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Consider handling wood as exercising.

The more times you handle a split, the more you are exercising. Lifting, stacking, bending over, carrying an arm load of wood...it's all good for you!

It's keeping you young!!!

Good reminder. Sort of like cutting the grass with a push mower. 12,000 steps later and you're done.
It's never about the situation, it's about the attitude.
I have to get the old logger aspect of production, production, production out of my head.

 

[WinterDeere]

I get too much exercise already. Some nights, I can barely lift a rocks glass to my lips!

I keep and move all wood in log form, until I'm ready to split and stack it. Once there, my "handling" steps are reasonable:

1. Rolling bucked rounds into loader bucket, which lifts them to park next to the splitter.
2. Lift out of bucket, onto splitter beam, and then drop into log catcher after split.
3. Pick splits off log catcher, and stack. I always split right next to where I'm stacking, so just a twisting motion, no walking.
4. 3-4 years later, pull wagon up to stack, and load wood into wagon. Park wagon outside basement door, under cover of porch.
5. 3x per day, take two satchels down to the wagon, and carry wood up to load into stoves.

I'm pretty fit, but am experiencing more joint troubles, as I get older. This week, it's my left shoulder, I must've torn something moving appliances last week.

Next week, it'll probably be a knee... and around it goes.

 

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I get too much exercise already. Some nights, I can barely lift a rocks glass to my lips!

I keep and move all wood in log form, until I'm ready to split and stack it. Once there, my "handling" steps are reasonable:

1. Rolling bucked rounds into loader bucket, which lifts them to park next to the splitter.
2. Lift out of bucket, onto splitter beam, and then drop into log catcher after split.
3. Pick splits off log catcher, and stack. I always split right next to where I'm stacking, so just a twisting motion, no walking.
4. 3-4 years later, pull wagon up to stack, and load wood into wagon. Park wagon outside basement door, under cover of porch.
5. 3x per day, take two satchels down to the wagon, and carry wood up to load into stoves.

I tried the pallet method and just bringing the pallets of stacked wood to the wood shed. Took too much space to stack the pallets in the wood shed. The next alternative is to have each pallet covered like a mini wood shed then place the pallets on the porch with the tractor. I figure I would go through 12 pallets per season. That means I'd have to make 24 pallets if I wanted the wood to season for two years.
I don't think I have the patience for that.
I would need a bigger tractor that could lift half a cord at a time. Then I would only have to make 12 pallets and spend $60,000 for a tractor that could lift it.
As I said it's all about attitude and my attitude needs adjustment.

 

[Jstpssng]

I would need a bigger tractor

And this is a problem... How?

My father used to cut his firewood in 4 foot lengths, bring it home and stack it. Then we'd run it through the cordwood saw, tossing it into the KB5 dump truck. From there he'd haul it to the woodshed where he would spit and stack it. When winter came he'd haul it in one wheelbarrow load at a time to put it in the furnace.
He was in better shape at 80 than I am at 65.

 

[WinterDeere]

I tried the pallet method and just bringing the pallets of stacked wood to the wood shed. Took too much space to stack the pallets in the wood shed. The next alternative is to have each pallet covered like a mini wood shed then place the pallets on the porch with the tractor.

psst... see my wagon. Great solution, if you have a place to park it at the house. I've posted about it a few times:

Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Huh? Black walnut is terrific firewood. Most firewood BTU charts show it above 20 MBTU/cord, better than ash, cherry, some oaks and maples. There's a lot more to "terrific firewood" than you can get from reading some online BTU charts. We average around 10 full cords per year, adding...

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Tractors and wood! Show your pics

I was cutting logs into rounds yesterday and I thought the chips were awfully wet. Then I thought that looks like water coming out too. It was a partly hollow tree and part of it had split open and healed it had been on a log pile a few months and I assume rain water had gotten in through the...

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[Rockbadchild]

I get too much exercise already. Some nights, I can barely lift a rocks glass to my lips!

I keep and move all wood in log form, until I'm ready to split and stack it. Once there, my "handling" steps are reasonable:

1. Rolling bucked rounds into loader bucket, which lifts them to park next to the splitter.
2. Lift out of bucket, onto splitter beam, and then drop into log catcher after split.
3. Pick splits off log catcher, and stack. I always split right next to where I'm stacking, so just a twisting motion, no walking.
4. 3-4 years later, pull wagon up to stack, and load wood into wagon. Park wagon outside basement door, under cover of porch.
5. 3x per day, take two satchels down to the wagon, and carry wood up to load into stoves.

I'm pretty fit, but am experiencing more joint troubles, as I get older. This week, it's my left shoulder, I must've torn something moving appliances last week.

Next week, it'll probably be a knee... and around it goes.

its crazy the amount of rehandling one do before getting rid of it in the wood stove... My dad handle it 7 times by the time its burning...

1)cutting and throw in the trailer to haul home
2)unload from the trailer
3)splitting it
4)stack it outside
5)pick it up and put it in the basement
6)stack it in the basement
7)grab it and put it in the wood stove

 

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psst... see my wagon. Great solution, if you have a place to park it at the house. I've posted about it a few times:

Tractors and wood! Show your pics

Huh? Black walnut is terrific firewood. Most firewood BTU charts show it above 20 MBTU/cord, better than ash, cherry, some oaks and maples. There's a lot more to "terrific firewood" than you can get from reading some online BTU charts. We average around 10 full cords per year, adding...

www.tractorbynet.com

Tractors and wood! Show your pics

I was cutting logs into rounds yesterday and I thought the chips were awfully wet. Then I thought that looks like water coming out too. It was a partly hollow tree and part of it had split open and healed it had been on a log pile a few months and I assume rain water had gotten in through the...

www.tractorbynet.com

All of my stuff is under cover as things stay better longer when covered. Your solution is a real good one. My problem is l don’t have a roof top to park my wagon under near the entrance. l don’t feel like a roof top built for the wagon is a remedy as l use this thing on the road as well.
Gets me thinking however.

 

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And this is a problem... How?

My father used to cut his firewood in 4 foot lengths, bring it home and stack it. Then we'd run it through the cordwood saw, tossing it into the KB5 dump truck. From there he'd haul it to the woodshed where he would spit and stack it. When winter came he'd haul it in one wheelbarrow load at a time to put it in the furnace.
He was in better shape at 80 than I am at 65.

Several problems.
1. Wife approval since l already have one that can lift a third of a cord
2. Space to house and even manipulate such a unit.
3. 60k buys a lot of other stuff such as heating oil, tree stems and the wood needed to make a roof for Winters solution.
Gosh this is fun.
And here l thought l was done with headaches and figuring stuff.

 

[Jstpssng]

Several problems.
1. Wife approval since l already have one that can lift a third of a cord
2. Space to house and even manipulate such a unit.
3. 60k buys a lot of other stuff such as heating oil, tree stems and the wood needed to make a roof for Winters solution.
Gosh this is fun.
And here l thought l was done with headaches and figuring stuff.

Yeah but, but... You would have a new tractor!!!
Gee it's fun suggesting how other people should buy new toys.

 

[2manyrocks]

And this is a problem... How?

My father used to cut his firewood in 4 foot lengths, bring it home and stack it. Then we'd run it through the cordwood saw, tossing it into the KB5 dump truck. From there he'd haul it to the woodshed where he would spit and stack it. When winter came he'd haul it in one wheelbarrow load at a time to put it in the furnace.
He was in better shape at 80 than I am at 65.

It occurred to me while I was out running my old Bachtold walk behind brush cutter this week that it was a labor saving machine to the hard working men it was designed for who were probably accustomed to using a manual brush swing blade. They cut and burned a lot of wood to stay warm, too.