we're loading up the dump trailer. Most of this will be going toward my 2025-2026 burning season pile



kinda ran out of daylight at the end!

[SwampDonkey]

22" wood is my size for furnace wood. 

[cutterboy]

   This red maple had to come down because it was in the way of a large pine I was cutting down.




I went after this old black birch that was on it's way out. It had lost it's top at some point and was rotting from the top down. I cut three 8' logs which will go for firewood and filled my firewood carrier with 16" rounds.


My stash of firewood logs.

  Keep on cutting.....Cutter

Thanks Doc!

[doc henderson]

cutter, if it were me, I might try the modify button under "more" and see if some backspacing can be done to tighten things up.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

These three pics of this afternoons work tell me something.   
I really got to start taking the tractor with the forks to these jobs so that I can load them in 10 ft lengths instead of by hand.   Take the time,  move the machine, save my back. 
That's why the good lord gave us hydraulics.
And, a little processor would be the bees knees.   

[Al_Smith]

On open  seas the vision range is around 7 miles not three .On the ocean it's as plain as the south end of a north bound goat the world is not flat like a pan cake .--which BTW has nothing to do with fire wood ,just trivia .

[Don P]

"One and one half cigars N." 

Nobody bit  , that was an actual callout on an early NC survey a friend had to rectify. We were wondering, big, small, on horseback or on foot?

[SwampDonkey]

On open  seas the vision range is around 7 miles not three .On the ocean it's as plain as the south end of a north bound goat the world is not flat like a pan cake .--which BTW has nothing to do with fire wood ,just trivia .

Depends on your elevation.

1.22 x square root(6 feet) = ~3 miles to the horizon if standing on shore with the water lapping your feet

1.22 x square root (30 feet) = 6.7 miles to the horizon.

On top of mount Everest 1.22 x square root ( 29,029 feet) =  208 miles

Big difference when you're on the deck of a boat versus standing on the beach. :D