The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[cutterboy]

Thanks Mike. Thanks Bruno. I've brought out four loads with it so far and am vary happy with it. It's going back in the woods today.

[SwampDonkey]

Great idea. I've seen the old ND hermit (Mark Bernstein) use it for firewood to on his Belarus, if he ain't got the M37 down in the woods. ;D

[cutterboy]

Today in the woods...red maple and black birch.


 

 

 

 
  Happy cutting.....Cutter

[HemlockKing]

Keep on cuttin 

[Corley5]

Five face cords for us.  Neighbor fella is coming in the morning to get started stacking it in the shed while I run another load.



 

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like the snow is coming in sideways. Hurry up with the stacking. ;D :D

[cutterboy]

Snow before Thanksgiving is an insult from Mother Nature. It's just raining here so I guess she is not angry with us here. ;D :D  It is  going to clear up this afternoon then turn cold with a northwest wind. Stoking up the fires!

[Corley5]

First snow day of the season for Zander.  We didn't get a lot.  Enough for the roads to ice over and be treacherous.  Supposed to warm up tomorrow thru Thursday before it gets cold again.  I've got a water line project that needs to be done.  That's on the docket starting tomorrow morning.

[Corley5]

  Oak isn't popular around here   Ash works for people who didn't get wood soon enough but a lot of people prefer other wood.  Good ash is getting harder to find now.  It's been dead too long.  Black cherry and soft maple is on the less desirable list as well.  Sugar maple and beech is preferred and beech is on the way out now too  :(  Scale has and is taking a toll.

[Bricklayer51]

corley i got 5 or 6 ash out back that had leaves on this summer

[SwampDonkey]

Maple, beech (if you can get it sound) and yellow birch is all people want up here to. Beech scale has devastated most beech in my area. No one even wants ash or red maple. And our ash is not dying, yet. Up in the far NW corner of NB that reaches over the top of Maine is the good beech here. Colder winter. I was in a stand of wood a few years ago and someone had taken all the maple out over the years. What was left standing was some pretty pathetic beech, mostly dead and rotten. It's now another 50 acres of potato field added onto another 100 acres beside it. A stark contrast to a 50 acre track up north of here that had huge smooth beech back 20 years ago, again more potato field now.

I wish I was cutting more firewood, but I don't need it for some time. When I see cold hard rain coming down this time of year I am not long switching gears on that. :D Hopefully, I can get some pole pruning done to my high grade fir. Should have that electric pole pruner here in a couple days for a test drive. Happy firewood trails. ;)

[Dragline]

Split,  stack, repeat.  Beautiful day here in southern Arkansas to put up some firewood. 


 

 

[Bruno of NH]

I'm trying to get my last sales out for the year then need to add to my own stock.
Still sold a lot of firewood even with the mills sales being so busy.

[sublime68charger]

not a pic of firewood today but firewood carrier,  the one on the right I have had for 5 years just got the one on the left from ebay this week any body else ever seen these or used them?
Gifford Wood Company New York stamped on them.  Its super nice for picking up firewood save you from bending all the way over to pick up wood on the ground.

 

[John Mc]

I use the modern version of those firewood tongs. This is the smaller of two sizes that Husqvarna sells, with an 8" (20cm) max opening. I regularly use it to pick up logs of up to +/-12" diameter. (They also make a tool with 12" max opening, but I find that size inconvenient to carry in the woods, and if I need to pick up a log larger than wht the 8" tongs will handle, I'm usually using some other method to move it.)
 

I use them for loading rounds into the splitter, as well as for dragging and repositioning longer logs when working in the woods. I was constantly setting them down and forgetting where I had left them until I got a holster to carry them in. The holster rides on the belt of my chaps, so I always have it with me. I've found that setting it up for a "cross draw" is most effective (holster rides on my left side with the handle pointing forward. Draw it with the right hand, and it's ready to use.)

[cutterboy]

Some early morning cutting before Thanksgiving dinner.


 

 

 

 

 
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!     Cutter

[mike_belben]

getting a little faster at cable loading, its awkward.  i cant believe the come-along fuse hasnt snapped yet.  these are 8'6" to 15' pallet logs.  hope to get another bunk built for the tag trailer and haul them in next week, see how targetting midstory removal pays right now.

at 26hp tractor has plenty of HP to climb the hills and does not wheelie, but it will just sit and spin on a hill climb if wet at all.  im confident a PTO powered drive axle with lug tires on the trailer could move double the wood no problem. should be able to do 2cord per pass but the crane would need more clearance.  a bit longer wheelbase would help too.  you can make a living in small wood if you can move 18'6 sawlogs.

[trapper]

helped the neighbor wed with my wolf ridge splitter

 

[stavebuyer]

Cutterboy's 3 pt box motivated me to rig up one for myself. I used a carryall frame as my tractor is smaller and I wanted to keep the tare weight lower. It holds 1/2 facecord which is a good working load for the little tractor.



 

[mike_belben]

i make these crates with an air nailer, slabs and some bailing twine across the top so that i dont have to rehandle.   put a few in a row and cover with tin

[barbender]

CB, maple is hot right now, I think that was a #1 before you chunked it up😁

[cutterboy]

stavebuyer, looks good. I'll bet you'll use that firewood carrier a lot.

[cutterboy]

barbender, that tree was a red maple and only 12 or 13 inches on the stump. Besides that, I would not know how or who to sell it to. I did consider taking an 8' log back to my sawmill, but decided to just make it firewood and get back to the house before family arrived for Thanksgiving dinner.

[barbender]

Red maple is paying more than hard maple, I heard😁 I know, you can't really get a buyer to come out for one log😊  After spending a month on a job where I was rough grading logs from the seat of the forwarder, when I glanced at your picture part of my brain was saying "put it in the log pile"😊

[mike_belben]

helped the neighbor wed with my wolf ridge splitter

Good on you sir.  Always good to be neighborly.