The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, wet ground for sure with all these monsoon rains. :D My window for cutting wood is pretty much late June to mid October as far as not making grooves across the land. And if you're using old existing winter roads in the warm season, those are mostly a shallow ditch with the root mat scalped off.  With berms along the sides and no ditches. Given heavy fall rains those roads become wet and the water doesn't run off. It's got to go into the ground. :D Later when it freezes you're walking on shallow thin ice, the water soaked away under it, down you go into muck mire. :D

[cutterboy]

Yes, mud here too. I'm staying out of the woods for now. But there is plenty of wood in the barnyard that needs to be split and stacked in the barn.


 

 

[Al_Smith]

I learned something today I never knew before .Black cherry will dry as fast as green ash .I had several wind blowns over last winter I carved up this  last summer .Believe it or not it burns nearly as good as the popcorn dry ash .Fact I looked up the BTU's and it's nearly the same as ash .
This I did know about cherry .Once it's grounded best to make haste because it does not take weather very well .Neither does it standing dead .

[B.C.C. Lapp]

I like cherry to Al_Smith. Cherry makes up about half the wood i sell and burn myself.  We got lots of it and it does dry quick.   Soft maple cherry and ash make up 90% of my wood.   Oak, hickory, hard maple and beech are great in the stove but take so much longer to dry.

[GRANITEstateMP]

Every spring I try to put at least a load of logs next to my shed as my "Emergency Log Stash". If my log supplier is on a softwood job, mud season is extra long, or I don't have time to sort "processor logs" I can dip into that pile.

 
I was pretty good about restocking the emergency stash this year, so yesterday, I moved all of it from the dry staging area to the processor brow.  I for got what the side of my shed looks like without a pile of logs!  The processor brow is now just about full. 



 
Guess I better start sorting my last load of logs and refilling the Emergency stash for next spring!

[Al_Smith]

They claim this part of Ohio is in the cherry belt ,whatever that is .With good intensions in the past I saved a few good lumber logs but my progress on a home built bandsaw mill is in slow motion .As such many got sliced into firewood because of the logs degrading .Saying that the ash logs are holding up well for lumber plus a couple of white oak logs .
Selling firewood on a small scale as I once did is a young man's game .I gave it up in the mid 80's.Did it all with a Poulan S25 DA and a Mac PM 610 .The two most under rated chainsaws of all time and I still have them .Old saws,old wood tick kind of goes together . ;D

[petefrom bearswamp]

Have plenty of cherry here but not my favorite to handle or burn for that matter.
Much messier than tight barked ash, maple, beech etc.
Sold the last of the ash on the woodlot( now owned by my son), 158 trees, so it will be ash tops for firewood for a couple of years at least for both of us.
My old Central Boiler classic, now 17 years old is a good  trouble free unit but kinda hungry.

[Corley5]

My sawdust pile has gotten out of hand. I hadn't moved it away from the building in a few weeks. That's the dust from a couple hundred plus face cords of wood. I moved it away from the shed while my help caught up with making bundles. I haven't hauled the whole bunch away in too long. I normally spread it on the fields spring and fall but haven't taken the time in over a year. Maybe next spring. We made and delivered 170 bundles today.



 

 

 

 

 

[Corley5]

  13 cord load of oak. It was the clean up load on a job. More than half was standing dead. The rest green. I'm not sure how dry it is. I'll run some for my OWB to see.
  The fall firewood rush is officially over here @ Whittaker's Farm and Forest Products. We ran out 115 face cords and 170 bundles the last 8 days. There're 10 face cords on the schedule for this Friday and a five-face cord load one day next week and our own wood to do. The everyday day in day out wood production is done 8) 8) 8) Crazy season it's been. There'll be wood to do all winter but nothing like this has been. Back to running forwarder Wednesday after some maintenance on the firewood equipment tomorrow.



 

[barbender]

This is 14-15 cords of "cleanup" at the end of a job, mostly maple and birch, piled against all that was left from last year's pile on the right. You can see the ends of that stuff is grey.

 

[Al_Smith]

Because this is not a high pressure logging area  there aren't many saw mills .However one about 8 miles from me does  a fair amount of hardwood .The piles of saw dust sometimes gets huge .Then all of the sudden it disappears .Sold off by the box car load for charcoal etc .About like the slaughter houses of Chicago decades ago .They used every part of the pig except the oink . ;D

[GRANITEstateMP]

I just got a heads up from my main log supplier that my cost is going up $15 a cord on the next load. They have held pretty steady price wise when things started going up, but said that with diesel fuel prices still high, and parts and consumables the same, they had to go up. I understand, and I hope my customers do also.  I've tried absorbing parts of price hikes in the past, and realized that's not something I can continue to do, long term.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

In my travels today I checked out a game lands clear cut that I heard was happening.   Found out I know the logger and made a good deal for 10 tri axle loads of decent looking poles.  I'm pretty happy to get a head start drying this stuff. Ill have it piled up in the wood yard off the ground and hopefully cracked and stacked by the end of Feb.
 eb.      

[barbender]

We finally started to come out of the deep freeze, so it was time to dig the Dyna out of the snow and thaw it out. I really need to put this thing under cover.









And then I was visited by a streaking Corgi😊

[barbender]

The conveyor belt was froze down, one of the live deck chains was froze, the main feed chain was frozen down too. And then the throttle cable. The choke cable was still free though, a small victory😁

[Corley5]

I use Heat driveway melt on the bottom side of my conveyor belt to keep it from slipping with snow and ice as well as keeping it from freezing up  when it sits for a while  I'll be back in the business Saturday and Sunday.

[barbender]

Yeah that's the other challenge, getting the belt to not slip in the cold. Is that a salt Corley?

[doc henderson]

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[Corley5]

That's it 8)

[cutterboy]

Cutting on the edge of a field for a few days after Christmas. Maple, hickory and ash were on the menu but here are some pictures of a clump of ash I cut.


 

 

 

 

 
Has anyone ever used that log lifter tool in the above picture? It is time consuming and kind of a pain but it does keep half the tree off the ground. After dulling two chains in the frozen dirt I brought that out.


 
Keep on cutting.....Cutter

[rusticretreater]

Has anyone ever used that log lifter tool in the above picture? It is time consuming and kind of a pain but it does keep half the tree off the ground. After dulling two chains in the frozen dirt I brought that out.

Sure have.  Its better than cutting part way through a log and then rolling it over to finish the cuts.  You just can't do that large of a log.

[cutterboy]

It's too wet now for the tractor to get into the woods but my zero turn mower and little dump trailer can get into the area I have been cutting. There is just one really wet spot so I put down some junk boards to help it along.


 

 

 

 

 
Will have to do some splitting soon.....Cutter

[bigblockyeti]

When it's wet ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.  I have a little JD riding mower and a similar trailer, with the more aggressive tires I put on the back, I think it could go almost anywhere if it had a locking differential.  The best part is if you get it stuck, you just jump off and pick up the rear setting it down where you can keep moving.

[thecfarm]

It's nice that you keep care of your woods.
I just pull up to a stone wall and throw rocks into the bucket. I go in with a load of rocks, come out with a load of wood.

[Walnut Beast]

Cutterboy the only way somebody is going to keep you down is if they strap you down! Nice job 💪