KTJohnson Loc: Northern Michigan

jerryc41 posted about the cost of firewood. In our area the current price is $70.00 a "face cord" (4' high x 8' long x 16"-20", the "face" of a cord of wood).

Until our old furnace died a few years back (we use propane now) I cut wood for about 25 years from our own woods of about 8 acres. I knew nothing about it when I started. We had moved from the Detroit suburbs to 35 acres in the Northwoods. Got pretty good at it after a while.

Started out with seven kids helping me, ended up doing it all alone, which kept me in pretty good shape.

Got pretty good at dropping them where I wanted them to go

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Most trees were 75-100 ft tall and about this big

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Used the tractor with tongs to haul logs to staging area

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Sliced to approx 18 inches long, then split

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Stack 'em to get ready to split

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Use these for the stubborn ones

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Only ran into this once, obviously it had been there a while (kind of dulls the saw pretty quick)

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Stack them bark up to shed water/snow

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Ready for winter

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

That’s the way you do it!

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Lotta wood, lotta work!

Glad to see you have a splitter!

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Impressive, KT! I felled many trees with my Stihl Farm Boy, but I never split them for firewood. That is hard work.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I have a lot of trees and large branches to clean up on the farm after last fall’s windstorms, mostly dead elm. I see the need to rent a splitter for a weekend. I can still do it by hand, but I just don’t want to.

Quixdraw Loc: x

Impressive! Though buying wood is not expensive here, cutting, splitting and burning in the fireplace is both good exercise and also hazardous fuel abatement. Appreciate anything you can tell me about the Tractor Tongs - have been using a choker or separate log tongs with chain. Makes a mess sometimes though there's not a lot of landscaping ex right around the house. My tractor looks a about the same size as yours, though newer as I moved more recently. Thanks!

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rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Wow!!!

A friend of mine owns a firewood company here in Phoenix. There's lots of work involved for sure.
--Bob

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I am really impressed. It's all I can do to get one tree cut down much less cut up.

Floyd Loc: Misplaced Texan in Florence, Alabama

Very nice pictures. Brings back memories of when I was much younger. A gentleman whose wife had been a patient in the hospital where I was CEO, let my friend and I cut firewood around (literally) his ranch as long as we cleared the 8 foot fire break along his fence line. We had to cut and split every thing by hand as this was before we had could rent a splitter except a very expensive one from an individual. That was so much work I've never done it again.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

A wall of wood. Nice wood pile.
We use to have a wood stove insert in the fireplace on one end of the house and a propane heater at the other end of the house to supplement the original heat pump. When it was really cold outside, for this part of the country (southeastern PA), the original heat pump could barely keep it above 65 inside. A few years ago, I spent $8,000.00 on a new highly efficient heat pump, and now it can be 15 degrees outside and nice and warm on the inside with no supplemental heat. Now that all the kids have homes and families of their own, at night I turn the heat down to 60 and heat the master bedroom with an infrared electric heater. The new heat pump may have been a bit pricy but, it does an excellent job in both the winter and the summer. No more propane and no more wood.
My home away from home is heated by propane, but we supplement the propane heat with electric oil filled radiators. Around here, electricity is much cheaper than propane.

CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT

Nice stack of wood ya got there! Burning with wood warms ya 4 times......cutting, splitting, stacking and burning! We go thru about 10 chords a winter..so much better than gas or propane.

aellman Loc: Boston MA

Yes. The first thing you should learn about cutting down a tree is how not to let it fall on your head. I was fortunate to have an old-timer show me how it worked before the first attempt.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Lot of work for sure. Lucky with that nail the saw could have easily kicked back

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis