The Daily Firewood Picture Thread

[Al_Smith]

Due to the fact a squirrel barbequed itself this morning  on a transformer and knocked out the power I fired the stove up a week early .Nice and toasty burning cottonwood .

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, no doubt. And it'll (aspen here) heat just fine here in a lot colder weather. 10F this morning. I haven't put wood in here for 7 hrs, probably won't for 4 hrs more. 80F in here, window up to.

[Al_Smith]

It was 20F at dawn .

[doc henderson]

25° and 4 inches of fine snow.

[barbender]

 I actually feel warmer when I burn wood others would turn their nose up at😊

[doc henderson]

 

 

 

[SwampDonkey]

It's actually only 20F outside here now after all day sun. Will be some aspen loaded in the stove for the night. ;)

[g_man]

That looks pretty nice and comfy doc - makes me want to put our stove upstairs instead of in the basement.

gg

[Al_Smith]

It just feels different from the constant radiant heat from a wood stove compaired to 125 degree discharge  forced air from a high efficiency propane furnace .It's not my imagination either . Most times until it gets down in the teens outside that I even run the fan on the insert stove because then it gets too hot .Imagine that two old folks sitting around in their undies :D.One thing I'm not going to do is freeze in my own house .

[doc henderson]

I pictured it for just a second and then said no thanks Al!           :  

[SwampDonkey]

Same here Al, when comparing stove oil to wood on the same duct work. I prefer the wood. I can heat a space quicker and hotter on wood to. :D

[cutterboy]

 I've been working on a very branchy hickory tree on the edge of a field. The trunk was cut into firewood lengths and hauled home and then I went to work on the top. Got most of it done today, will have to go back tomorrow.


 

 

 


   Keep on cutting.....Cutter

[Magicman]

You are doing a most excellent job of whittling that top down.  Just continue to be careful.   

I plan to do some fire wooding tomorrow.

[SwampDonkey]

A lot of wood in those branchy open grown trees. ;D I had a big old 36" diameter maple with huge limbs that I got about 2 cords out of. I have another out there with the honey bees in it with just as much wood in it. ;D If they ever have to take that sucker down, better be in the cold or it could get mighty warm at the stump. :D

[Magicman]

Friday was my day to finally recover this 54' fallen Water Oak and skid it to the Cabin.


 
It fell a couple of years ago but the top and root ball kept it mostly off of the ground.  Some of the sapwood is punky so I split most of it off.


 
Marked it for bucking and a Grandson ran the splitter. 


 
Making good progress.  The limbs on the left are from another recovered blow down.


 
The 10' trailer is filled and everything is buttoned up until I get back.  I now have it backed up to the woodshed for unloading. 

I suspect that the remaining wood will be another trailer load and this should be enough to finish this year and probably most of next year.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Well, logging's been slow due to the wet and warm Dec. we have been having.  Lumber is low and you can hardly sell blocking. But this is the one little bright  spot for me. I cant keep these racks filled.   I filled the $45 side and a $25 side late yesterday afternoon and this is how it looked this morning.   


It's not a lot of money but its fun and I get a kick out of it every time I sell a rack.  Easily entertained I guess.  :D

[g_man]

Well, logging's been slow due to the wet and warm Dec. we have been having.  Lumber is low and you can hardly sell blocking. But this is the one little bright  spot for me. I cant keep these racks filled.   I filled the $45 side and a $25 side late yesterday afternoon and this is how it looked this morning.   


It's not a lot of money but its fun and I get a kick out of it every time I sell a rack.  Easily entertained I guess.  :D

Do you fill those racks with loose wood or bundles ?

gg

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Just stacked in the rack g_man.  It takes twelve  $25 dollar racks to make a cord and six $45 dollar racks to make a cord.        I did try leaving some kindling bundles on top of the racks for $5 but did not sell enough to make it worth the time.   

[stavebuyer]

Looks like sort of an "in-town" location. No issues with the lock box?

[g_man]

Just stacked in the rack g_man.  It takes twelve  $25 dollar racks to make a cord and six $45 dollar racks to make a cord.        I did try leaving some kindling bundles on top of the racks for $5 but did not sell enough to make it worth the time.   

Seems like a very fair price to me. I see 1 cubic foot bundles all wrapped in plastic in convenient stores around here for $5 or more. You probably have trouble keeping those racks full.

gg

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Looks like sort of an "in-town" location. No issues with the lock box?

It is in the town that is closest to my place SB.   Maye 3000 people in this town.   No, Ive only been ripped off twice in many many years.    Once in a while I'm shorted a few bucks or even five bucks but do you know within a short time I'll open the can and find that someone left it and paid it back.   Kinda remarkable really.  But as I said real small town, lots of folk's know me.    I have other locations much like it.   This one sells the most.

[B.C.C. Lapp]

With my prices on these racks I make about $280 per cord of wood sold.   That is good for a seasoned cord here.  And I especially like  not having to schedule deliveries.

[stavebuyer]

I like it. Fill it on your schedule. No whining about price, volume, etc. Take it or leave it for the next guy. I ought to try that at my old log yard. Like you, I enjoy making the wood but not the retail part of the traditional phone calls and deliveries.

[SwampDonkey]

I gathered up a pickup load from fir and birch, a small bit of spruce that came down in the recent storm. The spruce was a 30"er that knocked over the 16" fir on the way down and the fir put a bad lean on a  10" birch, so he's in the woodpile to. I only took a little of the spruce, I had to cut it with the chainsaw some to split it. Like elm. If I had a dimension mill I woulda sawed 4 - 16'  8"x8" outta the but log. She's a good 20" on the small end. And chalk white. No such luck. :D

[Magicman]

I sawed two White Oak logs into 2" bridge decking yesterday which meant:


 
That I got a nice whack of side lumber and slabs seen here bucked into 2' lengths.  I'll bring the splitter from the farm and do the splitting here.  This may be dry enough for burning next year but being White Oak, maybe not.