Putting Up Firewood

[Bird]

Makes me tired to just think about splitting that much firewood. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Cliff_Johns]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It is a great way to spend some time with the family. )</font>

Boy, that's right. Doing a project like that together is the stuff of family. Nice photo sequence too.

Cliff

 

[Junkman]

From my last landscaping project we had a truck like that come to pick up the wood and filled it completely with a combination of firewood quality and lumber quality oak. Darn near had to pay to have it taken away. If it hadn't been for a with a friend and his running into someone that he knew that was a logger, it would still be here. Tried to give it to a few people that sold firewood, but no one wanted it. On one hand you pay dearly to buy a load like that, but on the other hand if you have a load like that, you can't give it away. I still have probably about 3 - 4 cords of tops that will just rot since I don't burn wood. Wood heats you many times.... when you cut it.... when you split it..... when you stack it..... when you carry it in to burn.... then when you finally burn it...... and lastly, when you remove the ashes and clean the appliance....

 

[8NTX]

Wow, we are all drooling and envious here.

No, it's not the beautiful place you have.

No, it's not the great stack of logs to make into firewood.

No, it's not the nice little BX that some of would love to have.



It's the wife and daughter who willingly cut firewood for you. Now that, my friend, is something we covet. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[DannyD]

I want to know how you got her to even consider doing "dirty" work. My daughter would have just walked away shaking her head. Come to think of it, the wife would have a fit if I even mentioned it.......Like mother like daughter!

Now that she is "on her own" so to say, she has learned that even dirty dishes need washed.............and mom aint there to help. Best lesson she ever learned!

Amen on the envious part!

 

[RoyJackson]

That's a really interesting looking garage door.. Almost looks like it was an entrance to a Quonset hut

 

[sassafraspete]

A couple of comments......1) all this talk of firewood and snow blades has me thinking of winter... 2) I noticed who seemed to be riding around on the tractor while everyone else was doing the heavy work!!! Great family shots....I always get in the mood to cut firewood in October here , when the leaves change and it's a beautiful time to be in the woods....and oh....it's a lot cooler. Who cuts firewood in August? The sawdust would just be sticking to me. Kudos to your wife.

sassafraspete

 

[PhilNH5]

Bigun, I never worked out the costs. I live in a log cabin with a cathedral ceiling. It gets cold. I burn 650 gal of heating oil each season. That is with the thermo set at 55F. I typically burn 4 plus cords a year - sometimes 5 plus. This grapple load costs me $500. Firewood is running close to $200 a cord already. So it would have cost me close to $1600 for 8 cords. I don't count our labor. chainsaw cost me $269 3 years ago. Good little saw. The timberjack, pulphook, and other small tools I acquired overtime. Prior to the tractor we used a cart on my garden tractor. If I add it all up it may be close. But I like the heat from wood and we also cook on a woodstove.

8NTX and DannyD, My family has aways helped with the chores. My wife is better at cutting the big logs then I am. I tend to miss my starting cut and "corkscrew" my way around. She goes straight through. I have mentioned on here how we picked the Stihl 025c because it was the saw that felt best in my wives hands. My daughter loves the tractor and uses it almost as much as I do.

Roy, The top floor of the garage extends 4 feet oover the bottom floor. The arches are decorative. See the attached pic.

 

[PhilNH5]

Sassafrasspete,
I put the complimentary shots in the post. Unfortunately I supply most of the grunt work. Wrestling with the full size logs, feeding the cut lenghts to the person running the splitter, picking up the split pieces and filling the tractor bucket and weightbox and lastly unloading and stacking the wood. My wife does her fair share of grunt work - and is usually willing to continue long after I am. (and no she is not standing over my shoulder)

But I am not complaining. I sure do appreciate the family I have and the work they put in. At the end of the day we are all sweaty and covered with sawdust. and pleasantly pooped out. So for the last 3 saturdays we wound up going out to dinner.
all in all it works out well. Wouldn't trade a minute of it.

 

[beenthere]

Great firewood process. Reminds me of my family helping. Some effort to collect the two boys and two girls and some grumbling, but they had a good time when out there in the woods. I did too. Now I do it alone. I cut and split about 6-10 cords to keep at least two and hopefully three years ahead. Takes two years after being cut, split, and stacked under cover to get the moisture out (unless its hickory) for hardwood.

I have 2006-7 wood blocked up, but will split in Sept. when cooler and I have the other summer jobs caught up.

Glad to see your wife with the safety clothes on - hard hat, shield, chaps, ear muffs.