how long does it take you to cut a cord of wood?

[hazmat]

Another view

 

[hazmat]

The "back 40"

I forgot to snap a couple pics of the work zone.

 

[ejb]

>>I told her it was going to cost $85 to rent a log splitter for the day.


That seems steep to me...I bought mine for about $300(used) from a local tractor dealer. Very heavy duty vertical 3pt type splitter. At $85 day, it won't take long to pay for itself if you can find a good used one for sale....

 

[Docsknotinn]

Hazmat, I think you are really doing pretty good on time considering all of the clean up operations that you are factoring in a cord. Typically I spend a full day felling a acre of either new trail or a new food plot area. I try to leave it for several months after that. Then I buck it and move the 18" sections to a pile for splitting with the FEL. After that the remants are gathered for burning in the winter. When I finally get to splitting it goes quickly but if I factor in all of the work per cord I bet I spend as many or more hours per cord. I just had a Wood splitter deivered from Northern Tool. It was on sale for 1k. 20 ton with a honda motor. Prince valve etc. Much heavier and better hydraulics than the ones I was seeing locally for 900-1250. They even had the shipping on sale at $168 and they put it on a 6 month easy pay billed to my visa for no charge. I'll be putting it to the test this comeing week end. Dave

 

[bebster]

Dave,
Did you get the 20-ton horizontal/vertical one with the 5.5 HP Honda engine they are showing for $1099 ? They actually show 2 versions of the same unit (judging by the pictures), and I'm trying to decide between the two.
Looking forward to hearing how it works for you this weekend.

 

[slowzuki]

Guys here use special buckets to stack in the bucket and dump in a semi-stacked pile.

I'm planning on buying a couple of old hay wagons and taking the wagon to the cutting area and stacking once, then bring the wagons down near the back door for the winter!
Ken

 

[Currmudgeon]

That's not bad at all, considering the amount of tiddly work you had to do.

Last month I had a dead 36-inch maple dropped in my front yard. Since I don't have a big saw or a bucket truck, and the tree was in the overhead wires, I had it done. The cutter did it for less than I could rent the bucket truck.

He left it as a mess in the front yard, as I instructed. I bucked it into 16 inch lengths, split them with a maul, sledge and wedges, and tractored the pieces to the pile. I moved about 1-1/2 cords in an easy weekend.

The guy who said "heating with wood warms you twice," obviously had someone else do the work. It's more like five times. <grin>

It was nice to learn that I can still split 24-inch maple with a maul.

 

[Slamfire]

When my Dad's splitter bought the farm, he started using his backhoe to split with. He clamped a wedge to the boom and a flat plate replaced the bucket. By curling the bucket/plate the logs were forced against the wedge and split. That'd save a rental fee.

 

[hazmat]

<font color="blue"> That'd save a rental fee </font>

Gee honey, we need to spend $6,500 on a backhoe so we don't have to rent a log splitter. That one will go over great /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

For those fortunate souls who do already have a backhoe, that's a pretty neat idea.

 

[Slamfire]

So figure out how to do the deed with your loader. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif