Hi Vertical. I agree with your method mostly. I do think you can eliminate some steps however. First, it is more efficient to get the tree out of the woods and dragged to a landing. The way I do it is on one side I stack the stems and the opposite side I've cut the crown. This is my "slash" side. After I've pushed the slash into a burn pile, I pluck out the stems and pile those up. You need some type of fork teeth on your fel bucket to do this job. The next year I buck the stems only and I buck them at the stack sight so as soon as they come off the splitter, they get stacked. I stack them in a single row 100' long by about 5'high with pieces being 18". This allows me to back up to the pile 2 years later and push 3' sections of stacked wood into the rear box carrier mounted on the 3 pt. ( in the pic its being carried on the front forks) I then bring this into the wood shed and stack it there. Now the pallet method others have suggested is the most efficient way of moving split wood IMO. Gets stacked off the splitter onto the pallet and you can now move a big bunch of wood at a time without touching it again until it gets burnt. Drying is the bane of firewood. That's why its stacked. I once saw a picture of a guy splitting his wood in one of those large quonset house type plastic enclosures. He had a cement floor in this 40x20 building. He didn't stack. He just let the wood pile off the splitter. The pile would push the splitter along. On one side of the enclosure was one years worth an on the other was the next year's. Because this enclosure was like a green house and because he had a cement floor and because his piles were long and shallow, it would dry as if it was stacked with no moisture ever coming in contact with the wood either beneath or above. The wood went right to the stove emptied from a scooped tractor bucket. Least amount you touch it, the most efficient way it is.
) show if one of us isnt around. It also helps we dont have to store any logs inside and the wood on the pallet is solid with that wrapping around it. It would also work for loading the wood onto a trailer, I suppose. Just unload each pallet and store them. We only cut less than a half mile from my house so I've never had to worry much about traveling with it.
