The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[Wlmedley]

Good looking repair g man. That's probably better than new.

[SwampDonkey]

Well I got the rest of last fall's firewood cutting stuffed away for next winter, 4.7 cords (600 cu feet) in the basement the last day and a half. The other 2.5 cord was stacked in January under the porch. Still cutting 4 more cords, 2 for the house 2 for the shop. Still 3 wheel barrel loads frozen in ice, to be picked up later.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Swamp,

Your post pushed me to finish 1 to do item I've been avoiding.  I took all the wood from my last 2 remaining wood racks and stacked that in my shed. The shed now has 5 cord for next year.  I did have some loss from my racks.  The covers had been leaking and I tossed a good buckets worth, either into the bonfire or the owb at the farm.  One of the reasons I went to sheds was to get away from that, so baring any leaks, shouldn't have that kind of waste anymore.  I do hate stacking, and that wood got stacked TWICE! One more thing off the list.  Both old racks are currently converting to coals in said bonefire

[SwampDonkey]

Smells like Christmas trees in here, the fir mixed in the stacks. 

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Did a lot of splitting and stacking and a little bit of cutting over the weekend

[doc henderson]

Nice.  I wish I could get my wife to stack that nice!

[barbender]

Never give up hope, Doc😂

[g_man]

Went out to where I cut and skidded out some firewood in the snow last month and picked up some tops and a dead beech.




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[SwampDonkey]

If it stays dry after lunch, I'm headed to the woodlot to cut some firewood to. 

[barbender]

Gman, is that simply a boom pole attached to a tractor skidding winch?

I'm curious because there is a handbook I've shared here before, originally from one of the Scandinavian countries on using an ag tractor for logging. Typical Scandinavian, they have really optimized the process to be efficient with limited resources, and they use a crane boom similar to your setup.

One thing I found really slick was their forestry trailer was set up with trip stakes on one side, and then a lever that is under the load that you attach the crane to. You wrap a chain to bundle the load, lift the lever, and roll the whole bundle off, then pull the wrapper chain.

New England woodlots are probably the most similar to theirs, or at least, there seems to be more small scale forestry management there.

[doc henderson]

I was thinking he did a thread on the build and maybe a video of it in action.  

[beenthere]

Thread showing up on page 88
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=115249.msg2056640#msg2056640

Also
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=99842.msg2045215#msg2045215

shows the wood mockup for pattern proof of concept.

[doc henderson]

yup, that is what I remember.  thanks!

[barbender]

I think my mind may be going🤦 I was even a part of the conversation on that thread😂

[SwampDonkey]

Brought home a buggy load of firewood this morning and one in the afternoon. That's 8 loads including yesterday on the trailer, 2 more makes a cord. Rain here now, so that put the brakes on firewood hauling for the day. So 12 more buggy loads for the shop. I'll probably have to put half of what's left to haul in the shop. I'd rather have it outside to dry, so I may come up with some planking. 20 more buggy loads for the house to follow. I haul out to a drier part of road and toss onto my trailer, 5 buggy loads is half a cord on there. That's all I want to pull with the little truck.

[SwampDonkey]

Two more buggy loads in today, that makes a cord in the shop woodshed. Hopefully will get the other cord in tomorrow with the trailer. I was tallying up the piles of wood, looks like 25 buggy loads on the ground, so will need to cut another 5-6 loads once I get the first bunch hauled in. I added capacity to the woodshed this morning for another 100 cu feet. Had a bunch of scrap lumber in the refuge pile for most of it, but two 2x4's.  Wind is a howling and sunny, good drying day.