The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[SwampDonkey]

I've got 8 cord in now, for next year. If I need a load or two more to top off the stacks that will be determined next May. ;D

Six feet high in the middle, 40 feet long, 14 feet spread at the base.





The pickup is in there some place. :D

[Corley5]

A sixty face cord order I finished up a couple days ago.  I took him 20 a while back and the last 40 the end of last week.  I had parts of five days in it.  



 

 

[SwampDonkey]

Reminds me of the days of heating two farm houses and two potato sheds, a mountain of wood.

[mudfarmer]

Corley that new truck looks like it is working out real well for you 8)

[Big_eddy]

I was bringing wood in to fill our wood box this weekend and it made we think just how lucky our firewood customers are to receive "real" firewood. All we get to burn are the rejects! There was not a real piece of firewood in the wheelbarrow.

[SwampDonkey]

Them rejects will keep ya just as warm. They make straight ashes, to.

[barbender]

I love seeing my OWB filled with all of the scraps from my firewood operation👍👍

[upnut]

If it burns it's beautiful! I do draw the line at box elder....ugh!

Scott B.

[GRANITEstateMP]

All of our uglys and shirts go to 2 owb of the wifes family.  Keeps my dooryard clean and them warm

[Al_Smith]

It all burns some just does better than others .

[ajschnitzelbank]

 

 

 

 

I'm just a homeowner (wanna be homesteader), but I enjoy looking at this thread so I figured I'd snap a few pics today. 

Got some slab wood from the local mill, as I've had trouble from two different local folks getting log length firewood delivered. And I'm way behind for this winter. 

Pulled it out of the truck on to pallet forks, cut it to 20" lengths, split, put in bucket, drove to firewood racks near house, stacked there. 

I got some IBC cages and love them. Need more, but don't wanna pay the prices they're going for! So I just stacked the old fashioned way today. 

[thecfarm]

It will help keep you warm!!!

[jimbarry]

Been hearing that a lot lately from new customers. They've been waiting and waiting from their regular supplier and no delivery and no followup. So they call us. 

What's the going rate for a truck load of slabs in your area? 

[ajschnitzelbank]

I'm in upstate New York. 1/2 cord of all oak and maple, pretty dry (all 19% moisture content or lower), was $50. And it was over the half cord advertised, as two wound up being 1 1/2 cords neatly stacked. 

A tree guy down the road said he'd get me a small log truck for $200. I called several times to follow up. He never showed. It's been over a year. 

A really nice local family that logs and owns a lumber mill quoted me $900 for a load they said would be 7-8 cords. Couple follow up calls to them but still no show. 

[jimbarry]

 

 

[Big_eddy]

Jim. I'm really curious how you like that in comparison to your previous splitter.

[jimbarry]

Jim. I'm really curious how you like that in comparison to your previous splitter.

We did a half cord yesterday. I bucked a log or two while she split and stack. Then I'd split and she would stack. We were dealing with rotten logs so a lot of resplitting. Even dealing with that we split and stacked 2 crates in 40 minutes. That's a full 20 min faster than the EastonMade. 
Even quicker than the Hakki Pilke because that takes an hour to do two crates, not factoring in the time in the skid steer sorting the log pile and bringing logs to the processor log deck.
So yeah, faster in every way. We'll get around to doing a couple vids to show side by side performance.

[stavebuyer]

So much better control over the size of the splits and also have the ability to "avoid" the really tough knots. The downside would be keeping fingers out of the line of fire as it appears to be foot activated?

[upnut]

And self propelled? Looks like a hydraulic motor and sprocket on the left, look forward to the video.

Scott B.

[jimbarry]

So much better control over the size of the splits and also have the ability to "avoid" the really tough knots. The downside would be keeping fingers out of the line of fire as it appears to be foot activated?

Foot pedal.

[jimbarry]

20221111 Split Force 9ton First Impressions - YouTube

[doc henderson]

Nice machine and nice operation.  i could not work with my wife, so it is nice to see you two working together.  i have only one other observation.  there is no need to ever have your thumbs on the top side of the log.  after years of use, it may come down to only one.  I have a horizontal splitter and I always remind folk to keep all fingers away from the log ends where the wedge and pusher goes.  

[SwampDonkey]

x2 Be careful where your hands are Jim. ;) Nice wood splitter.

[Al_Smith]

It's down to below the 30's at night so it's time to load up the trailer and light the fire .

[jimbarry]

Into the rotten logs today. More mindful of fingers on top.  :-[  ;D

How long does it take to split and stack 32 cu ft? - YouTube