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[EddieWalker]

This looks like the way to split firewood!!!!

The Alaska Life How to make firewood FAST - YouTube

Eddie

 

[mikehaugen]

This looks like the way to split firewood!!!!

The Alaska Life How to make firewood FAST - YouTube

Eddie

I like it!

 

[two_bit_score]

This looks like the way to split firewood!!!!

The Alaska Life How to make firewood FAST - YouTube

Eddie

Pretty cool!
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[brokenknee]

It is pretty neat, only about $22 grand, for the small one. I think the bigger one was like $33.

 

[chopped]

Maybe negotiate 'free shipping' a possibility?

It is pretty neat, only about $22 grand, for the small one. I think the bigger one was like $33.

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[dave1949]

It is pretty neat, only about $22 grand, for the small one. I think the bigger one was like $33.

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Maybe negotiate 'free shipping' a possibility?

$22K for the splitter plus $20K for a used SS to hang it on = $42K total.

$42,000/$220 per cord delivered = 191 cords of wood. Or, enough for 38 years if burning 5 cords per year.

Hmmmm.

 

[JerryK]

Only trouble I see right off is there is too much time spent fetching the log/travel time. You would be better off with a standalone unit to wack/split the wood with the loader feeding it the logs in mass. [ ]

 

[TnAndy]

How do you move those well built, and also clearly heavy wood houses?

They look great!

Thanks. As Lloyd said, I tow them around the farm EMPTY using a chain and my Yanmar 41hp tractor. I never tried to move a full one Got a small dozer that 'probably' would move them full, but my guess is it would tear them up to try to do so. Only time I move them is when I'm clearing an area, or have enough deadfall in an area of the farm to warrant it. I keep one pretty much all the time down at my sawmill area just because I run into enough crap logs (or ends/partial sections) not worth making into lumber, but do make great firewood.

What we do is transfer the wood either to an over sized bucket (light material bucket) on the FEL a load at a time, or to a wood wagon that holds about a cord, and back that into the basement and stack it there. (pic shows my previous New Holland tractor)

 

[TnAndy]

They are built on "skids" and are towed/pushed/sled into position by truck or tractor. Notice the chain and foundation timber with a chamfer end(s).

They are beautifully built. Shame to put wood in them - really.

tnandy, do you mix your wood or have a shed for each particular type of wood... hard/soft... chunked&split/kindling?

Nice build.

Lloyd,


I only burn hardwood.....mostly red, white and chestnut oak, some ash, hickory,locust (my personal favorite) that we have a LOT of here on the farm (we're in the middle of the Appalachian hardwood belt).....Poplar, soft maple (red) and softwoods such as pine, hemlock, I'll generally saw in to lumber (Woodmizer mill) for projects like the sheds if big enough, and if not, I let 'em lay there and rot. Too little fuel value to fool with when I have dead/wind fall oak aplenty.

GOOD sawlogs:

Leftover trash for firewood:

SO, basically all the wood in the sheds is a mix of good hardwood.

Kindling, I get from scraps from my wood shop. I sawed a bunch of red cedar a few years back on the mill, and a lot of it "dooty".....sections of rot in the logs, but I kept all of that, and have had wonderful, easy to split, easy to light, kindling for years now. I'm down to my last 4'x4'x4' box of it ( set in couple rainy days and split kindling for several boxes ), which should last about 2-3 more years....then I guess I'm gonna have to hunt some more cedar ! We don't have any growing on our land.

 

[TnAndy]

not trying to be synical or anything but nothing i have seen is enough to hold all the wood you may need for the winter and to start storing for the next winter so your wood can be fully seasoned. and the 16x8 wood shed is a total mess. none of these interest me at all . sorry folks, not trying to be mean. just looking at it with common sense.

Really ?

Did you miss mine ?

Each shed holds about a winter's worth of wood. Two sheds = two years. And got the material ready for two more when I have the time to get 'em done....so that will be 3-4 years worth stored ahead.


Beats stacking it out in the open like I used to do.

6 cord pile: