The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[mudfarmer]

My stove has a pretty hard 16" cutoff or things get ugly, and other people also expect consistency but I am still bucking by hand (no processor) So I do it like Hilltop but for every block. Attaching things to the saw, marking separately, using a stick, eyeballing, none have worked out great for me whether too slow or cumbersome or bad eyeballing 

Been cleaning up dump truck loads of butts, shorts and offcuts that are in the way. Would like to fire the driver that just dumped them everywhere but then I would be out of work.

[Hilltop366]

I have only cut for myself and the boiler and splitter will go up to 24" so I do have a bit of lead way.

It probably would be different cutting to sell.

[mudfarmer]

Mr. Fred Fakename had three or four pieces that were longer than the rest out of a cord and he made sure I knew it 

[Magicman]

I have bucked many different lengths and can gauge the lengths well enough, but it is just so nice when they are all the same.  When we used an open fireplace I bucked @26"-28".  With a ledger stick I can fudge one way or the other with limb forks before I ever get there so that there are never any surprises.

My fireplace insert door opening is 19" so I mark @ 17".  I can easily handle anything from 14" to 20".

[doc henderson]

My stove will take over 24 inches sideways, or 16 inches front to back.  It looks nice stacked on the rack on the back porch if they are somewhat uniform.  If the fire is raging the 16 inches front to back is easier to get in without a jam that holds the door open or get hot on the hands.

[NE Woodburner]

Inverted tip marking paint that is made for marking underground utilities.

This is what the Mingo marker uses. There are different size wheels to mark the length you want. A ramp on the wheel triggers a spot of paint every time it comes around. I cut mine at 18", but I have wheels for other sizes. You can mark a whole log very quickly.

[Magicman]

I am not familiar with the Mingo, but I have a trigger pull "wand" that a can snaps into which is used for marking buried utilities without bending over.

Funny but my Florescent Green is the color used for marking sewer lines. 

[doc henderson]

It is a plastic tractor wheel of different diameters with a cam that sprays a dot of paint, onto the log.  the bigger wheels make longer spaces. 

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[Hilltop366]

It all looks the same length when it comes out of the stove.

[NE Woodburner]

It all looks the same length when it comes out of the stove.

Similar to what Dad used to tell me when I complained about handling crooked firewood limbs as a kid - "it all makes straight ash".

We did everything by hand, so I much preferred splitting nice, straight grained oak or ash logs. He used to take every limb down to almost pencil sized. I drop trees and cut tops and pull the logs and large limbs out with my tractor and winch. I leave a lot of small stuff in the woods now and I often think about what Dad would have to say about that.

[Magicman]

This may not seem like too much for you less than 80 youngsters, but I was ready for a break after bucking these limbs.


I went through 3 tanks of chainsaw gas getting it done.  Now I gotta load the tractor bucket and haul it to the woodpile for splitting.


Another advantage of using a ledger stick.  Just stick it through the debris, mark, and then trim it all off when I come back bucking.

[doc henderson]

this is nice if a few folks are bucking.  I agree that after you have rounds laying on the ground, you can eyeball them.  also, you may fudge one-way or another with limbs and knots.

[Magicman]

Well, I did done it:


The last bucket load of rounds about ready to go to the wood pile.  My Hand Tongs and Logrite Hookaroon "gathering tools" sneaked into the picture.


Heck-of-a-whack of rounds ready to be split and/or wheel barrowed to the firewood shed.  Lotsa work for da old man. 

Weather permitting, I will be sawing Monday.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

mudfarmer try one of these.  Get em BOTH.  Green and red. On bright sunny days ya can't hardly see the red, but the green one only lasts half as long on the battery.  
I was skeptical but I use these and my cuts are all within a half inch of 16inchs now. 


https://westcoastsaw.com/products/firewood-prosizer?variant=43321892733158&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4MSzBhC8ARIsAPFOuyVXTH__2bIwW6BqUoXm_6CXkxQ_imKJzWCujKNaHoEpLuI1HhkG63oaAs3-EALw_wcB

[jimbarry]

Recent goings on in the wood yard, over the previous 30 days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsRkf7HDlTw

[mudfarmer]

Hey thanks BCC that's pretty neat 

[cutterboy]

Jim, that was fun. Thanks.

[woodroe]

Sometimes its easier and saves a step to buck and split the wood where you find it. Especially when its smaller wood all in a tangle within 30' . Leaves the mess in the woods too, falling off bark in this case being mostly dead blowdowns.

[woodroe]

Finally got some temps decent enough to buck up some wood. Low 70s with a dry westerly wind hardly broke a sweat. Had my Husky 359 in the shop awhile back for a carb adjustment and it never missed a beat. Was bogging down before. Thats an American Elm in the left side background. Surprised the bugs haven't killed it yet. They did get the one closer.

[thecfarm]

You need some pallets to put your wood on. That "wood" save some work.

[g_man]

That's a nice pile of wood woodroe.  I still run a 359 too. A good saw - Don't hear about them much anymore.

gg

[woodroe]

Agree on the good saw g man.
 They went out of production in 2011.
The shop guys think highly of that particular saw. Mine is probably 20
years old. I typically grab the lighter 450 but for the bigger dia. stuff that's been twitched out of the woods the 359
rips through it like butter.

[mudfarmer]

Still have my 359, love that saw 

I tried out the laser guidance system that @B.C.C. Lapp recommended on a log pile the other day and it works pretty slick 

[g_man]

Agree on the good saw g man.
 They went out of production in 2011.
The shop guys think highly of that particular saw. Mine is probably 20
years old. I typically grab the lighter 450 but for the bigger dia. stuff that's been twitched out of the woods the 359
rips through it like butter.

I run a 24" bar and skip chain on mine and call it my big saw       Which it is and suits what I do just fine.

gg

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Glad it worked for you mudfarmer.  It isn't as accurate as a processor would be but for us guys that either don't really need one or cant quite swing a processor yet it gets most pieces awful close to the length we're after.

Edit to ad that I'll bet if the guy selling these laser's became a sponsor here he'd sell some product.   Think of how many firewood cutters come and go around here on a regular basis.