Making Firewood
Jan 25, 2022 06:13:30 #
Nice set of images!!
I cut wood for heat for quite a few years The process was:
#1 fell the tree
#2 Top the tree cutting everything 2" or larger into stove length, my daughters drug the brush after I cleared the area.
#3 cut the trunk into stove lengths after I was well away from the first cuts the girls upended all the pieces they could handle.
#4 split cuts where they sat, as I split the girls loaded the cut up tops into the trailer, then we all finished loading and hauled to the wood lot unloaded and returned to the woods for another load.
Never could see the sense of felling a tree then dragging it somewhere to cut it and then stacking before splitting the re-stacking after splitting. Just seems like a lot of extra work to me.
The only reason I could see for dragging the tree is if it was in a location that made it unsafe to work on and those I left alone!
When I was younger I could split a load of wood with an axe faster one man than one man could with a hydraulic splitter
I cut wood for heat for quite a few years The process was:
#1 fell the tree
#2 Top the tree cutting everything 2" or larger into stove length, my daughters drug the brush after I cleared the area.
#3 cut the trunk into stove lengths after I was well away from the first cuts the girls upended all the pieces they could handle.
#4 split cuts where they sat, as I split the girls loaded the cut up tops into the trailer, then we all finished loading and hauled to the wood lot unloaded and returned to the woods for another load.
Never could see the sense of felling a tree then dragging it somewhere to cut it and then stacking before splitting the re-stacking after splitting. Just seems like a lot of extra work to me.
The only reason I could see for dragging the tree is if it was in a location that made it unsafe to work on and those I left alone!
When I was younger I could split a load of wood with an axe faster one man than one man could with a hydraulic splitter
Jan 25, 2022 07:22:12 #
You have a lot more ambition than I do KT. Impressive. My wife and I have had a fireplace in every home we've owned since 1974. In that time I may have started a half dozen fires. We had our fireplace converted to propane in the late 90s and have a natural gas fireplace in our present condo. For us, it's the only way to go. Click on...click off and it warms the home quite well. No Little House on the Prairie here :-)
Jan 25, 2022 07:30:21 #
Nothing prettier than a long row of neatly stacked cord wood. I like your operation. We have 55 logs on the ground right now ready to move out. Thank you Gypsy Moths (he says sarcastically). Here's how we move them out of the woods. It leaves a very light footprint vs. skidding. My neighbor Dan welded this log arch rig up. That's him in the driver's seat pulling a 12' by 22" American Beech log weighing about 1,700 pounds.
Jan 25, 2022 07:46:00 #
Jan 25, 2022 07:50:14 #
KTJohnson wrote:
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Man, that's a lot of work but you did it very well! I love the smell of wood being processed with a chain saw and I love wood heat - there's nothing like it!
Jan 25, 2022 07:56:42 #
Nice series of pictures. My question is, how do you burn that in a propane stove? 
Jan 25, 2022 08:42:18 #
Jan 25, 2022 09:38:27 #
Few things are more satisfying than to see 4 or 5 cord's worth of firewood neatly stacked and covered as the leaves start to turn.
I was going to say splitting that much wood with wedges belongs in the Guinness Book of Records but I saw the log splitter in one of the photos. Still a great job. I use both a splitter and a 6-pound wood maul and if the wood grain's nice and straight without knots, I can split wood faster with the maul than the splitter. On the other hand, by the nighttime, my back reminds me to limit the maul use.
I was going to say splitting that much wood with wedges belongs in the Guinness Book of Records but I saw the log splitter in one of the photos. Still a great job. I use both a splitter and a 6-pound wood maul and if the wood grain's nice and straight without knots, I can split wood faster with the maul than the splitter. On the other hand, by the nighttime, my back reminds me to limit the maul use.
Jan 25, 2022 10:32:08 #
Nice work - the sawing and the shooting of the pictures! A wood fire is so much warmer than anything else! I cannot imagine heating a house in your country with propane. I know how expensive it is here - to the point that I don't heat my house but just brave the cold mornings!
Jan 25, 2022 10:36:26 #
A very nice series and a great result……a good looking wood pile.
Jan 25, 2022 10:36:50 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
KTJohnson wrote:
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Maybe you should invest in a metal detector …..
That is a workout that my knees would not allow for! Whew!
Stan
Jan 25, 2022 10:42:30 #
Doubt it is the case where you are, but the spike is a trick from the days when the "Environmentalists" were trying to stop logging in the Northwest. Dangerous to the logger as well machinery.
Jan 25, 2022 11:41:46 #
azted
Loc: Las Vegas, NV.
What a fun post....., I can smell the fresh cut wood and imagine it in my old wood burning fireplace. Sustainable, too!
Jan 25, 2022 12:17:17 #
Jan 25, 2022 12:55:36 #
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